In some ways, companies face a similar challenge. Senior leaders like to imagine that they are in charge of all the levers of change. When their CEO announces a big new strategy to the market, they work with their teams to put an execution plan in place. But after a few months it often becomes apparent that the promised transformation is not going according to plan. Delays, re-scheduled meetings, excuses—but secretly, no one at the organisation is really surprised.
Living on the road is like living in a city, albeit a very unusual one. When you spend enough time waking up in one country, and falling asleep in another — the boundaries blur. Countries become like neighbourhoods, separate but strangely interconnected. You don’t have to be a gypsy, a spy or even just a frequent flyer addict like Ryan Bingham to be a global nomad. You just have to spend more than 100 days a year on the move. So if that’s you, you might find this list of 10 survival tips useful.
CATEGORY: Global
There is a point when technology stops being a solution, and instead, becomes a question. Namely, how do you want to live? The tools of the 21st century may afford us the luxury of working anywhere, but how much of our work lives are deliberate decisions as opposed to accumulated accidents? If you started with a clean sheet of paper, how would you design your day? It’s harder than it sounds, and I also quickly learned that there were three things that stood in my way. I ended up calling them the three rules of freedom.
CATEGORY: Leadership
It’s easy to get seduced by the idea of Big Data. Data alone - well, that’s dull conversation fare. But throw in some hype, an adjective and a little capitalization, and you have this year’s big strategic topic. All that aside, there is one thing about this debate that makes it more important than the usual industry fad. Big Data is about Big Business, not just high tech startups.
CATEGORY: Leadership
