While attractive in marketing brochures, long tenure and close relationships in leadership teams can sometimes harm a company.

AI transformation isn’t only about building or buying new systems. New technology often faces systemic inanities in legacy organisations.

Do you dislike using project management tools? Give me a chance to address your objections.

Knowledge workers are often mistrusting of processes for the corporate red-tape they create. But effective processes have their benefits.

Big companies are herding people back to office. Is this the end of the remote working era?

It’s entirely possible to have conflicting emotions about your job and your employer. The work vibe matrix helps individuals (and their managers) assess the relationship between their jobs and their employers so they can reconcile such conflicting emotions.

If you set them up right, internal open-source projects can help your company gain extra development capacity and a sense of community. In this post, I discuss four key practices that help you run a successful, internal open-source project.

There are widespread concerns about how AI will disrupt employment and render many people jobless. I argue that jobs that involve routine, non-novel, and acceptably risky knowledge work will be prime candidates for such disruption.

Regardless of how passionate you are about your work, I encourage you to find ways to separate your professional life from personal time. It’s a win-win-win for you, your colleagues and your employers.

If you’re a rookie project manager, maintaining a calm and productive team environment should be one of your primary goals. I recommend three important practices that’ll help you in that quest.

Seductive job titles come with daunting job descriptions. You may not bargain for the pain that comes with roles.

“Scribo ergo sum”. I write, therefore I am. A post about the top three reasons why I write.

AI has disrupted our search and content creation experience. To recognise this shift, Nagarjun Kandukuru and I have written an AI-first KM manifesto, which we’d like to introduce to you.

When pointy-haired bosses run out of real arguments for a “return to office”, they turn to disingenuous corporate speak. There are many examples out there, but three of them annoy me the most.

Super managers, i.e. managers of managers must monitor if their direct reports demonstrate care for their team members. In this post, I discuss three techniques for super managers to hear directly from their direct reports' direct reports.

I’m a big fan of dividing and conquering. After all, isn’t that what asynchronous collaboration is all about? But dividing and conquering without a cohesive vision is mere reductionism. Ingredients are nothing without a recipe. A recipe is nothing without a vision. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

IT workers successfully pushed back against a draconian 70-hour work week proposal in Karnataka. But such victories are shallow if we don’t stand in solidarity with our other, worker brethren, who often endure far worse working conditions.

In a psychologically safe workplace, people share feedback freely. But when feedback lands on deaf ears, it fosters feedback fatigue.

What should the purpose of artificial general intelligence be? Cut jobs? Slash costs? I argue that the purpose could be to elevate our creativity.

Efficient work rituals lead to predictable, high-quality results. As part of my depth rituals, I setup a clean workbench before I begin any work. The inspiration? Elite sport and master chefs!