by Guy | May 12, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Productivity, Technology, Work Life Balance, Working From Home
Reading Seth Godin’s blog post this morning really got me thinking: in this “new normal” are we paying for productivity or wasted time? Since the Industrial Revolution, people have been generally paid for a job – doing something in a central place for a number of...
by Guy | Apr 14, 2021 | Leadership, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Excellence, Growth, HR & Personnel, Lifestyle, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Productivity, Technology, Work Life Balance, Working From Home
One thing has become clear during the past year of lockdowns and other measures associated with the pandemic: Working From Home (WFH), or, as it is increasingly becoming known, Working From Anywhere (WFA) is going to be very much a feature of the “New Normal” business...
by Guy | Apr 12, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Growth, Investing, Strategy, Technology
While most changes to business models are incremental, we should always be looking to see how we can make our existing model obsolete by replacing it with something new. Incremental changes are, of course, much easier to copy and so any such changes will only give you...
by Guy | May 21, 2013 | Business - General, Cities, Leadership, Productivity, Strategy, Technology, Working From Home
The first in this series of posts looked at how technology advances are enabling location independence for people at work, and the second looked at some of the socio-economic impacts of this move. In fact, the changes are potentially even more...
by Guy | Apr 12, 2013 | Business - General, Cities, Economy, Lifestyle, Productivity, Strategy, Technology, Working From Home
The previous post showed how technology is enabling location independence for the workforce for the first time since the Industrial Revolution created the need for urbanisation. Smart devices, such as smartphones and powerful tablets, are providing people with...
by Guy | Apr 5, 2013 | Business - General, Cities, Lifestyle, Productivity, Strategy, Technology, Working From Home
There’s a revolution under way that is gaining momentum, and yet doing so in a way that although we scarcely notice the changes from day-to-day, when we look back a few years we can see they’re enormous. This revolution is in the way we work and live. Ten years ago,...