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Articles in business publications

Harvard Business Review Digital

• How Workers with a Gig Mindset Can Help Your Company Thrive
• The Company Cultures That Help (or Hinder) Digital Transformation
• Tracking the Trends in Bringing Our Own Devices to Work

MIT Sloan Management Review

• Neutralize Internal Politics in Digital Initiatives
• Related webinar with MIT Sloan Management August 2018: Don’t Let Politics Block Your Digital Initiatives
• How Digital Leaders Inspire Engagement

Global Peter Drucker Forum Blog

• 2022 – Employee Power in Turbulent Times: Why Now and How
• 2021 – The gig mindset: A compass for navigating uncertainty
• 2020 – Leadership Everywhere Means Reversed Leadership
• 2018 – How a Gig Mindset Inside Organizations Will Shape our Future
• 2017 – The Inclusive Organization and the Reachability Factor
• 2016 – Seeding an Entrepreneurial Work Culture
• 2015 – Is Your Work Culture Conducive to Digital Transformation?

Practitioner: firsthand strategic advising

Firsthand strategic advising: I advised global organizations on their internal digital strategies and organizational culture evolution for over 20 years from the late 90’s through 2016. I retired from this activity in 2017.

In addition:

• UNHCR – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva
• United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, New York
• United Nations Secretariat, New York
• UNAIDS – Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva
• IFRC – International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva

Thinking partner sessions

I have given briefings to management in different industries. This is usually in the form of very short online sessions of 2 or 3 hours with the objective of opening eyes and triggering awareness of the reality of our new era in the workplace. I help leaders envisage how they can define actionable (versus theoretical) strategies and mobilize their organization.

• Global consumer goods organization, France
• Key player in the financial transactions industry, France
• Global industrial company in a merger context, US & France
• International textile company in Europe
• Global manufacturing company in Germany
• Executive Round Table organized by the Peter Drucker Forum Europe, the Harvard Business Review and Roland Berger, Munich
• Major French bank and insurance group, France
• Government infrastructure agency, Europe
• Global chemical company, Germany
• Global technology company, Stockholm
• Global construction company, Paris
•  Nuclear safety government agency, Europe
• Leading luxury brands group, Europe

12 years of research and reports

First wave: the organization in the digital age

I conducted 10 annual surveys on the internal digital work environments of organizations between 2006 and 2016. Each year I published a report. The 10th annual survey report was published in November 2016: The Organization in the Digital Age. Approximately 300 organizations participated each year.

Second wave: the gig mindset inside organizations

As of 2018, my research focused on the gig mindset inside organizations. This led to the book described here and the inspiration for the podcast Bold New Breed.  

Profiles of myself and my work

From Profiles in Knowledge by Stan Garfield, longtime, leading community facilitator in the field of knowledge. Stan covers nearly all my career here!

A month-long learning initiative in India around the gig mindset. The initiative involved  Clubhouse chats, online interviews and an interactive webinar with leading management and organizational thinkers in India. Organized by Founding Fuel who also did a profile of my 25 years of experience.

The blend:  how analyst and practitioner came together

Unlike many analysts whose work is based on research and reading, my analytical work is grounded in 20 years of front line advising with large organizations, and supplemented by data from my 12 years of research.

I defined a foundational framework in 2013 using data and insights from several years of annual surveys. It became a reference point for organizations on their digital transformation travels.

Me and chez moi

The past and the present

Born in Nebraska, young days in Arizona and university in California, I now live in Provence, just minutes away from the Roman Pont du Gard. The dignity and timelessness of the site are a constant reminder of the balance I (and we all) need between the past and the present.