Time, for Business
Time is at the heart of the struggle over the culture of business, and has been for generations.
Tag: technology
Digital Racism
Jonathan Cook: Welcome to This Human Business, a podcast representing the movement to reform business culture, moving it away from its obsession with digital efficiency to find new ways of working. Conventional business writing has a tendency to engage in what, in last week’s episode, …
The Business of Human Emotion
Understanding emotion is vital to success in business, but how can businesses come to grips with emotion, effectively and ethically? What do scientific studies have to teach us about attempts to automate the study of emotion, and what are the human alternatives?
Digital Addiction and My Year without an iPhone
Digital devices come with an emotional hook hidden within the appearance of quantified progress. It’s difficult to deny that progress is being made when the numbers keep going up.
The Business of the Future – This Human Business Episode 6
A full text transcript of the 6th episode of the podcast This Human Business, which focuses on the beliefs we hold about the future of business. No one has been to the future, but talk about what’s to come is stronger than ever.
The Business of Human Technology – Episode 5
A transcript of the 5th episode of the podcast This Human Business. The subject of this episode is the relationship between technology and humanity in business, in the context of the techlash, and its growing skepticism of a positive role for digital technology in human society. Can tech culture be humanized?
The Story of John Henry the Data-Driven Man
Those firms that are pushing qualitative research to get faster and cheaper, competing on the quantitative terms of supercomputers, are trapped what I call the John Henry effect.
Jonah Sachs on the Story of Business and Social Media
The following is an excerpt of an interview with Jonah Sachs, author of Winning The Story Wars and Unsafe Thinking.
This Human Business Podcast Coming Soon!
When was it that “innovation” became synonymous with “technology”? The technological innovations of recent years have certainly brought powerful new tools to business, but still, when we look at the process of business innovation, it isn’t the technology that’s actually doing the innovating. It’s human …