This is about the tension of loving the work and people I worked with but hating the organisation and people I worked for - and losing sight of the balance of the two. A cautionary tale about why you need to connected to your feelings and value your wellbeing. open.substack.com/pub/survivin...

The middle management sponge , why where complexity sits is key to any org design, the simple principles behind alternatives to hierarchy and how we value speed of response over quality. The Decrapify Work Newsletter 214 #futureofwork #leadership open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

This is a substack post about how the Corporate world is full of dangers but we mistake it as a benign place and suffer consequently. This is a draft of the first chapter of my ‘Corporate Survival Guide’ project. To read more, subscribe to 'Surviving Corporate'. open.substack.com/pub/survivin...

The reasons why our views on the future of work will always be wrong but it's worth having them anyway because that's how we find the good stuff; and why we can hope for a better one (future, that is). Decrapify Work Newsletter 213 #futureofwork #leadership open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

Yeah but he still got to steal all the data.

How to not say no.

What on earth is wrong with this man?

In which I discuss Gary Hamel's views on leaders and managers, traits of leaders, the need to change the system and what those changes might be. I give him 7 out of 10. Oh, and why you need to be a pirate! 🏴‍☠️ Decrapify Work Newsletter 212 #futureofwork #leadership open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

Me too

I just want it on the record that I was fucking furious at Johnson's incompetence and arrogance at the time he fatally delayed lockdowns, I'm still fucking furious and I'm even more furious he's being paid money for his opinions rather than sharing them with his aggressive cell mate.

Farage et al really mustn't be allowed to walk away from this scandal, and its wider implications: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to ‪@electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...

What was unacceptable is now the norm as it obliterates guardrails and stomps over everyone; Musk's $1T middle finger to us all; what's coming to tech workers and the rest of us as they turn the screw even harder; why we must come together to fight back open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

Daniel Hannan was born in Peru.

Anyway, stoked to see how the political tendency that has spent decades cutting mental health funding, advocating for driverless trains and mocking attempts to ban big knives deals with a train driver and guard’s swift action helping end a mentally ill man’s rampage with a big knife.

This. A thousand times this.

So a virtually brand new news site can cover this story, which is of national importance, but the BBC and our msm remain silent?They’re not just silent they’re now complicit in a cover up of a foreign intelligence agency penetrating a UK political party. This needs to be spread widely.

This is brilliant. Guaranteed to make you smile.

Great @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @samfr.bsky.social. However, Sam said that people saying ‘what about Gaza?’ In response to his post is a form of antisemitism and I didn’t understand that. (I think it’s crass and wouldn’t say it. Btw) That’s a problem if the meaning gets blurred and confusing.

Small things you can do to improve work, why you can't tweak your way to transformation and the need for starting with brutal honesty. #futureofwork #leadership #change #decrapifywork Decrapify YOUR work open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

Excellent work. Hilarious.

They are all deluded. If he wasn't so rich, people would be having him sedated for his own protection.

This is an excellent book, a stellar bargain for 99p!

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

This ‘radical left’ Nigel - is it in the room with us now? Can you point to it?

The sooner the better.

"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.

Why we need to shift from efficiency to potential, why it seems unlikely, but also where the pioneers are who are giving us hope #leadership #futureofwork #potential #decrapifywork Efficiency is not potential open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

This is a truth that has been staring us in the face. The thugs who turned up in London on Saturday would be racists in any time, and plenty of rich people support them (notably, the richest of them all)

Why people are disengaged & disconnected from work, the corporate gig as performative and hollow, thoughts on what to do if trapped in it in mid-career. The Decrapify Newsletter 203 #futureofwork #leadership #purpose #decrapifywork The corporate gig has changed open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

Both enabled by Trump, who is losing control of these situations and weakening by the minute. Can anyone stop escalation?

This

Most tube drivers (80%) are working because they belong to ASLEF. Few of those on strike are drivers, RMT staff are mostly station and signal staff, who earn considerably less than the £60 grand plus that drivers do. But you wouldn’t know that from the news media, who are either lazy or lying.

“Unless we act we could see deaths in this country running at several thousand a day,” said Boris Johnson as he forced the nation into lockdown for the second time. A day later he hosted a secret dinner for the Tory peer who funded a lavish refurbishment of his Downing Street flat

AT&T CEO goes full sociopath; Lord Mark Price goes full cuddly & says people have a right to be happy; why 'leaders' ignore the data and keep doing things that aren't working. Decrapify Work newsletter no 202 #futureofwork #leadership #happiness #decrapifywork open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

Now this is a tax return that I would be very, very keen on seeing. Do feel free to give it a share. www.change.org/p/urge-nigel...

I've a feeling Mr Farage might very much be regretting his trip... round about ... Now 👇

Apparently “leading” lawyers and “experts” say that the Good Friday Agreement is no obstacle to UK leaving ECHR. Me, being neither, merely sets out what the Good Friday Agreement expressly says. davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...

The victimhood is strong in these people, isn’t it?

We take less holiday than medieval peasants, why work's not as important as you think and why you need rest to perform at your best (obvs, innit?) Decrapify Work No. 201 #futureofwork #leadership #holidays #decrapifywork More Sun, Less Scroll open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

My 200th edition! A reflection on what hasn't changed since I started, why I think Decrapify Work resonates with people even though I've never defined it, how work demands so much more but delivers far less, and some thoughts on the changing context of work. open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

Some have said the Epstein list controversy won’t damage Trump long term, he’ll have concocted another headline-grabbing distraction in a day or two. I’m not so sure. Cracks are appearing in his unholy alliance. It’s not the end but it could be the beginning of the end.

An optimistic look at work. Change happens as generations hand over control, the status quo stops working and other crises hit us (as they do regularly). Our job is to have the ideas ready. Decrapify Work No. 199 #futureofwork #leadership Keeping the flame alive open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

Recruitment as an example of a broken process, contradictions and disconnects, rational responses to the corporate madness and dealing with the damage Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter #198 #futureofwork #leadership #decrapifywork You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

If it seems to good to be true, then it probably is ...

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Fascism as a management philosophy (no, really!), chaos monkeys, the 'Infinite Workday' and the latest Work Punks episode. The Decrapify Work newsletter 197 #futureofwork #leadership #AI #DecrapifyWork CEO as Supreme Leader open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

Why leading and leadership are different, RTO mandates lead to CEO exits (Boo Hoo!), and a thoroughly inappropriate use of AI (no, I don't mean porn). The Decrapify Work Newsletter no 196 #futureofwork #leadership #AI #decrapifywork Leading or Leadership? open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...

Goodhart is suggesting talking to people at bus stops in London. What a psychopath! As any proper Londoner knows, you either stare directly ahead or down at your phone. Preferably with headphones on. On no account do you speak to others.

How to solve employee engagement, the forces of crapification and everyday crap, and how we could use AI to make work better (but probably won't). The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 195 #futureofwork #leadership #bureaucracy #decrapifyworkKeeping it real open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...