The 4th industrial revolution holds a wealth of opportunities for the businesses and the people in them that are able to find new ways to create value in this economy. However, we are also facing a huge risk to our ability to rise to the challenge: burnout. It’s on theContinue Reading
At the beginning of 2019 I read an article on a website called Raptitude – it explains the benefits that the author David Cain experienced when he completed a ‘Depth Year“. During this year, instead of acquiring lots of new hobbies, or consuming lots of new things, he would goContinue Reading
This Christmas I’m giving myself an unusual gift: a screen free holiday season. It may seem hypocritical as a strategist with an interest in makes people behave in different ways to take a sudden interest in screen dodging, but hear me out: Oh no! Not another digital detox post! I’veContinue Reading
ManpowerGroup’s global career and talent development arm has come out strongly in favour of increasing ‘career mobility’ following the publication of its study, which found that 20% of employees are stuck in the wrong role, doing work they are neither motivated by, engaged with or productive in. The study, byContinue Reading
The launch of the Social Mobility Employer Index marked an exciting evolution in the world of work; one in which employers begin to develop detailed, systemic metrics – set either by the industry or internally within the business – that track exactly how effective their inclusion initiatives are in creatingContinue Reading
I had coffee with someone I really respect last week – his name is Eb Adeyeri. He has recently moved to a new company that on the face of it, looks entirely different to his previous one. Not only in terms of corporation type, but also job title. As youContinue Reading
There have been a number of interesting topic cropping up from voices exploring the intersection between the future of work and the future of learning, so I have decided to start pulling what I see as the highlights together in a blog called posts of the month. The aim isContinue Reading
Imagine the challenge. You’re a 15 year-old from a disadvantaged background with no established networks, but a desire to break into an industry that is highly reliant on them. Like publishing or advertising agencies. You could theoretically look at LinkedIn, but this requires you to create an online CV listingContinue Reading
So it happened: workplace 2020 is only 2.5 years away – a blink of an eye in terms of how futurists see things. This is what came to mind after seeing the much discussed article about the 10 skills needed to survive the Fourth Industrial Revolution, initially published in JanuaryContinue Reading
Last weekend, it seemed that social media feeds were awash with people celebrating their experience at an event hosted by motivational speaker and businessman Tony Robbins called Unleash the Power Within. Looking at this year’s event from the outside, most of the images looked like this: What was interesting aboutContinue Reading