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Well over 1,000 participants joined in live for my Coaching.com session, “The Permissionless Organization Has Arrived.” Many asked wonderful questions that we didn’t have time to get to in the session. Here are a select few with some responses.
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We’ve been talking a lot about bubbles this month. An economic bubble happens when the market assigns a value to an asset that is disconnected from its true economic value. Mortgage CDO’s. Tulips. Dotcoms. You get the idea.
Two that we have been looking at are the...
As economist Carlota Perez so eloquently lays out, systemic changes in technologies always lead to systemic changes in society. The winners in an old regime become the losers in a new one. With many predicting that the AI revolution will democratize access to expertise, what changes might we...
Paul LeBlanc, in his thought-provoking book “Broken,” shows how scaling removes humanity from many of our systems of care. AI might be the great unlock that would allow us to flood our systems with quality people, uplift them, and set the stage for a new era of human thriving. But...
“The Children of Men” is a dystopian 1992 novel by P. D. James about a world in 2021 when humanity is experiencing mass infertility. While we seem to have so far avoided such a dramatic fate, populations seem set to drop in countries across the world, with results that are sure to be...
For humans to create high-performing teams, traditional assumptions are that it takes a long time and goes through a predictable process (forming, storming, norming and performing). But in many of today’s most vital activities, time is short, norms need to be created instantly and...
Much of the user excitement in the early years of the Internet came from the medium’s powerful way in which it eliminated constraints on human communication. You could find your friend from high school, let the world know about an irritating customer experience, become well-known, and...
When inflated beliefs about future value come into conflict with actual underlying value, conditions are right to create a bubble. Housing prices will always go up! Having a dot.com in your name will always increase value! If you can get to scale, you’ll win the digital battle! If you...
The concept of purpose has been having quite a moment – from books heralding its importance to claims that it holds the key to the hearts and minds of Gen Z workers to claims from consultants that we can “unleash the power of organizational purpose to transform productivity and...
After 8 years since founding Valize, 4 changes of software approaches, more than 50 iterations of my Columbia Executive Education program “Leading Strategic Growth and Change” and 5 books, the software designed to make managing the innovation process easier and more transparent is...
Some things in strategy are thought to be eternally valuable. Among them? Big global brands with years of mass-market advertising and great name recognition behind them. But as investors 3G and Warren Buffett have learned, advantages can erode without investment. Exhibit A: ...
Some additional thoughts from the Powershift conference that took place in February in California – guests included artists, business leaders and even some legends (hello, Ed Catmull of Pixar fame)! This post touches on Peter Sims’ new book “BLK SHP: How to be Human in an...
What do you do when your most visible and notable spokesperson basically declares that what you’re doing is ineffective? We’re about to find out how WW (formerly Weight Watchers) navigates.
The rise of Weight Watchers and America’s diet culture
Peter Sims, author of the new book “Black Sheep: The Quest to be Human in an Inhuman Time” regularly convenes a group of artists, thought leaders, inventors, and authors to chat about how we might spark a human, artistic renaissance in America. Here are some ideas that...
The old recipes for making a firm a talent factory have eroded. Executive development programs provided formal training specific to organizational levels, and employees were expected to remain with their organizations for long careers. Today, tenures are getting shorter, there are fewer...
