England and Wales are launching their “NHS Covid-19” app today. The UK government has so far been utterly incompetent at creating a reliable national contact tracing app and getting people to support it. The contrast is especially galling after I witnessed how Finland launched theirs in August with a million…

We interviewed tech leaders about distractions and deep work in engineering teams. They were united that an engineering team needs an environment free of distractions, where they can both focus on the work at hand, and collaborate with other teams, but not at the same time. The first in line…

Silos are the byproducts of growth and specialization inside a company. Silos are basically teams (not people but organizational structures) that have distanced themselves from each other and possess information that the other teams don’t. In a silo, employees will have less of a relationship with the company. Instead, they…

Trust and teamwork are in a crisis if you ask managers. If you are a knowledge worker, you are working remotely in the COVID spring of 2020; whether you want to or not. Everyone has become intimately familiar with remote collaboration — instant messaging, simultaneous editing, and gawking at your…

Gillette made a very bold move with their latest advertisement, where they, as the quintessential man’s brand — “the best a man can get” — positioned themselves as candid opposers of toxic masculinity. Purely pragmatically, this seems like a great strategic move. As a purposeful brand taking sides in the…

This article was originally published in brand-e. The futurist Ray Kurzweil, a modern Nostradamus, predicted that essential advances in digital pattern recognition and knowledge representation — the key components of intelligence — will make artificial intelligence possible and then commonplace. …