Teams learning from families learning from teams
A small group of people sharing a space for several weeks, all with different needs and preferences. Sound familiar right now? While it’s true of families and …
Doctor's Note
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Seeing Change Creates Change
Gerry McGovern has just written a new book called World Wide Waste: How digital is killing our planet—and what we can do about it. It’s an extremely important …
Systems Thinking Failure
I committed a cardinal sin of systems thinking in the last issue of Doctor’s Note. Well, a little bit, at least. I mentioned the fact that the annual influenza …
Online Teaching Tips
I’ve been teaching online since the late 90s when I first started working on the Omnium Virtual Design Studio project. Back then 50 participants from all …
Suddenly remote? Tell me your stories
Suddenly working from home remotely? Tell me your stories for a new podcast. We’re in the middle of an unprecedented social experiment with so many people …
Workplaces need to change, not women
One of the best pieces I’ve read all week about the structural gender inequality of workplaces was the transcript of HBR’s IdeaCast podcast with Michelle King, …
Remote Work in the Age of Corona
In wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19), many organisations are telling their workers to switch to remote working, including 7,000 GPs (MDs) in the UK. An …
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