“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…

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…