Barry Flack
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Fixing work and following the Hoops.
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Cultural Readiness Assessment
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If AI kills tasks, old management must die. đ
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Stop paving cow paths with AI. Fix the road first. | Barry Flack
Stop paving cow paths with AI. Fix the road first.
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7 months ago
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New Post : In defence of Mastery
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7 months ago
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Employee engagement surveys are expensive theatre. Stop the performance. Kill the consultants peddling happiness metrics. Bin the surveys that measure nothing useful. Fix the broken systems that make work frustrating.
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â ď¸ Doom mongering is back in vogue it seems. But the very best SMEs are using regulatory changes to build out better workplaces. Stop yer greetin'. Start adapting. Today's SME People Insights below.
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You Can't Outsource Sensemaking to Gen AI
The UK economyâs complexity canât be solved with AI shortcuts. SMEs must democratise intelligence, empowering frontline people to sense, interpret, and adapt.
https://open.substack.com/pub/smepeopleinsights/p/you-cant-outsource-sensemaking-to?r=qt5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Stop Reacting to Employment Law. Start Building Your People Product
Desperately in need of some economic stability, we are instead playing parliamentary âping-pongâ with the Employment Relations Bill between the Lord and the Commons. MPs have decisively rejected all L...
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You Can't Outsource Sensemaking to Gen AI
We all know the UK economy is serving up a modern day Storm Katrina right now. Inflation still biting at 3.
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The MIT Reality Check We Actually Needed
We all are aware of the 70% Digital Transformation Failure!! Well hold my beer. It seems we now have a 95% Gen AI Failure rate.
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10 months ago
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SME leaders didnât lose hungerâstability rewarded it out of them. With AI reshaping business dynamics, passive leadership means decline. Growth now demands intentional design, not survival.
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Without Leadership Hunger, AI is Just Another Tool.
SME leaders didnât lose hungerâstability rewarded it out of them. With AI reshaping business dynamics, passive leadership means decline. Growth now demands intentional design, not survival.
https://open.substack.com/pub/smepeopleinsights/p/without-leadership-hunger-ai-is-just?r=qt5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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AI is Not Your Threat. Your Outdated Leadership is.
Stop building better bosses, start building organisations where leadership, decision-making, and strategic thinking are distributed across teams, not concentrated at the top.
https://open.substack.com/pub/smepeopleinsights/p/ai-is-not-your-threat-your-outdated?r=qt5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Stop Treating Employment Compliance and Innovation Like Enemies
Organisations face a single challenge: adapt structurally or be exposed by external forces such as AI and regulatory change. Coherenceâaligning tech, regulation, and humanityâis now essential.
https://open.substack.com/pub/smepeopleinsights/p/stop-treating-employment-compliance?r=qt5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
10 months ago
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Cultural Readiness Assessment
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Cultural Readiness Assessment
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Stop Pretending Complexity Is New
Weâve ignored complexity for 40 years. AI wonât save us â itâll surface the cracks. Our future, like our present, isn't about control and speed, but redesign, sense-making, and real work.
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You Donât Need More AI tools. You Need Less BS Work.
AI wonât fix pointless work, just accelerate it. The future of SMEs isnât faster reports, but redesigned work where BS is cut, client value leads, and AI handles grunt work.
https://open.substack.com/pub/smepeopleinsights/p/you-dont-need-more-ai-tools-you-need?r=qt5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Why Forcing People Back to 20th Century Offices Kills 21st Century Innovation
AI wonât save broken systems but expose them. The future of work wonât be built on square footage or legacy thinking, but on culture-first strategies powered by insight, not nostalgia.
https://open.substack.com/pub/smepeopleinsights/p/why-forcing-people-back-to-20th-century?r=qt5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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If youâve a people problem, youâll have an AI problem
Leaders say âI must do something about AI". Their instinct is action. But without the right cultural foundations, action misfires. AI doesnât fix broken systems, it amplifies them. Culture then Tech.
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11 months ago
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Latest Newsletter has dropped on LinkedIn. Please do share and subscribe for regular insights into the issues
#SMEs
leaders must resolve. This time, holding our collective nerve through RTO mandates.
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Why Forcing People Back to 20th Century Offices Kills 21st Century⌠| Barry Flack
Why Forcing People Back to 20th Century Offices Kills 21st Century Innovation
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12 months ago
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If youâve a people problem, youâll have an AI problem
Shared with 10,729 followers | 1,105 LinkedIn subscribers (and growing) âI know I need to do something about AIâ. I find these words reverberating around the corridors within the world of work quite a...
