In time, the gap between hopeful expectation about their role and the ability to change the world versus the harsh, stifling reality of the corporate environment, sees people either give up and leave or more likely and arguably even worse, give up and stay.
Yearly archives: 2018
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If you’ve had access to content on the internet over the past 10 years and have an interest in technology, all of the predictions below will ring suspiciously familiar and I predict you shall be reading them in some incarnation or other for many years to come
It’s hard to argue with the tangible results of transforming any work function into a practice of some type of Agile process. More things get done and they get done faster. More importantly, new things get done - things that hadn’t yet made their way to unchallenged stale lists now have the space to enter backlogs and a fair chance at being prioritized and that allows any type of knowledge-based team to test and fail and ultimately innovate.
<Reproduced with kind permission from Forbes> With the new models of the phone, Apple had to take another step towards “paying with one’s mind” and decide on the most secure and effective user experience to adapt ApplePay to screens without a thumbprint. What they came up with is a process […]
What’s most concerning is that traditional banks are not the only ones inside the bubble anymore but challengers are heading that was as well.
Having the knowledge to frame a problem with considered, literate wording, the need to continuously and incessantly think of the consumers and ways to make their lives better and do so as if you’re just starting out, with the passion of a start-up founder and the courage of a rapid decision maker is what will delay Amazon’s death not its balance sheet.
<Reproduced with permission from Forbes> “Professionals don’t get emotional” Emotions have long been regarded as a nuisance in the workplace. The ideal professional actor has to always demonstrate an air of cool nonchalance while they show they are utterly logical and supremely cerebral or else they will negatively affect the […]
<Reposted with Permission from Forbes> Organizations – Not By Design We all nod and agree whenever the topic of old dinosaurian organizational structures is mentioned. Everything from homogenous boards and lack of diversity to rampant politics, misguided incentives, a disregard for the new paradigms of the new ways of work, […]
I’ve often written about Banking Superheroes. They were -and in some rare cases still are- the intrapreneurs who, from the deep trenches of a horrendous organisation intent on staying stuck with its proverbially risk averse heels dug deeply in a ground of relative profitability, managed to push and pull the […]
Some of you remember the saga of a few weeks ago where we tried to get a new account for our business. If you don’t, or, if you’re a FinTech masochist and want a reason to feel despondent again you can find it here. I promised this next instalment and […]
This week I am in Sibos in Sydney speaking about a number of things but the topic closest to my heart is the Future of Work and we’re slicing and dicing that on stage in front of nearly 8000 bankers. I fully expect we’ll be unpacking far too little with […]
Why does it matter to stay curious? We lead such immensely busy lives that reading and learning often appear quite the luxury. We do everything at a million miles an hour in a technology highway that pushed the need to achieve more and above all, achieve faster, further up on […]