Tag: management

Nick Law: Deep Simplicity – Designing our Way Out of Complexity

While the internet has created infinite opportunities, it has also created chaos. Solving this complexity crisis is a design problem.
Liveblog: Nick Law on the need for Deep Simplicity in marketing and design

By Adam Tinworth

We're surrounded by complexity, and we crave simplicity. But shallow simplicity satisfies nobody. You need to understand the complexity to deliver products and services with deep simplicity, says Nick Law.
Hybrid work and security: embracing a whole new system

By Adam Tinworth

Any company is a complex system, and when you change the operating model of that system, new problems emerge. We’re facing a whole new security risk model.
Pa Sinyan: what managers in hybrid companies need to understand

By Adam Tinworth

When colleagues aren’t in the same building, you can’t rely on accidental leadership to keep a team motivated and focused. Gallup’s Pa Sinyan outlines the skills you need to manage a hybrid workplace.
The rise of leadership and the demise of management

By Martin Recke

The digital revolution sparks change, demands more leadership and less management, and enables a shift to focus on the human being.
You need to learn to live — and manage — in an age of chaos

By Adam Tinworth

Times of chaos challenge traditional management thinking. But you can survive — and thrive — by changing your thinking, and adapting your business.
Tricia Wang: Why corporate “innovation” doesn’t work — and how to fix it.

By Adam Tinworth

Companies aren’t bad at innovation; they’re bad at making good decisions about that innovation. Tricia Wang explains how to make better decisions.
Uber’s crisis: digital growing pains laid bare

By Adam Tinworth

Uber has had a rough month, losing its CEO and a board member. But these growing pains might be a necessary part of making a disruptive startup into a sustainable business.
[Liveblog] The Business Romantic, or fighting algorithms with mystery

By Adam Tinworth

Tim Leberecht, the business romantic Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and howling crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the first 48 hours after publication What would the romantics make of “you can only manage what you measure”. Or Uber’s surge pricing during a terrorist…
The (useful) Path to honest failure

By Adam Tinworth

Path has "failed" - and has been sold to a Korean company. Kevin Rose - an investor in it - thinks we should acknowledge this.
Apple: crippling competitors with infrastructure

By Adam Tinworth

Apple doensn't just out-innovate competitors - it blindsides them, and uses its cash to lock them out.
Startup thinking: building businesses fit for the new normal

By Adam Tinworth

Are we trying to manage 21st Century businesses with the management thinking of the 1800s? NEXT 14 speaker Lee Bryant thinks so - and he has solutions.
Solving the corporate digital problem

By Adam Tinworth

How can corporates resist disruption and adapt to changing times? They need someone new in the boardroom…
Ballmer’s exit: he was the wrong man, playing the wrong game

By Adam Tinworth

The inevitable has happened: Steve Ballmer is exiting Microsoft, which is a fading giant in the technology game. Has he poisoned the well for his successor?
Harper Reed: how to build teams, practice failure and learn to listen.

By Adam Tinworth

The man who was CTO for Obama's 2012 election campaign brings us the most important lessons from their 18 months building victory.
Like a shark, disruption comes from below…

By Adam Tinworth

Why does disruption not get taken seriously until it's too late? Because it's cheap…
Could Marissa Mayer’s reign at Yahoo! mark the beginning of the Googlification of business?

By Adam Tinworth

Marissa Mayer is the first prominent Google executive to up sticks and take her skills to the top of a major company. Could this be the start of a diaspora that will reshape business?
Is the IT department the barrier to becoming a Post Digital company?

By Adam Tinworth

Forbes has argued that every company is now a software company to some degree. But how many companies are ready to enter the digital era and stop treating digital devices as something to be managed and controlled?

Tag: management

Nick Law: Deep Simplicity – Designing our Way Out of Complexity

Liveblog: Nick Law on the need for Deep Simplicity in marketing and design

Hybrid work and security: embracing a whole new system

Pa Sinyan: what managers in hybrid companies need to understand

The rise of leadership and the demise of management

You need to learn to live — and manage — in an age of chaos

Tricia Wang: Why corporate “innovation” doesn’t work — and how to fix it.

Uber’s crisis: digital growing pains laid bare

[Liveblog] The Business Romantic, or fighting algorithms with mystery

The (useful) Path to honest failure

Apple: crippling competitors with infrastructure

Startup thinking: building businesses fit for the new normal

Solving the corporate digital problem

Ballmer’s exit: he was the wrong man, playing the wrong game

Harper Reed: how to build teams, practice failure and learn to listen.

Like a shark, disruption comes from below…

Could Marissa Mayer’s reign at Yahoo! mark the beginning of the Googlification of business?

Is the IT department the barrier to becoming a Post Digital company?