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Davos may be full of leaders, but that doesn’t stop them questioning how their roles could change. The pervading theme this year is of extraordinary change and challenge: ‘ we don’t have a moment to lose’; ‘we have to...
It seems to me that there are 5 questions we should all be asking ourselves about our preparation for the future. All of them in some way resonate with this shift from a Parent to Child relationship at work, to a more balanced ...
Photo: Shanghai by SmokingPermitted I’ve just spent the week in Shanghai and Hong Kong with a team from London Business School, meeting alumni, talking to business people and generally understanding the scene. What is clear i...
In my book The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here, I made the point that the formula for the traditional deal at work is as follows: I work... to earn money... which I use... to consume stuff... which makes me happy. I s...
One of the paradoxes of contemporary business life is that, just as unemployment soars, the number of unfilled vacancies increases. In the USA right now there are over 3 million unfilled jobs, while in countries like Spain, you...
It’s that time of year when I spend much of my time reading the books that have been nominated for the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. It’s a judging duty that is both a pleasure and a pain. The pain is the shee...
It was tough watching parts of London burn a few weeks ago. My son Dominic, who was roaming around Camden on one of the nights, told me that the looters he saw on the streets were intent on breaking into shops to steal Nike tra...
With the publication of my new book The Shift: the future of work is already here - there has been much debate about what it really takes to craft a career that is likely to stand the test of time. In the book I talk a great de...
Teaching a class at London Business School last week for 70 MBA’s and Sloan Fellows on the future of work, I encouraged the students to create vignettes for 2030. This is part of the research I have been directing for the las...
What happens when 70 MBA and Sloan students from the London Business School spend a week talking about the future of work and creating vignettes for a day in the life in 2030? That was the question on my mind last Sunday as I m...