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If Every Task Changes, Is It Still the Same Job?
There is a great thought experiment called the Ship of Theseus. It poses the question: if you replace every board on a ship, do you have a new ship or the same ship? This is a great way to reflect on the future of work.

Meg Bear
Apr 152 min read


We need to go faster
My sense is that we can learn from these successful examples to improve organizational change agility and achieve transformational outcomes.

Meg Bear
Mar 225 min read


Q4 2024 |Q1 2025 Book Reports
The last several months have been emotionally charged for me. I've been intentionally investing in more reading

Meg Bear
Mar 124 min read


Ask better questions
One of the things I’m most excited about in this Ambiguity Age is the realization that we are forced to ask better questions.

Meg Bear
Mar 112 min read


Retention is a terrible metric
The hard truth you need to hear
The labor market is expecting significant productivity gains in the next decade.

Meg Bear
Mar 52 min read


Fundamental Shifts
The business of software is changing, luckily we have seen this movie before (sort of).

Meg Bear
Nov 14, 20244 min read


The Future Is Interdisciplinary
Some of the innovations I’m most impressed with have not really been innovations at all – they have been deconstructions of prior innovation

Meg Bear
Oct 19, 20244 min read


Why you must start now
It’s hard to know how to innovate these days. Everything is a bit upside down.

Meg Bear
Aug 3, 20242 min read


Forming a venture investment thesis
One of the commitments I made to myself for Sabbatical was to invest time to craft a personal venture investment thesis.

Meg Bear
Jul 13, 20245 min read


Software Industry Post-ZIRP
As you all know I’ve been talking to a lot of people these days. I’m also reading a lot and I’m thinking even more.

Meg Bear
Apr 12, 20244 min read


A sustainable upskilling strategy.
As you know, I’ve been in the HR industry a long time and pattern recognition is my jam, so I can’t help but experience frustration with “to

Meg Bear
Feb 21, 20232 min read


It's Time to Re-Think Work
More than a decade ago I wrote an article for Workforce Magazine talking about what we would now call the gig economy.

Meg Bear
May 18, 20222 min read
iPad != Mobile
This is possibly a pedantic point of view, but to me, the iPad is not a mobile device.

Meg Bear
Sep 1, 20112 min read
When Trend Lines Fail
When you work in technology and are inclined to study disruption, you will begin to realize that it is easy to be misled by trend lines.

Meg Bear
Jul 29, 20111 min read


What I believe
Just when I think I’ve seen the best TEDTalk I get a new favorite.

Meg Bear
May 6, 20101 min read


Are you using your org goals to channel innovation?
As you can imagine, in my job I ponder innovation a lot.Â

Meg Bear
Apr 28, 20101 min read


No good deed goes unpunished
Have you ever noticed the unique corporate irony that can happen to high performers?

Meg Bear
Apr 26, 20102 min read


Quotas won't work without a talent pipeline
The month of March is full of women. There is international women’s day, women’s history month and Ada Lovelace.

Meg Bear
Mar 17, 20103 min read
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More thoughts on Strategic [HR]
A few months back Steve Boese spent some time on the question about how to get more strategic.

Meg Bear
Dec 14, 20092 min read
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