Paul Taylor

October 10, 2014

We need less talk about innovation and more about mediocrity

“The only way to get mediocre is one step at a time. But you don’t have to settle. It’s a choice you get to make every day.” – Seth Godin In my last post I named innovation as the… Continue reading

October 3, 2014

20 Signs You’re Probably Not Working For A Social Business

If innovation is the most overused word of 2014 , then “social business” must be the most misappropriated term. Every other organisation I come across is claiming to be one. But what does it mean to be a social business? Altimeter… Continue reading

August 22, 2014

Managers are waste: Five organisations saying goodbye to the boss

“Until there is a monumental shift in the leadership dynamic from the old fashioned command and control to a collaborative, status free, matrix way of working, then the debate about the need for an office (in the traditional sense) will… Continue reading

August 19, 2014

Robot Revolution: Our disappearing jobs and the future of work

“Imagine a pair of horses in the early 1900s talking about technology. One worries that all these new mechanical muscles will make horses unnecessary. The other reminds him that everything so far has made their lives easier. Remember all that… Continue reading

July 31, 2014

Why The Death Of The Office Can’t Come Too Soon

“We literally followed people around all day and timed every event [that happened in the office], to the second. That meant telephone calls, working on documents, typing e-mails, or interacting with someone. What we found is that the average amount of… Continue reading

July 24, 2014

Throwback: Our Social Journey (So Far….)

Your life story is being told by the digital content you produce One of the downsides of our digital lifestyle is that we simply can’t retain the information that passes through it. I couldn’t tell you what I tweeted last week,… Continue reading

July 11, 2014

Our Twitter only recruitment: An update

It’s two months since we announced our Twitter only recruitment so I thought it was time for an update. We’ve been pretty much overwhelmed by the number of people who registered an interest in the Lab. We had over 14,000 views… Continue reading

July 2, 2014

What Uber, Comms Hero and HouseParty tell us about the future of the conference…

(A version of this post originally appeared on 24Dash – go visit them as they’re great!) 2pm 11th June: London grinds to a halt. Cab drivers have downed tools for an hour. Uber, a smartphone app that offers an easy… Continue reading

June 19, 2014

The #PowerPlayers14 Awards at #HseParty14

POST UPDATED 25TH JUNE Winners of people choice awards at House Party: Social Media Campaign: Winner: Adrian Capon for #HousingDay. Runners up: Council Home Chat , Real Life Reform Best Blogger: Winner: Colin Wiles. Runners up: Thom Bartley, Jules Birch Rising Star: Winner:… Continue reading

June 6, 2014

The Top 50 Digital #PowerPlayers14 in #ukhousing

You want to get to the list don’t you? Hold on. It’s coming. Before you look at the Top 50 influencers please read this guest post from Shirley Ayres who kindly agreed to collaborate with me on #powerplayers14. For me…it… Continue reading

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