Reading Time: 7 minute/s excluding links. Peter Drucker first observed in a 1992 essay for Harvard Business Review that our great transformation to a society of knowledge workers would be completed by 2010 or 2020. Unfortunately organisations still struggle to optimise performance by recognising and enabling the key requirements of knowledge work laid out by Drucker 25 years ago: Our multi-sourced […]
Reading Time: 3 minute/s excluding links. A short series attempting to decode hybrid workplace jargon to foster a more nuanced discussion on future work capabilities, workstyles and workplace in a post-pandemic world. Part 2 “B is for Behaviour” focuses on need for purposeful design to support value-adding Future of Work (FOW) behaviours and capabilities. How vs Where Work Should be […]
Reading Time: 3 minute/s excluding links. ‘The ABC’s of workplace’ is a short series attempting to decode hybrid workplace jargon to foster a more nuanced discussion on future work capabilities, workstyles and workplace in a post-pandemic world. Part 1 “A is for Agency” focuses on the choice vs control tug-of-war between employees and employers. Choice and control – or choice […]
Reading Time: 5 minute/s excluding links. Want an office like Google? Think again! Copycat offices don’t work any more than copycat cultures do! The open plan office versus closed debate rages on, and rather than running out of steam in the face of evidence and reasoned argument by many industry thought-leaders, it seems to have nine lives! New Tech offices seem […]