Harold Jarche has written a good succinct post on the shift managers have to make from hierarchy to network. It makes lots of sense to me, and it’s a challenge I’m seeing lots of organisations wrestle with. Harold challenges the “learning delivery” model, which is something I often run up against. It’s quite a culture shift and it’s happening to organisations whether they like it or not.

Grit before pearls
Ben Schott has a go at the paradoxical blandness of supposedly disruptive startups: Welcome to your bland new world. It’s easy to get stuck in