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  • Employee Experience Key Trends

    Employee Experience Key Trends

    by Sergio Caredda

    What are the Employee Experience Key Trends? As the concept of Employee Experience becomes more widespread across many organisations, it’s interesting to understand how organisations implement this concept, and what the key trends are. Two reports have come out in the last weeks, specifically underlying the importance of these. Although they come from two slightly different angles, they both proclaim the centrality of Employee Experience as a...

    December 13, 2019
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    Employee Experience
  • Reading Challenge 2019

    My 2019 Reading Challenge

    by Sergio Caredda

    Last year in September, I decided to go back and read more. I have been an avid reader in the past, but in the previous three years, the number of books that I had read decreased consistently. There was always something more appealing, probably a Netflix series to watch. I kept browsing a lot on the web, but it’s not the same. So in...

    December 6, 2019
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    Self Development
  • Followership and Leadership

    by Sergio Caredda

    Management is often assumed to be the story of Leader and Followers.But truly understanding Followership is critical to understand how organisations work. We are so ingrained in the idea that Leadership is critical, that we tend to forget that a Leader alone won’t be able to achieve much. The role of Leadership is overrated in organisations. The role of Followership is instead underrated. With this article, I want to...

    December 5, 2019
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    People Management
  • Good Enough

    Being Good Enough

    by Sergio Caredda

    Taking part in a recent event, one of the speaker at a certain point mentioned a sentence that made me think. We need to have the courage to settle for Good Enough Results sometime. Good Enough seems a sentence that underpins a failure, not reaching results. But this is only apparent. We indeed need to accept that we can’t be on top of performance every day. We can’t...

    December 1, 2019
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    Skills
  • Say Thanks. The Power of Gratitude

    Giving Thanks: the Power of Gratitude

    by Sergio Caredda

    Today is Thanksgiving in the USA, one of the most celebrated holidays in the world. The amount of people that travel to reach their families and friends is incredible, especially for a country we often assume to be cold and capitalist. The spiritual value at the core of this holiday is gratitude and often unconsidered quality in a working environment. Yet there are scientific...

    November 27, 2019
    Random Notes
  • Organise without managers: is it possible at scale?

    Organise without managers: is it possible at scale?

    by Sergio Caredda

    Organise without managers. A dream that many seem to nurture. A few months ago, I already wrote a post with what I thought was a thought-provoking title: do we still need managers? The answer I tried to give back then was that we certainly need proper management, but this does not automatically equate to keep the old hierarchy of managers. The debate about organising without managers is not...

    November 12, 2019
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    People Management
  • Movember - Change the Face of men's health

    #Movember

    by Sergio Caredda

    I’m joining the Movember movement this year, growing a moustache in support for raising awareness on some of the biggest health issues faced by men: prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and mental health and suicide prevention. Started by the Movember Foundation in 2003, it quickly has grown to a large scale movement, with more than 5 million people supporting it every year. How can you...

    November 4, 2019
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    Random Notes
  • Herbie Hancock Concert in Milan (Nov 1st. 2019)

    Jazz and Leadership: 6 big lessons from Herbie Hancock’s Concert.

    by Sergio Caredda

    Yesterday I attended the Herbie Hancock concert at the Conservatorio of Milan, opening act of the JazzMi Festival. It was a genuinely great experience, to see such a master of jazz play. We had perfect placing (third row). Not more than 10 meters separated us from this real master. But am not here to comment on the (exceptional) music. Instead, as the concert rolled, I could observe...

    November 2, 2019
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    People Management
  • The future of HR? Is Human.

    by Sergio Caredda

    For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reasoning (again I would say) on the role of HR. I’ve been especially challenged by the idea that “HR is a job for losers“. I have tried to understand where we can still make the difference, which around (re)taking ownership of the relationship between the “work” and the way the organisation uses it.  I think I’ve now...

    October 14, 2019
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    People Management
  • How do we get sh*t done. The Future of Work and a new paradigm for HR.

    by Sergio Caredda

    Too many HR professionals still consider traditional employees to be their only “customer”. Companies today however have redefined the concept of work by interacting with multiple types of talents. If this is clearly defining a new future of work, it also impacts how we define the role of HR. Since the beginning of organisational theories, social scientists and managers kept struggling on how much...

    October 4, 2019
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    People Management

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Who Owns Digital Transformation?
December 14, 2019

Who owns Digital Transformation?

