Why Managers MUST be Leaders

Anyone within an organization has the potential to become a leader, but managers MUST be leaders. In schools and in our organizations we have been taught and conditioned to believe that managers and leaders are two separate people which is quite a harmful assumption. As a result we have managers…

Evolving from Knowledge Workers to Learning Workers

During the past few decades we have spent a lot of time talking about knowledge workers and knowledge work. However today knowledge is nothing more than a commodity and to be the smartest guy in the room all you need access to is a…

Work as we know it, is dead

I don’t mean that work doesn’t exist and that we should all just drop what we are doing and quit our jobs, in fact, far from it. When I say “Work as we know it is dead,” I’m specifically referring to the assumption that employees are cogs, managers are slave-drivers, and work is…

Is Email going to Die?

In this episode of the Future in Five, I talk about the future of Email and whether it’s going to go away forever. The complete elimination of email is highly unlikely, at least for the foreseeable future, however some companies are embarking on a journey to do just that, at least for…

Are Hierarchies Evil ?

In this episode of the Future in Five, I share my views about hierarchy and whether it’s a necessary evil. Many companies around the world are trying to “flatten” their structure but there should be some balance between being “flat” and “hierarchical.” I call this creating a “flatter”…