The Importance of Context: Why We Need To Think Collaboratively If We Are To Adapt
At AQai, we are transforming the field of ‘people metrics’, and we see again that there is often an individual-focus. With rare exceptions, such as the Motivational Map, which has team and organisational functionalities, the majority of people metrics such as Kolbe...
How To Combat Loneliness and Isolation When Working Remotely
More and more people are working remotely. But whilst working from home or using tools such as Slack, Skype, Zoom, or other digital connectors, has proven hugely advantageous for many, it is not without its downsides. I spoke with Mike Raven, co-founder of Adaptai and experienced digital nomad...
Can Learning Adaptability Help Us Close the Skills Gap?
There is a great deal of anxiety around employability, skills, and future job prospects at the moment; the anxiety is not only understandable, but rational. According to the new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study, 120 million workers in twelve of the world’s largest economies...
The 4 Cs Formula Needed To Create Transformative Personal Breakthroughs
All of us, in life, want to make break-throughs, unless we are in a really unhealthy frame of mind, which sadly is the case for some. However, the majority of us want success, we want to make steps forward, we want to grow, and we want to break-through...
3 Ways You Can Future-Proof Your Business
In our exponential world, everything could (will) change tomorrow, and the pace of change is increasing, doubling in fact, in accordance with Moore’s law. Soon, we will approach the singularity, where the outcomes of change will become impossible to predict...
UNLEARN: The Future of Work & A New Operating System For Change
To help us transition and discuss how this new operating system might look, we hosted UNLEARN: The Future of Work, as part of a private event series, a small gathering of game-changers and pioneers to discuss and share ideas for the future global workforce in a world of accelerating change...
AI Might As Well Be Extra-Terrestrial, Here’s How We Can Have A Good Relationship With It
A theme of this new world that is emerging around us, is letting go. Letting go of old knowledge and processes that no longer benefit us, letting go of old societal norms, letting go of apprehensions about interacting with inhuman interfaces. The reality is, whether we like it or not, it’s coming...
How Serena Williams’ Comeback Can Teach Us The Principle of ‘Un-learning’
Earlier this year, the BBC published a series of articles on the 101 ways worklife is changing today. One of the most interesting articles, by Lisa Leong, discussed adaptability quotient, and its importance in the modern workplace. In fact, Leong went so far as to describe AQ as the ‘X-factor for career success.’...
Why AQ Is So Much Bigger Than The Workplace
Earlier this year, the BBC published a series of articles on the 101 ways worklife is changing today. One of the most interesting articles, by Lisa Leong, discussed adaptability quotient, and its importance in the modern workplace. In fact, Leong went so far as to describe AQ as the ‘X-factor for career success.’...
Adaptability Quotient; a foundation for survival and the key to thriving in an era of massive disruption.
Difficult situations, ones perceived outside of our control, are the moments in life when choosing how to show up creates waves of immeasurable impact. Impact on ourselves, our family, our community, our Nation and our planet...
Why You Should Be Unreasonable
In a world of deadlines, budgets, and performance reviews, it’s understandable that few individuals would want to be seen as “unreasonable.” The exposure brought on by daring to be unreasonable can be frightening, and the prospect of doing harm...
Why All Businesses Need Rapid Experimentation, But Few Actually Do It
I believe many leaders now know innovation isn’t an event. In the past they set up ‘innovation labs’, places with bean bags and hoped this would foster solutions to help solve their future development roadmaps, unlock deeper customer insights and ensure a sustainable...
Can Societal Change Trigger Positive Adaption?
Staying ahead of the curve is not just about responding to change, but predicting and influencing it. The reality is that it’s not only technology that is rapidly changing our world, but the strategic by-products from access to tremendous amounts of information...
Which 7 Essential Skills Will Define Our Future?
With the rise of machine-learning, robotics, sensors, algorithms, and AI, it’s becoming clear that humanity cannot continue to thrive in the same way we used to. Everywhere, professions are being challenged and in some areas outright outmoded by technological innovations...
4 Key Abilities of Adaptability You Can Learn
Adaptability has been described by the Harvard Business Review as ‘the new competitive advantage’. Research data from LinkedIn (2018) has revealed that adaptability topped the top five soft skills that employers were looking for in new candidates...
The Human Cost of Our Rapidly Changing World
In general, when we talk about our rapidly changing world, we talk about humans and technology in isolation, as though the two are naturally separated, or worse as two opposing forces in a battle for supremacy. However, I believe technology is inert until we give it a purpose...
