A few thoughts on hybrid and remote work in 2022

A few thoughts on hybrid and remote work in 2022

This article is worth a read and of course a few of our own impressions. As we move into prediction thinking for 2022(tis the season): 1. Remote work will become a strategic choice. For those of us in software development, and consulting, location has not meant much for some time, but now, being distributed will…

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Physical Power as We Age Stops Falls

Physical Power as We Age Stops Falls

A trainer friend of mine and I had dinner recently. In our mid-fifties, both of us have been focusing on power and strength as a way of maintaining our resilience. He really emphasizes it with his clients as I do with people, I give workouts to.  After we met, I did a little research and…

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Belonging

Belonging

It’s what makes a market, culture or a movement. I’m not sure it’s a precursor to performance but it certainly is an output, and in the process of creating performance, it is both foundational and created from a group striving toward performance, toward meeting a challenge.  It’s simpler to understand and recognize for me than…

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Book: Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

Book: Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami induced some sort of waking dream or nightmare state in this book for me.  The deep vibrant descriptions of bullying torture, too extreme for me to believe, left me feeling both the victim and the abuser.   Because especially with books this vivid about the difficult side of growing up triggers old emotions of…

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Mimetic Desire vs. Hunter Thompson and the Drive to be Unique

Mimetic Desire vs. Hunter Thompson and the Drive to be Unique

Luke Burgis, in his book Wanting,  a  Financial Times best book of 2021, explains the newish perspective of Renee Girard on a very old concept, desire.  Renee Girard, came to the US after WWII and eventually landed at Stanford and formulated a practical theory of how mimetic desire is to psychology what gravity is to…

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Book: “Change” by John Kotter

Book: “Change” by John Kotter

Kotter’s latest book on change is coming at a good time. As I am talking with clients, much of the change we experienced over the last year has not been the end; but the beginning of change. For many companies, while digital technical changes were made or business models disrupted and need new approaches, what…

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