Mindfulness : business betterness or bandwagon?
33 million results when you google “mindfulness”, this buddhist practice is spreading like wild fire, across the globe and coming to your desk soon. Backed by major players young and old: Arianna Huffington, Oprah Winfrey, Jaden and Willow Smith, Boris Johnson and his team at City Hall, the England football team, and businesses like Goldman […]
Any time, any place, any where
“… working the martini way in the technology driven work places of the future.” So fetch me a cocktail while I lounge and strategise in some tropical co-working space so much further east than Shoreditch. Working anytime, any place, in paradise – who wouldn’t want that? The millennials want autonomy, particularly over their time. Flexible working is already a reality, and fluidity in […]
Robot Wars and the end of nice
How would you outwit a robot? Technological singularity is still a long-ish way off, but machines replacing manpower, and computers beating chess champions is well in the past. “By the early 70s, robots were taking over production work that required flexibility and dexterity – cutting, welding, assembling. By the end of the decade, they were flying planes […]