Small things you can do to improve work, why you can't tweak your way to transformation and the need for starting with brutal honesty.
#futureofwork #leadership #change #decrapifywork
Decrapify YOUR work
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Why we need to shift from efficiency to potential, why it seems unlikely, but also where the pioneers are who are giving us hope
#leadership #futureofwork #potential #decrapifywork
Efficiency is not potential
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Why people are disengaged & disconnected from work, the corporate gig as performative and hollow, thoughts on what to do if trapped in it in mid-career.
The Decrapify Newsletter 203
#futureofwork #leadership #purpose #decrapifywork
The corporate gig has changed
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AT&T CEO goes full sociopath; Lord Mark Price goes full cuddly & says people have a right to be happy; why 'leaders' ignore the data and keep doing things that aren't working.
Decrapify Work newsletter no 202
#futureofwork #leadership #happiness #decrapifywork
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We take less holiday than medieval peasants, why work's not as important as you think and why you need rest to perform at your best (obvs, innit?)
Decrapify Work No. 201
#futureofwork #leadership #holidays #decrapifywork
More Sun, Less Scroll
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Recruitment as an example of a broken process, contradictions and disconnects, rational responses to the corporate madness and dealing with the damage
Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter #198
#futureofwork #leadership #decrapifywork
You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Fascism as a management philosophy (no, really!), chaos monkeys, the 'Infinite Workday' and the latest Work Punks episode.
The Decrapify Work newsletter 197
#futureofwork #leadership #AI #DecrapifyWork
CEO as Supreme Leader open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Why leading and leadership are different, RTO mandates lead to CEO exits (Boo Hoo!), and a thoroughly inappropriate use of AI (no, I don't mean porn).
The Decrapify Work Newsletter no 196
#futureofwork #leadership #AI #decrapifywork
Leading or Leadership? open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Why organisations should not ignore the lived experiences of their employees; learning 'craft' in the AI age; age-old truths still apply, even to AI.
The Decrapify Work Newsletter No 194
#futureofwork #leadership #selfknowledge #decrapifywork
Ancient Wisdom open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Unfathomable icons, pigeon holes, Mandy Rice-Davies and AI, and how this tech stuff is 'helping'. Why we get the future wrong.
The Decrapify Work Newsletter no 191
#futureofwork #leadership #AI #DecrapifyWork
The view from here open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
The simple way to decrapify work, Michelin's 8 guiding principles, the real reasons bosses don't do any of this and my new substack.
The Decrapify Work Not Newsletter no 191
#futureofwork #leadership #decrapifywork
Simple but hard open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Alpha male hustle culture, Meta's layoff cruelty, will there be a backlash and is the USA throwing away its leadership of business practices?
Warning: may contain Dad jokes
The Decrapify Work Not-Newseltter no 189
#futureofwork #leadership #culture #decrapifywork
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The duality facing us about AI, how it's damaging companies, adding to cognitive load and perhaps being applied to the wrong things.
The decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 188
#futureofwork #leadership #AI #decrapifywork
The AI conundrum open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
A frankly startling set of values, the secret to happy employees that will blow your socks off, how this chaos might have a silver lining and why are jobs so crap?
The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 187
#futureofwork #leadership #values #decrapifywork
Unbelievable open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Why being nice is taking a knife to a gun-fight, why the worse people to lead end up in charge, why we need to stop the bastards winning ... basically, the one where Colin loses it a bit.
#futureofwork #leadership #truth #decrapifywork
Straight Talking open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
About how COVID changed work forever because it changed us. Now we know other ways are possible, the old way is just about control and the deal isn't worth it anymore.
The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter no 184
#futureofwork #leadership #hybrid #decrapifywork
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People's lives are being ruined by this 'productivity' theatre, why those in charge ignore the evidence, 'disruption' is not cool and why this won't work.
The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 183
#futureofwork #leadership #productivity #decrapifywork
Upset and Angry open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Hypernormalisation, corporate fantasy world, how corporates have dropped the mask and why Gen Z could be canaries in the coalmine.
The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 182
#futureofwork #leadership #trust #decrapifywork
Making sense of non-sense open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
It turns out I don't have a downer on big organisations, they really are that bad and they don't even bother hiding it anymore, dumping DEI & policing language. And why we put up with it.
The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 181
#leadership #ethics #decrapifywork
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'Moral Mazes', how playing the game means more than doing the job, why the wrong people get to the top of hierarchies and how it's all driven by human nature
The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter no 180
#futureofwork #leadership #management #decrapifywork
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Chaos as a management style; courts, kings and the inter-regnum; your chaos is my complicated.
The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter no 179
#futureofwork #leaderships #management #decrapifywork
Chaos monkeys open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
THAT Work from Home BBC documentary, bifurcation, Employment is Dead (maybe), Deep Seek and how politics is at the bottom of it all.
The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 178
#futureofwork #leadership #AI #DecrapifyWork
Work, Tech, Politics open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
A healthy dollop of AI scepticism: the problems of getting people to use tech, how solutions create new problems & why growth from AI might not be transformational.
The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter no 177
#futureofwork #leadership #AI #decrapifywork
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A quick scurry through systems thinking and points of leverage; how this helps understand the best ways to decrapify work; and explain the tension behind the RTO/WFH bunfight
#futureofwork #leadership #systemsthinking #decrapifywork
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Flying cars, GIGO, why how we learn about the world stops us imagining the future, why we need Pirates 🏴☠️ and problems with AI. It's not what you think it's going to be.
The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 173
#futureofwork #leadership #AI #decrapifywork
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Not talking about AI, RTO, data scandals in academia, Gen Z attitudes to work, & irrational & rational behaviours. And why we need to talk about workplace trauma.
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The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 171
#futureofwork #leadership #trauma #decrapifywork
About the need to see two perspectives at once; Tactical & Strategic; Self and System; Micro & Macro; and McGlichrist's ideas on left and right brain hemispheres (The Master and the Emmisary).
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#futureofwork #leadership #selfawareness #decrapifywork
