Lessons In Leadership Thoughts from the Zeitgeist Can We Chatbot? Make sure your generative AI use is VALID. Whether you love ChatGTP, Bard, and similar generative AI tools, or you think they are a prelude to the Robot Apocalypse, the expression “you can’t put the genie back in the bottle” seems appropriate. As I previously blogged about, I embrace the vast potential of AI to […] Written by BPH May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lessons In Leadership Thoughts from the Zeitgeist Embracing Dangerous Ideas You already love AI. It seems as though every article or post I’ve read lately references artificial intelligence. Of course, AI has been around for decades, but the speed and memory capacity of computing systems have made AI applications ubiquitous. And so people race to that band wagon to either credit or blame artificial intelligence […] Written by BPH May 12, 2023May 12, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lessons In Leadership Thoughts from the Zeitgeist Crying Wolf Let’s disrupt the cycle of Recession Fatigue. Remember the fable about the little boy who cried wolf? He punked the good town folk too many times — warning them about a wolf that never came — and then when an actual wolf pounced, everyone ignored his cries. The story did not end happily for the […] Written by BPH April 27, 2023April 27, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lessons In Leadership Thoughts from the Zeitgeist Inspire Exponential Collaboration Let’s make beautiful music together. At Freeman, collaboration is codified into our culture because it is foundational to the kind of work we do. No one can execute a massive event without a variety of teams working like clockwork to bring it off. And of course, collaboration entails a work ethic that every leader encourages, […] Written by BPH March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lessons In Leadership Thoughts from the Zeitgeist We Are All Designers We Need More Skeuomorphism It’s another lesson in design thinking. The first time I heard a colleague use the word “skeuomorphism,” I was delighted to discover that there was a name for the design methodology that I was seeing everyday but not really thinking about. Examples are literally all over the typical computer “desktop” (a verbal skeuomorph), as evidenced […] Written by BPH March 2, 2023March 2, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lessons In Leadership Thoughts from the Zeitgeist Good Vibrations Forget work/life balance; seek harmony instead. Like so many businesspeople, for a long time I tried to find the perfect work/life balance. And as a leader, I’ve urged my people to do the same. The problem is few people I know could find the right formula. I couldn’t. It took me years to realize that […] Written by BPH October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked