The Next Few Years WilLead to Great Innovation

The distinction between work and home is, of course, now massively blurred. Your video call gets interrupted by your who needs help with her homeschooling. Attention is blurred by a sequence of scheduled calls/videos and the unscheduled. Measuring “progress” at work also gets blurred. Things are moving at one of two speeds: much slower and kind of like in slow motion as organizations assess where things are going… and really, really fast as companies are in survival mode.

• WhatsApp groups as slack channels (with friends across the world, extended family, colleagues).
• Upgrading broadband to fibre a few weeks ago (otherwise not sure five concurrent streams would work for us all).
• Bought a trampoline when we realised we might be at home with kids for an extended period… lifesaver.

• The Uninhabitable Earth: life after warming by David Wallace-Wells. To get us thinking about the* Other* Global issue we should tackle when we emerge from this climate crisis.
• Edison by Edmund Morris — a biography of Thomas Edison 
• Coffeeland: A History by Augustine Sedgewick 
• The Age of Living Machines by Susan Hockfield, former MIT President 
• Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up by Jerry Colonna  

As an entrepreneur, fundraising has already changed but that might not be a bad thing. Investors are resetting to this new normal but all those I have spoken to agree that the next few years are likely to lead to great innovation.