The Future of Work | Reading resources & material

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The Way We Talk Around Here: How your organization’s culture shows up in your language and why it matters – Gill Ereaut, 2025

The Way We Talk Around Here: How your organization’s culture shows up in your language and why it matters �

Cathryn Barnard

2026-02-19 12:27

Gill Ereaut's new book The Way We Talk Around Here explores the way organisational language and workplace conversations shape culture.

Blog, future-of-work, 21st-century-leadership, strategic-foresight, foresight-focus, macro-trends, socio-cultural-trends, meta-trends,

WHY UNDERSTANDING FUTURE OF WORK META-TRENDS IS NOW A BUSINESS IMPERATIVE

Patrick Lodge

2026-02-19 11:15

The organisations that thrive in the next decade won't be the ones that reacted fastest. They'll be the ones that saw what was coming.

Reading Room, business-resilience, employee-engagement, future-of-work, 21st-century-leadership, human-centred-leadership, leadership-resilience, business-transformation, business-sustainability, vital-skills, enlightened-leadership,

The Next Conversation: Argue less, talk more - Jefferson Fisher, 2025

Cathryn Barnard

2026-01-21 19:44

The publication of this book is timely - and as a lawyer, Fisher knows a thing or two about how to have difficult conversations in heated environments.

Blog, future-of-work, 21st-century-leadership, strategic-foresight, foresight-focus, macro-trends, socio-cultural-trends, meta-trends,

7 THINGS WE’RE REGULARLY ASKED ABOUT FUTURE OF WORK META-TRENDS

Patrick Lodge

2026-01-16 11:12

What are people actually asking us when it comes to future of work meta-trends? Here are seven questions that crop up time and again...

Blog, business-resilience, future-of-work, organisational-purpose, organisational-agility, strategic-foresight, hybrid-work-strategy, future-of-work-strategy, scenario-planning, foresight-focus, business-planning,

WHY EVERY ORGANISATION MUST FACTOR WORK TRENDS INTO BUSINESS-PLANNING ACTIVITIES

Cathryn Barnard

2026-01-16 10:39

What if, instead of doubling down on conventional business thinking, leaders were to get curious, creative and experimental?

Reading Room, business-resilience, employee-engagement, future-of-work, 21st-century-leadership, human-centred-leadership, leadership-resilience, business-transformation, business-sustainability, vital-skills, enlightened-leadership,

It's Not Magic: The Ordinary Skills of Exceptional Leaders – John Amaechi, 2025

Cathryn Barnard

2025-11-24 13:00

It’s Not Magic positions humane leadership at the heart of organisational success...

Blog, future-of-work, continuous-learning, strategic-foresight, community-of-practice, emotional-intelligence, vital-skills, learning-agility, growth-mindset, personal-development-ampampamp-growth, asynco,

HOSTING A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE - WHAT HAVE I LEARNT?

Cathryn Barnard

2025-11-24 11:32

In late 2023, my colleagues Luis Suarez, Patrick Lodge and I embarked on an experiment. We set up an international online community of practice...

Blog, hybrid-work, future-of-work, collaboration, remote-work, community-of-practice, rto, enlightened-leadership, asynchronous-work,

ABUZZ WITH THE ASYNCO-NAUTS - OCTOBER'S HOT TOPICS

Patrick Lodge

2025-10-21 12:41

asynco is our international community of practice. Here's a round-up of the most buzzing topics on members' minds in October...

Reading Room, future-of-work, sustainability, sustainable-marketing, greenwashing, responsible-consumption,

Your Shopping Superpower: Follow your values and better your world one purchase at a time – Diane Osgood, 2025

Your Shopping Superpower: Follow your values and better your world one purchase at a time – Diane Osgood, 20

Cathryn Barnard

2025-10-20 12:52

Your Shopping Superpower is a compendium of resources to help shop more sustainably. It sets out why sustainable shopping matters and how to spot greenwashing.

Blog, business-resilience, future-of-work, organisational-purpose, organisational-agility, strategic-foresight, hybrid-work-strategy, future-of-work-strategy, scenario-planning, foresight-focus, business-planning,

HOW TO CREATE A FUTURE OF WORK STRATEGY

Cathryn Barnard

2025-09-25 12:57

It’s increasingly hard to plan but most futurists agree that striking a balance between setting a vision and yet remaining fluid as to how that vision will...

