It’s been a little while since I’ve read any work related books, so I purchased ‘Apirationally Idle – A fresh approach to digital leadership’. Might have been inspired by being absolutely flat out since we returned to work from the Christmas break. A modicum of idleness is very appealing. – https://aspirationallyidle.sumupstore.com/product/aspirationally-idle-book
We are well into the hype curve at the moment, but there could be some useful applied uses of the technology. The last point, and I know it’s not exciting, is governance. “when it’s ok to use AI tools, when to absolutely not, when to be cautious (and who to escalate the question to)” – https://interconnected.org/home/2023/12/08/ai-pathfinding
I’m very much in agreement with Dave Briggs thoughts here on AI. There’s a potential use case, but there’s far too much hype around at the moment, which is somewhat aimed at causing FOMO amongst anyone with some money looking to invest. It’s sensible to be cautious. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. – https://digileaders.com/countering-the-ai-hype/
This approach to colour coding people based on frequency of office presence makes me want to throw things. Does nothing to quantify the quality of work when people are in the office, just whether they are there. – https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/08/dell_return_office/
Small revelation. Sometimes you need a play a specific role in a discussion to ensure there’s some healthy challenge or debate.
Good leadership is sometimes about clearly articulating an overall direction of travel so that people can see how best to contribute. Sometimes it’s also helping people let go of stuff, either temporarily or permenantly. “What can we stop doing?” probably doesn’t get asked enough. Do we all get a bit addative by default? More isn’t always more. I always liked the gardening analogy of careful pruning to enable things to thrive.
