Gosh, this is depressing. What we need to be doing is adapting i.e embracing a more remote first world not trying to push ourselves back into the past. Yes, I know that many miss their status symbols of power, the top floor offices etc ... but this is so flawed in thinking ->
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1413244942428823559
In terms of messaging, in terms of lack of challenge over procurement, in terms of muddled thinking ... I struggle to think of a more hopeless chancellor since ... welll, gosh ... maybe Lawson, that seems an apt comparison.
X : What's wrong with the office?
Me : I've just finished a population study, so I can say with some confidence that the following are the next generation of company behaviours ... however ...
Me : I've just finished a population study, so I can say with some confidence that the following are the next generation of company behaviours ... however ...
... within the data are contraindications i.e. you can't go down the path of leaderless leadership unless you've embraced guiding principles (see Amazon leadership principles - amazon.jobs/en-gb/principl… as an example ) and remote working ...
... the contraindications also appeared in earlier studies i.e. the organisation structure known as pioneer - settler - town planner doesn't seem to work unless you are run by guiding principles. For reference here is a handy list of useful guiding principles ...
... what we need to be doing in the UK is encouraging our organisations to adapt and not return to the past. This is doubly so because of Brexit which should be viewed as an opportunity to adapt, to create that more global trading nation ...
... instead for reasons which I can only explain due to status symbols (top floor offices etc), short term financial concerns (commericial property) and muddled thinking then our chancellor is sending messages that discourages adaptation. This is hopeless.
What is driving the change is industrialisation in social media, collaboration tools and access to data ... it was always going to happen, it's just covid (and the isolation economy it caused) accelerated this. You can fight it for a time but it will eventually overwhelm ...
... that's the power of supply and demand competition which drives the evolution of things which in turn drives the co-evolution of practice. We should be mindful of this and adapting, not seeking the past.
To put it bluntly and heartlessly ... due to the monumental cockup in our handling of COVID (unlike China), we've been more forced into isolation because of the massive number of unecessary deaths. We should turn this to our advantage by embracing more not less remote work ...
... to kill off 150,000 people due to mismanagement and then try to force the country back into the past is ... well, I don't have words to describe how absurdly stupid this is.
X : Why does science fiction ...
Me : Robert Heilein said all roads would be conveyor belts, Asimov had us living in floating cities by now and Arthur C. Clarke had underwater cities .... it's based upon layers of cause and effect prognostications not population studies ...
Me : Robert Heilein said all roads would be conveyor belts, Asimov had us living in floating cities by now and Arthur C. Clarke had underwater cities .... it's based upon layers of cause and effect prognostications not population studies ...
Me : The overwhelming majority of science ficton writing is wrong ... we just write so much of it that occassionaly someone, somewhere gets something right.
X : So, the future is remote robots?
Me : We already have a robot planet.
X : Where?
Me : smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mar…
X : So, the future is remote robots?
Me : We already have a robot planet.
X : Where?
Me : smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mar…
Me : the best way to "predict" the future is to realise that the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Which is why you use population studies to identify new variants in organisations,
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