‘Hidden workers’ – those unemployed or underemployed seeking work who are not visible because of companies’ hiring processes – are a massive lost opportunity to society as well as business. An incisive Harvard Business School study points to over 27 million US workers (no doubt the scope is similar in other nations) whose capabilities are […]
I was recently interviewed on the Sunrise breakfast TV program on the next phase of video calling, which will shift to far more immersive technologies.
Driven by frustration with the Spotify algorithm I have just posted an Idea Submission on the Spotify community website titled Introduce a serendipity dial. What I wrote is copied below, click on the link and vote it up if you like it!
We’ve come a long way this year. Currently over 50% of Americans, close to 60% of Western Europeans, and 24% of the global population have been fully vaccinated against COVID. Every day around one in 200 people in the world receives a vaccination. Of course this does not portend the end of COVID. This is […]
An article in Sydney Morning Herald today, What we do now that will be unfathomable by 2050, looks at what we might not be able to imagine about our lives today. The piece quotes me on cars and parking:
I recently was interviewed by Christina Gerakiteys for SingularityU Australia’s podcast series Inspire for Impact in a very enjoyable conversation. You can listen to the half hour episode here: Zen, Improvisation and Collaborative Value. The premise of the podcast is asking for 5 points of inspiration for impact in my life. I chose to speak […]
My book Living Networks was dedicated to “all those wonderful people in the world who are bringing the networks to life with their energy and passion”. It is of course now abundantly clear that networks are the underlying structure of business and society. Seminal social networks (in their pre-digital sense) pioneer Ron Burt proposed the […]
I have been thinking and writing about the rise of virtual professional service firms for over two decades, since my first book. Professional services are, by definition, delivered by experienced professionals. While there are significant reasons for teams of professionals creating value for clients to be co-located, they very often are not, even in traditional […]
The US National Intelligence Council has been using scenario methdologies to look into the future since the 1990s. Today they released the 7th edition of their Global Trends report, examining the risks and challenges of the next 20 years. Below I have selected some visual highlights from the 156 page report that distill some of […]
