Listen here…. A great conversation with Aidan McCullen, a gig mindsetter himself!

A collective, speculative view of our lives 20 years from now. I’m preparing a website and podcast about our future in 20 years. My research includes seeking input from people around the world. (Survey link at the bottom) Imagine ourselves in 2043…. The survey has 14 questions, and covers a range of topics. For each topic, I ask you to place a cursor between two…

“Each big idea is an operating system upgrade.” From Kat, a character from Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. She says we have the same brains as people did a thousand years ago: “We have the same hardware, but not the same software.” A big new idea is like…

Gig mindset work cultures are forerunners of work organizations where fear does not dominate. Our fearless flyer in the photo, Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the “flying man”. He was the first person to show that flying a craft “heavier than air” was possible. His work was described along with photos in newspapers and…

I want to talk about a term we throw around too easily: future-proofing. We can learn from legacy companies that were leaders in the past and are still leaders today. I co-authored a book in 1996 called l’Avantage internet pour l’entreprise (in French) where I identified leaders in their industries. A few are still leaders today, three or more decades later. …

You can influence change from inside an organization or from outside. The perspectives and approaches differ. My focus today is on how you can influence change as an insider. It is based on what I’ve seen and what many clients have shared with me over past years. I’ll write about…

Communication role must evolve or disappear Is the Communication function still relevant? The question reminds me of reading Alan Rusbridger’s 2018 book Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now. Editor of The Guardian for 20 years– he was involved in some of the critical, defining moments in journalism. He says the following: “Journalists no longer stand on a…

Birth of the Icehotel Gareth Morgan published Images of Organization in 1986, over three decades ago. It was considered to be ground-breaking because it was an overview of organizational design that, through the mechanism of metaphors, was comprehensible far beyond the academic world. …

Inside Outsiders This article is a short take based on input from my 2021 gig mindset survey. I conducted two surveys, one in 2018 and the second in 2021, the second deliberately looking to see how the workplace had changed during these critical years. Qualifier: The question of what changed…