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Cameras off or on in meetings is a flash point for some deep issues.

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I learned this phrase from my son the other day: “better work stories”. it’s a wonderfully philosophical way to deal with adversity.

I saw this picture:

And what is all that hard work floating in? Luck. It lifts all that hard work up to success.

That’s not to deny the necessity of hard work (“the harder I work the luckier I get”) but let’s have some humility from the ones who happened to make it.

In coming years, we will see what patterns emerge in the remote/office mix of hybrid working.

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Let the people doing the work design the work. Let them decide the best hybrid combination of remote and on-premise.

With one proviso:

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So much valuable knowledge work is invisible:

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I had an Organisational Change Manager insist I had to tell him the target operating model for two years out for an IT department undergoing DevOps surgery in response to a spectacular disaster.

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We are passionate about how adaptability isn’t so much about changing how we work,.as about changing how we manage that work to allow it. And managers won’t really change until directed and monitored differently by governors. 

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Those who think about knowledge work love models, preferably drawn as wheels or quadrants. We generate vast numbers of them. They’re not terribly useful.

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Here is a wonderful interview with Frederic Laloux. He has been a huge influence on us at Teal Unicorn (it’s in our name: the concept of “teal” comes from  Laloux’s book Reinventing Organizations, a must read for the 2020s).

I summarise some of the key points of the interview in this post.

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