Questions for a Future Employer
An interview is a crossroad, one at which you are making a choice between merely seeking a job and wage or using the opportunity to grow a career.
Inner Circle
Business & Strategy
Analysis of strategy, competition, and organisational coherence, drawing on classical strategy, contemporary practice, and scepticism toward fashionable frameworks.
53 essays
Response: Why PI Planning is like a wolf in sheep’s clothing
When PI Planning is deployed by leaders who have the nuance, skill, and strategic capability to deliver an Agile project with a multi-year roadmap, PI Planning is an invaluable framework for program delivery.
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Responsibility, Ownership, Accountability
These are words we use often in an organisational context, but words that are seldom discussed; and when discussed, often done so opaquely or inaccurately.
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Response: Sitting with Ambiguity
Sit with ambiguity, but be aware of when a seemingly circular conversation is enhancing a definitional understanding and when it is just a group of individuals unable to comprehend ambiguity hoping that a drawn out conversation will nail down the problem.
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Polywork, A New Professional Network
I have often thought that an individual is far more than their job title or pay scale. Which means that even in a professional networking context, your portfolio of experience should also include your experiences.
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Bitcoin’s Dirty Little Secrets - Political
In praxis, the result for Bitcoin is that the ideological claims for a decentralised, government free, anonymous currency has given way to the ‘worse-is-better’ ideology of why most people seem to be dumping cash into crypto: to get rich and live the capitalist high life.
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Five Stages of Autonomy
At this stage, employees, whether remote or in an office, enjoy true autonomy. The Nirvana Mullenweg and Co. are in search of for their businesses.
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Patagonia Traditional CSR, Strategic CSR or CSV
CSR only has a limited connection to the business while CSV is 'integral to a company’s profitability and competitive position.'
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