And in this case, being self-management. <Not easy to find an image on being (loads of yoga pictures) and self-management (loads of usual corporate or hustle-like images). So this will have to do.> And onto the story of a small but ridiculously ambitious and determined group of people (nicknamed Transformers…

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m into subversion. I’ve declared an interest in anarchy and anarchic systems. I’m absolutely devoted (yes, that strong) to the concept of self-managed systems and the subversion — there it is — of the hierarchy. Let me start with a musical reference that came to me…

PTHR 10-Year Anniversary Speech Friends, collaborators, clients. Lend me your hearts. For this is a speech all about love. But first, there’s a cool tool online that converts word count to speech time. So please bear with me for 21.4 minutes. I’ll start this speech in perhaps an unusually sad…

It’s Thursday, 29th September 2022. I’m just off to Brighton to do a pre-dinner keynote (30 minutes tops including some observations and questions) and rather ambitiously, I’m to talk about a new era. The dawning of a new way (a model’s there for sure) for how the People Profession —…

I’m not even sure I should write a blog post being only somewhat through a COVID-19 recovery. After 2.5 years of avoiding infection, I tested positive on Friday morning. And sadly, I infected at least 2 other people I know of and came into contact with. But something’s coming back…

Yes. I’ve gone away from single word # hashtag-led blog post titles. Because one word cannot sum up the 3 aspects I wanted to write about in this one. Shocking news from the NY Times feature on Gravity Payments’ Dan Price. Or that should be the now resigned-from-Gravity Payments Price…

There’s a feature doing the rounds now — built on research as best we can have it in our emerging experiments with remote-based knowledge working — that posits some really interesting factors about remote working. I did think “do we need another post on this?” but some work this week…

When we use this word — and it’s a really powerful and emotive word — we are often associating it with something pretty negative and stark. A bias against someone, something — often based on unconscious bias, and how we might, unwittingly or willingly, be off the mark in how…

ESG. Environmental Social and Governance has appeared in the lexicon of business life as the evolved version of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). The Harvard Law School on Corporate Governance states it all here, like this: The Fundamentals of ESG ESG grew out of investment philosophies clustered around sustainability and, thereafter, socially responsible investing. Early…