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12 months ago
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Despite claims to the contrary, this platform is a bit 'meh' isn't it? Convince me otherwise.
about 1 year ago
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Donât Let Cost Cutting Kill Your AI Ambitions
Shared with 10,678 followers | 1,071 LinkedIn subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives Welcome ...
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about 1 year ago
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For those who don't like their content from LinkedIn, here's my latest newsletter on Substack.
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Why Culture eats AI for breakfast â Part 2
Great Tech reveals Operational readiness. If the cultural foundations are shaky, no shiny new AI product will succeed. Instead, shift how people think, what they value, and how they contribute.
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about 1 year ago
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For those with an aversion to LinkedIn as a platform, my newsletter is also available on Substack.
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Why Culture eats AI for breakfast â Part 1
AI, like previous Digital Transformations, often fail because none of the players in the project seem to appreciate the need for strong cultural foundations or the human dimensions to success.
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about 1 year ago
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Latest edition out today. Please share and subscribe if interested in making great
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workplaces.
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Why Culture eats AI for breakfast â Part One
Shared with 10,645 followers | 1,043 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives A newsletter for ...
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about 1 year ago
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#HR
folks Each year, my good friends at Lattice publish a "State of People Strategy" Report. A pulse check on all-things-HR. This year's survey is now open. Takes 10 minutes & it's anonymous. Please give them your thoughts and share if you can.
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about 1 year ago
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Rethink HR, Rethink Leadership, Rethink Regulation
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Rethink HR, Rethink Leadership, Rethink Regulation
Shared with 10,599 followers | 1,005 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives Welcome to an eve...
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about 1 year ago
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đŻ Thinking of taking your HR career in a new direction? Fractional offers you more autonomy, more variety â and more impact. As I explain in this video, itâs not about age or seniority. Itâs about having clarity of value and the confidence to work independently.
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#fractionalconsulting #hrcareers #transformation #leadership #frazerjones | Frazer Jones
đŻ Thinking of taking your HR career in a new direction? Fractional consulting could offer you more autonomy, more variety â and more impact. As Barry Flack explains, itâs not about age or seniority. I...
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about 1 year ago
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Issue 5 of my newsletter has landed. Please share and subscribe.
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SME People Insights: Shedding outdated thinking to make change stick.
We need to shed outdated thinking. Here I examine how SMEs must factor employee economics on Change, ditch HR ownership of Wellbeing, repel the heroic leader and put agility into Skills building.
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Issue 5 of my newsletter has landed. Please share and subscribe.
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SME People Insights: Shedding outdated thinking to make change stick.
We need to shed outdated thinking. Here I examine how SMEs must factor employee economics on Change, ditch HR ownership of Wellbeing, repel the heroic leader and put agility into Skills building.
https://open.substack.com/pub/smepeopleinsights/p/sme-people-insights-shedding-outdated?r=qt5i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Had the pleasure of slumping back in a comfy chair and talk with Frazer Jones about all things
#FractionalHR
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Fractional consulting: a smarter way to scale HR leadership? | Frazer Jones
đŻ Need flexible, high-impact HR transformational leadership â without the long-term overhead? Fractional consulting gives businesses access to strategic HRâŚ
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SME People Insights : Solving workplace hangovers from the pandemic
Five years after the Pandemic started, we examine practical responses to legacy issues, like 'unlearning' ways of working, meetings hangover, recruitment evolution and a shift to skills-based roles.
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Latest from SME People Insights - Issue Four
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Latest from SME People Insights - Issue Four
Shared with 10,555 followers | 941 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives A newsletter for th...
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about 1 year ago
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My latest newsletter is out. Please share and subscribe.
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Latest from SME People Insights - Issue Three
Shared with 10,535 followers | 896 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives A newsletter for th...
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over 1 year ago
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My latest newsletter is out. Please share and subscribe.
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Latest from SME People Insights - Issue Three
Shared with 10,535 followers | 896 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives A newsletter for th...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/latest-from-sme-people-insights-issue-three-barry-flack-m54ae
over 1 year ago
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My 2nd edition of the newsletter has dropped. Please subscribe, share and comment.
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Latest from SME People Insights - Issue Two
Shared with 10,495 followers | 815 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives A newsletter that a...
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over 1 year ago
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Hi folks I've just launched a LinkedIn newsletter:
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People Insights. Every 2 weeks, I'll be sharing insights on issues and trends impacting the sector and strategies for adapting to change. Subscribe on LinkedIn
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over 1 year ago
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Two days in and I'm blocking dodgy accounts... Thought this is where the good guys hung out?
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