{*} The AI narrator, employee view: Here are your tasks for the day. Ten items. Skill match 83%. All ten fall within your skill zone with the balance sitting in your comfort zone. You were…
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What Should Work Look Like Next?
People don’t know what work should look like next, but everyone has a slide deck about it. Here are a few models worth thinking about, some real, some hypothetical, and some slightly absurd. — Maximize…
Two People, One Title
Walk into most organizations, and you’ll often find two people with the same title doing completely different work. They’ll have the same job description and appear at the same level on the org chart. But…
The Scorecard Trap
When things feel uncertain, we start measuring everything. Not because we know what matters, but because measuring feels like knowing. It’s the illusion of control dressed up in a spreadsheet. “If we can measure it,…
Your structure
I once had an office that overlooked the construction site of a 30-story building. Over a period of 18 months, I watched the clearing of the site; the excavation to the bedrock; the pouring of…
Open and transparent
People and organizations often describe themselves as being open and transparent. Social media enables one to see facets of a person or an organization, but not always the whole. The mind creates an image of…