Welcome
My name is Sergio Caredda, and this is my home on the web. If you have landed here, you most probably work in Human Resources or have some interest in Organisation Design, Employee Experience or topics related to the Future of Work.
Even if I tend to write occasionally and in waves, I try to keep the content of this site alive. And I notice that people like you sometime find this content useful. Plus I do like writing: it’s the way I order my thoughts and give a meaning to what I read and experiment through my daily work.
In my journey I keep looking at individual talents as well as the overall culture and the identity that we form in an organisation. Belonging to something bigger sits at the core of the reason why we organize ourselves in groups and teams, and create enterprises and any form of organization.
What you will find here is basically the result of my curiosity. I tend to be eclectic, and thus you may find sometime difficulty in tracing down linear paths in my way of thinking.
After many years running this blog on Wordpress, I started a transition to Notion and Super.so. The reason is that for the last couple of years I wasn’t really able to focus on writing, and blogging is not anymore something I aim at. Yet, I’m interested in using a lot of the content that I have produced over the more than 15 years of existence of my online presence and focus on less updates, but better quality, probably focusing especially on longer essays.
Yet, the past content is still valid, which is why I have transitioned to the new platform trying to save all past posts and articles. A transition that was concluded on June 24th 2024.
Where to Start
If you have landed on this page, this is probably the first time you visit this site. I will use these few paragraphs to guide you through the structure of this blog, and what I really care for. If you want to learn more about myself, there is an “About Sergio Caredda” page where you can learn more about myself.
I guess however you are more interested in the content I provide, so here a few ways to learn how to explore what I write upon, with a few itineraries you can use to explore this site.
Some Basic Definitions
As mentioned, there are a few basic topics that are recurrent on this blog, and that I wanted to define here, also by providing a link to the key posts that cover each of the topics.
Please feel free to add feedback to any of the posts. A comment section is always available below each article.
Work
Organisation Design
Work is the foundation for human beings to achieve a meaningful life. And work provides the lifeblood and sense to most forms of organisation. But how is work changing? This is the question I try to address across my posts on The Future of Work.
Organisation Design is a set of tools and methods aimed at creating the most effective architecture for an Organisation to reach its strategic purpose. I try to understand how these tools work, and how we can help organisations evolve.
Experience
Leadership
Experience is the collection of positive and negative interactions that human beings have with an entity. I focus on two types here: experience as customers and as employee. Thinking in terms of Experience is the basis of Design Thinking approaches.
I look at Leadership as the driving force behind organisational evolution. A narrow definition, but that allows me to focus on the components that really matter.
Change
Rebel
Change is the process by which organisation evolve and adapt to the environment. I dedicate a lot of time in exploring methods and tool that can support all.
A Rebel is a person that goes against predefined sets of rules and challenges the Status Quo, while pursuing improvement. An approach that has marked my way of addressing work and that I try to explore as well through this blog.
Other Routes of Exploration
As mentioned, not everything is linear. What can potentially fit in one category for me, maybe fits another for you. This is the reason why there’s other ways to explore this site.
- Tags are a way I use to connect logically my content (not only on this site).
- Inspiration is the area of this site where I connect all my sources of inspiration, link suggestions etc.
My Sources of Inspiration
My eclectic personality brings me to explore a lot of content, particularly on the web. I often share this, either in the form of Book Reviews, Blog Listing, Videos, Quotes or Snippets of Inspiration.
A Note about the Book Reviews
I tend to read a lot, and when I read a good management book, I tend to share a review on my blog. You can find them all published in my Book section. As with all reviews, these are pretty personal. I tend to write about management, leadership and organisation design books, but you’ll occasionally also find something that is loosely connected to this world.
I use a 1 to 5 rating system that is totally personal, here the reasoning behind each of the ratings:
- 5/5 : A Must Read. It is both great in content and provides and illustrates practical applications.
- 4/5: A Great Read. It provides great content but lacks an immediate practical application. Or it focuses on applications (for example case studies) that are not easily scalable.
- 3/5: A Good Read. The book contains some new good ideas but is either too narrow or too thin in terms of content research.
- 2/5: An OK Read. The book probably contains some good ideas, but either these are too generic or expressed inconsistently. There might be some incoherence and no trace of practical applications.
- 1/5: Definitely a Bad Book. But you won’t see this happening often.
A word about Affiliates Links
My Book Reviews and occasionally some of my other posts, contain affiliate links to Amazon so that it may be easier for you to access the book more easily. If you click through and purchase the item, I will get a small commission. I don’t plan on making a living out of this at all, but it has the advantage of being able to route you to the nearest Amazon store and give you immediate access to the book, in case you’d wish to buy it.
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Thank you!
