Work

Please see below recent gender-related change.

See also:

• What's New? - Gender
• What's Changing? - Ageing
• What's Changing? - Gender
• What's Changing? - Demographics
• What's Changing? - Equality
• What's Changing? - Fairness
• What's Changing? - Rights

April 2024

Please see below selected recent purpose-related change.

See also:

• What's New? - Purpose
• What's Changing? - Meaning
• What's Changing? - Purpose

July 2023

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Please see below selected recent automation-related change,

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• What's Changing? - Work
• What's Changing? - Artificial Intelligence

November 2023

Please see below selected recent intelligence about talent.

See also:

• What's New - Talent?

December 2022

• Further reading:
  • It’s time to call a truce in the ‘war for talent’ - Financial Times
  • Talent wars: why businesses have to battle to hire the best - Financial Times

June 2021

10 years on from chastening and often stunning images of the impact that global recession is having - right now. The Great Depression Revisited? The clothes and the cars and the laptops suggest "not yet", but over the coming months, who knows?

Still, the blooming sunflower in the last shot is a touching piece of photojournalism, suggesting that hope springs eternal or, as Roy Harper put it, "through all destruction flies new dawn".

Aristotle coined the term "phronesis", meaning practical intelligence. It's the kind of wisdom that emerges from the long training of mind, body, character and engagement with a tradition.

This chimes perhaps with Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that acquiring true expertise in a discipline requires an average of 10,000 hours of practice.