Blog, future-of-work, 21st-century-leadership, strategic-foresight, foresight-focus, macro-trends, socio-cultural-trends, meta-trends,

FIVE FUTURE OF WORK SOCIO-CULTURAL TRENDS YOU NEED TO BE ACROSS

Patrick Lodge

2025-09-25 12:32

The second of our blogs examining five of the ten key meta-trends reshaping work focuses on socio-cultural shifts...

Blog, hybrid-work, future-of-work, collaboration, remote-work, community-of-practice, rto, enlightened-leadership, asynchronous-work,

ABUZZ WITH THE ASYNCO-NAUTS - SEPTEMBER'S HOT TAKES

Patrick Lodge

2025-09-19 13:51

asynco is our international community of practice. Here's a round-up of the most buzzing topics on members' minds in September...

Reading Room, business-resilience, future-of-work, high-performing-teams, connection--belonging, team-dynamics, business-sustainability, connection-ampampampampamp-belonging,

Belonging: Unlock your potential with the ancient code of togetherness – Owen Eastwood, 2021

Cathryn Barnard

2025-09-17 13:16

Owen Eastwood helps world-class teams across sports, corporate, the military and the arts improve their performance. His approach, grounded in indigenous...

Blog, business-resilience, future-of-work, 21st-century-leadership, strategic-foresight, business-sustainability, globalisation, foresight-focus, enlightened-leadership, climate-chaos, industry-50, attention-disruption, business-planning,

FIVE FUTURE OF WORK MACRO-TRENDS YOU NEED TO BE ACROSS

Patrick Lodge

2025-09-09 13:14

We’ve identified five macro- and five socio-cultural trends most likely to reshape work in over the course of this decade. Let's look at the first of these...

Blog, business-resilience, future-of-work, ai, digital-transformation, business-transformation, strategic-foresight, technology-trends, vital-skills, foresight-focus, genai,

FOUR FUTURE OF WORK TRENDS CATCHING MY EYE THIS MONTH

Patrick Lodge

2025-09-08 14:46

Here are four emerging trends and perspectives on the myriad ways the future of work is evolving that caught Pat's eye this month…

Head Kandi, business-resilience, future-of-work, 21st-century-leadership, digital-transformation, intergenerational-dynamics, gen-z, enlightened-leadership,

Gen Z work trends are going mainstream - so what should the leadership response be?

Admin

2025-07-28 13:31

Gen Z workplace trends like ‘task masking’ and ‘micro-retirement’ are getting traction in the workplace - these call for enlightened leadership strategies...

Head Kandi, business-resilience, future-of-work, 21st-century-leadership, digital-transformation, intergenerational-dynamics, enlightened-leadership, agentic-ai, asynchronous-work,

Seven of the most interesting emergent future of work trends

Admin

2025-07-28 13:09

These unforeseen emerging developments are transforming the future of work, with the workplace evolving more rapidly than ever before...

Head Kandi, business-resilience, future-of-work, 21st-century-leadership, digital-transformation, enlightened-leadership,

What will the world of work look like in 2050?

Admin

2025-07-28 12:37

Many of today's work-related concepts may either be reimagined or rendered obsolete by then...

Reading Room, future-of-work, ai, digital-transformation, technology-trends, business-sustainability, connection-ampampampamp-belonging, enlightened-leadership,

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley – Marietje Schaake, 2024

Cathryn Barnard

2025-07-28 12:09

For anyone invested in the continuation of democracy, this is essential reading. We can’t respond to what we can’t see, and while it might be too late for...

Blog, future-of-work, collaboration, community-of-practice,

ABUZZ WITH THE ASYNCO-NAUTS - THE SUMMER'S HOT TOPICS

Patrick Lodge

2025-07-24 13:00

asynco is our international community of practice. Here's a round-up of the most buzzing topics on members' minds recently...

Working the Future reading resources & material

Welcome to Working the Future's reading room. Here are our recommendations for some great reads related to the future of work...