What’s next?
The human race has achieved incredible technical progress…yet we're often inept at working with each other towards shared goals. What's going wrong? Dysfunctional meetings; poor working relationships; you've seen it, felt it.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.”
-- Bertrand Russell, 10th May 1933.
1. Start-up.
With some collaborators, I'm building an automated coach for emotionally-intelligent meetings.
It will help professionals connect with each other, by revealing the hidden dimensions to conversations. When communications are going wrong, it helps read between the lines, find blindspots, and turn things around.
The software will be based on sentiment analysis algorithms, combined with psychological frameworks and facilitation tools. It will plug into existing video conference platforms, and will provide gentle feedback and nudges to participants if/when it is invited.
Get early access here: whispers.tech
With some collaborators, I'm building an automated coach for emotionally-intelligent meetings.
It will help professionals connect with each other, by revealing the hidden dimensions to conversations. When communications are going wrong, it helps read between the lines, find blindspots, and turn things around.
The software will be based on sentiment analysis algorithms, combined with psychological frameworks and facilitation tools. It will plug into existing video conference platforms, and will provide gentle feedback and nudges to participants if/when it is invited.
Get early access here: whispers.tech
2. Book.
I'm writing an immersive journey through the reality of economic development work. It’s an 'inside story' of life at the World Bank.
It will be fresh, entertaining, with a candid message: Well-meaning human beings frequently sabotage their own success through inept social dynamics. Initiatives are half-hearted; key individuals are not onboard; impact is short-lived or worse.
The book will include three case studies of my work in Swaziland, South Africa and Croatia, focusing on issues that we can touch and see: cities, industries, and regions. A happy ship of technical excellence was crashed by the waves of interpersonal relationships, rocky institutional relationships, and the winds of political discontinuity.
How can we break out of this cycle? I propose that development professionals can make a breakthrough by becoming Facilitators, to...help their counterparts discover a path forward...build relationships...deepen knowledge...generate a collective intelligence.
If you read it I hope you'll laugh, think, then do some things differently.
I'm writing an immersive journey through the reality of economic development work. It’s an 'inside story' of life at the World Bank.
It will be fresh, entertaining, with a candid message: Well-meaning human beings frequently sabotage their own success through inept social dynamics. Initiatives are half-hearted; key individuals are not onboard; impact is short-lived or worse.
The book will include three case studies of my work in Swaziland, South Africa and Croatia, focusing on issues that we can touch and see: cities, industries, and regions. A happy ship of technical excellence was crashed by the waves of interpersonal relationships, rocky institutional relationships, and the winds of political discontinuity.
How can we break out of this cycle? I propose that development professionals can make a breakthrough by becoming Facilitators, to...help their counterparts discover a path forward...build relationships...deepen knowledge...generate a collective intelligence.
If you read it I hope you'll laugh, think, then do some things differently.