The Global Mobility Network, a learning network I co-facilitate, discusses a range of topics around global workplace trends. Our most recent session Workplace To Zero? explored why we still need the expensive overhead of offices. Dr Frank Duffy, founder of DEGW, set the scene for the conversation.
Taylorist Buildings
He made the fascinating observation that Taylorist offices [...]

Re-reading a blog post I wrote earlier this year when GM went into bankruptcy, something Yochai Benkler said stopped me in my tracks.
Benkler wrote of GM:
“They monitor people below and incentivise people above”
To my mind, this needs to be exactly the other way around but, like turkeys voting for Christmas, why would senior teams willingly [...]

Or How Twitter Feeds Your Mind

What’s this post about? I am musing on how the blogs and sources I read are rich in parallels, loops and connections. Several articles from this week changed my view on the future of large corporations.

Future Of Higher Education

I was responding earlier this week to an article in Fast [...]