The IT Skeptic - humanity

Bringing humanity to work: Digital transformation and Industry 4.0

skeptic — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 02:05:41 +0000

Recently I wrote an idealised view of restoring humanity to work.

Imagine bringing humanity to work

skeptic — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 01:32:19 +0000

Imagine a workplace where you can bring your whole authentic self to work: where you don't have to hide your beliefs or your sexuality or your ethics.

Imagine a workplace where the same standards of social interaction apply as anywhere else, where any behaviour that is unacceptable in any other social context is also unacceptable at work, such as shouting, bullying, patronizing.

Bringing Humanity to Work

skeptic — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 08:00:49 +0000

Hear us present on the online conference Shine19 on 30th october at 04:00GMT about
Bringing Humanity to Work

Headroom

skeptic — Wed, 15 May 2019 18:03:32 +0000

It's more important to improve work than to do work.

Too many managers think improvement will happen magically in people's spare time.
If an organisation has a time recording system, a fun question is to ask how improvement is recorded. Often there are no codes for it.

If people have no headroom to do improvement then it won't happen. You'll be working the same way next year.

Treat staff like adults and equals

skeptic — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 06:22:57 +0000

There is a sea change in work, whether within IT or outside. It's a renaissance: a complete shift in how we think about employees and management. The portmanteau is usually "Agile" but it is far far more than that. It is a confluence of many new (and not so new) ideas. At their heart is a restoration of humanity, of human values, a unification of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

Firing people is always a last resort.

skeptic — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:24:47 +0000

Firing people should always be a last resort, not an instrument of culture change.