I’ve been somewhat captivated by, and somewhat incessantly strong in my belief in, self-managed systems of work. The last 2 days with a collaborator of mine’s client (wonderfully shared with me in this case) who is unequivocally establishing self-management in a new venture, from the get-go; and this has affirmed…

I’ve been in what I call “crunch mode” (or to the team People and Transformational HR Ltd.) Beast Mode (with an homage to former footballer Adebayo Akinfenwa). It means I’m deeply in work, with clients and partners, and it’s a tad consuming. It’s all good stuff mind, but there’s an…

I think we’ve underestimated this little word for, perhaps, ever. I mean, what word is more inviting to think, act, do, test, reveal, and deploy than this: “If that’s not worked/going to work, what do we do instead?” I mean, that’s powerful, right? …

“Prove it,” they say Who they are, is immaterial. When something is put to the logical, mental or believable test, proof is paramount. And in a world now littered with spin, “alternate truth” (FFS), and deep-fakes, proof — as a concept and an actuality — is perhaps more elusive than…

As in, a perfect system. Is there such a thing? Could there ever be that? Surely not? OK, I’ll qualify this a little. At a certain point (or points) in time, the system you have will be perfect. It will act in a way that is either (a) Absolutely as…

You might see what I did there. Service-of (to stick with my theme of one-word titled blog posts) and in particular the capitalisation serviCE-Of. CEO. Chief Executive Officer. See, I think we’ve got this CEO thing all wrong. You aren’t all-powerful. You aren’t the arbitrator of all things. You —…

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…