There appears to be a constant discussion about Who Owns Digital Transformation. I wrote already in the past that I think...

by Sergio Caredda
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Employee Experience Key Trends
December 13, 2019

Employee Experience Key Trends

What are the Employee Experience Key Trends? As the concept of Employee Experience becomes more widespread across many organisations, it’s interesting to...

by Sergio Caredda
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The Power of Saying Yes
December 12, 2019

The Power of Saying Yes

The Power of Saying Yes is a key concept I have devised from Expanding the Vocabulary of Yes is another great takeaway...

by Sergio Caredda
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Book Review: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
December 11, 2019

Book Review: Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers is not a business book. Nor a management book. As you read it, however, you start realising...

by Sergio Caredda
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People Management

Who Owns Digital Transformation?

Who owns Digital Transformation?

Published by Sergio Caredda

There appears to be a constant discussion about Who Owns Digital Transformation. I wrote already in the past that I think that HR needs to play a vital role in this...

December 14, 2019
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People Management
Employee Experience Key Trends

Employee Experience Key Trends

Published by Sergio Caredda

What are the Employee Experience Key Trends? As the concept of Employee Experience becomes more widespread across many organisations, it’s interesting to understand how organisations implement this concept, and what the key...

December 13, 2019
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Employee Experience
What is Organisation Design

What is Organisation Design?

Published by Sergio Caredda

Organisation Design is a foundational skill for all HR professionals as well as managers. Yet from my experience, it is relegated to very few specialists, who often don’t even make...

December 8, 2019
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Organisation Design

Followership and Leadership

Published by Sergio Caredda

Management is often assumed to be the story of Leader and Followers.But truly understanding Followership is critical to understand how organisations work. We are so ingrained in the idea that Leadership is critical, that...

December 5, 2019
Comment 1
People Management

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Skills

The Power of Saying Yes

The Power of Saying Yes

by Sergio Caredda

The Power of Saying Yes is a key concept I have devised from Expanding the Vocabulary of Yes is another great takeaway that I got from reading the book from Frank J. Barrett Yes to the Mess. The way he explains this is that one of the biggest blocks to creativity and improvisation is getting stuck wishing the situation was different. The alternative in his own words are to develop an affirmative mindset: in every condition, there is always a positive pathway to be found or a potential to be noticed and pursued. The Cynical Manager The Power of Saying Yes is a way to overcoming the glamour of no. Barrett mentions that too often in many organisations, cynicism is established as a way to attain status. For many people, cynical responses to ideas seem justified because they are more “realistic”. Too often, executives become far more adept at critiquing others’ ideas than they are at creating their own original ideas or lending support to those of others. Frank J. Barrett Yes to the Mess, page 169 What is needed is what the author defines an...

December 12, 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Book Reviews

Book Review: Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers is not a business book. Nor a management book. As you read it, however, you start realising how much we don’t know ourselves as humans. Its subtitle What...

December 11, 2019
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Book Review: The 7 Mental Images of National Culture by Huib Wursten
Book Reviews

Book Review: The 7 Mental Images of National Culture by Huib Wursten

The 7 Mental Images of National Culture is a book by Huib Wursten, an Associate Partner at Hofstede Insights. The name itself of Geert Hofstede brings immediately in mind his work on Cultural Dimensions that...

December 9, 2019
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Book Review: An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
Book Reviews

Book Review: An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

An Everyone Culture is another eye-opening book that focuses on how organisations should be organised to provide real meaning for their employees. Its subtitle, Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization, immediately looks...

December 4, 2019
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Customer Experience

Customer and Chef in a Japanese Restaurant

Who Owns the Experience?

by Sergio Caredda

We have all heard the concept of Experience Economy that dominates the evolution of our world today. Most companies have realised the importance of thinking in terms of experience and have started adapting, focusing on Customer Experience as one of the critical drivers for success. People have been nominated Chief Experience Officers, a number of design tools are put in place to support this, a number of other more focused “experience”...

October 31, 2019
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Customer Experience

Why do Digital Transformations fail?

by Sergio Caredda

There are many articles recently looking at why Digital Transformation projects are failing. A recent survey by Accenture among 1350 global executives, which collectively invested over 100 billions USD on scaling digital innovations, shows that 78% of companies struggle to see results. This confirmed the 2017 survey results from Bain that showed that only 5% of digital transformation projects were successful. we learned that few companies...

October 19, 2019
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Customer Experience

What’s new about Digital Leadership?

by Sergio Caredda

Understanding the concept of Digital Leadership is not an easy tasks. Multiple points of view, different approaches, a lot of partial answers, all contribute to a scattered scenario. If we want to really focus on digital maturity though, we need to approach this concept as the fundamental component of Culture Change. Digital Leadership is another concept, together with of Transformation, that is really “hot”...

September 19, 2019
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

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