I know you thought we’d left it all behind with Rod’s last blog on robots, but here are some final observations prompted by Amazon’s annual shareholder letter. With all the recent discussion around the insights from Jeff Bezos and the Amazon shareholder letter,...
Originally published in The Spinoff The robots are coming to take our jobs – so what should we be doing for work (and our workers) when they arrive? Rod Snodgrass, director of The Exponential Agency, says it’s time for New Zealand business to start preparing for the...
No time for a full calculation. Punch it Chewie! Oh there’s a planet: Boom we are all dead! In essence, this is a bit what business is like now. The threat of the exponential disruption is the Empire on our tail, the calculation for the jump to lightspeed is the...
I’m revelling in the numerous lessons that I uncovered from Amazon’s shareholders letter where Jeff Bezos described that Amazon will not be a Day 2 company (Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. see...
A bit of a family tradition at the end of the holidays is I allow the girls to choose an activity topped off with a meal at a restaurant of their choice. This is how this week played out: Me: Right girls, what do you want to do today – your choice: pools, beach, bike...
Following on from last week’s musings I want to look a little deeper at change and the associated level of disruption occurring within the exponential economy, and how you might think about addressing this as an organisation. It is clear by now that change is coming...
