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colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Not talking about AI, RTO, data scandals in academia, Gen Z attitudes to work, & irrational & rational behaviours. And why we need to talk about workplace trauma.
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The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 171

#futureofwork #leadership #trauma #decrapifywork
Things I’d rather ignore and other stuff
And a thing we need to talk about
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December 2, 2024 at 10:39 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Flying cars, GIGO, why how we learn about the world stops us imagining the future, why we need Pirates 🏴‍☠️ and problems with AI. It's not what you think it's going to be.

The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 173

#futureofwork #leadership #AI #decrapifywork
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The future is coming
But not like you think
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December 16, 2024 at 11:20 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Hypernormalisation, corporate fantasy world, how corporates have dropped the mask and why Gen Z could be canaries in the coalmine.

The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 182

#futureofwork #leadership #trust #decrapifywork

Making sense of non-sense open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Making sense of non-sense
When reality is just too much
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March 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
A healthy dollop of AI scepticism: the problems of getting people to use tech, how solutions create new problems & why growth from AI might not be transformational.

The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter no 177

#futureofwork #leadership #AI #decrapifywork
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Making contact with reality
More AI scepticism, written by a human
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January 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Small things you can do to improve work, why you can't tweak your way to transformation and the need for starting with brutal honesty.

#futureofwork #leadership #change #decrapifywork
Decrapify YOUR work
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Decrapify YOUR work
Self help or self flagellation?
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October 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
The duality facing us about AI, how it's damaging companies, adding to cognitive load and perhaps being applied to the wrong things.

The decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 188

#futureofwork #leadership #AI #decrapifywork
The AI conundrum open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
The AI conundrum
Is it good and bad for work?
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April 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
THAT Work from Home BBC documentary, bifurcation, Employment is Dead (maybe), Deep Seek and how politics is at the bottom of it all.

The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 178

#futureofwork #leadership #AI #DecrapifyWork
Work, Tech, Politics open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Work, Tech, Politics
The usual blend of blathering
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February 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Recruitment as an example of a broken process, contradictions and disconnects, rational responses to the corporate madness and dealing with the damage

Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter #198

#futureofwork #leadership #decrapifywork
You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here
Reflections
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July 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
About how COVID changed work forever because it changed us. Now we know other ways are possible, the old way is just about control and the deal isn't worth it anymore.

The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter no 184

#futureofwork #leadership #hybrid #decrapifywork
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The Day Work Changed Forever
Because we did too
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March 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
We take less holiday than medieval peasants, why work's not as important as you think and why you need rest to perform at your best (obvs, innit?)

Decrapify Work No. 201

#futureofwork #leadership #holidays #decrapifywork
More Sun, Less Scroll
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More Sun, Less Scroll
School’s Out
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July 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
It turns out I don't have a downer on big organisations, they really are that bad and they don't even bother hiding it anymore, dumping DEI & policing language. And why we put up with it.

The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 181

#leadership #ethics #decrapifywork
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The Pretence Is Over
They’re saying the quiet bit out loud
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February 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
A quick scurry through systems thinking and points of leverage; how this helps understand the best ways to decrapify work; and explain the tension behind the RTO/WFH bunfight

#futureofwork #leadership #systemsthinking #decrapifywork
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January 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
About the need to see two perspectives at once; Tactical & Strategic; Self and System; Micro & Macro; and McGlichrist's ideas on left and right brain hemispheres (The Master and the Emmisary).
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#futureofwork #leadership #selfawareness #decrapifywork
November 18, 2024 at 12:29 PM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
'Moral Mazes', how playing the game means more than doing the job, why the wrong people get to the top of hierarchies and how it's all driven by human nature

The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter no 180

#futureofwork #leadership #management #decrapifywork
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Same as it ever was
Sucking up gets success
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February 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Why being nice is taking a knife to a gun-fight, why the worse people to lead end up in charge, why we need to stop the bastards winning ... basically, the one where Colin loses it a bit.

#futureofwork #leadership #truth #decrapifywork
Straight Talking open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Straight Talking
Time to call a spade a bloody shovel
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April 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Why leading and leadership are different, RTO mandates lead to CEO exits (Boo Hoo!), and a thoroughly inappropriate use of AI (no, I don't mean porn).

The Decrapify Work Newsletter no 196

#futureofwork #leadership #AI #decrapifywork
Leading or Leadership? open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Leading or Leadership?
What’s your aim?
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June 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
The simple way to decrapify work, Michelin's 8 guiding principles, the real reasons bosses don't do any of this and my new substack.

The Decrapify Work Not Newsletter no 191

#futureofwork #leadership #decrapifywork
Simple but hard open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Simple but hard
Why organisations don’t change
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May 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Chaos as a management style; courts, kings and the inter-regnum; your chaos is my complicated.

The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter no 179

#futureofwork #leaderships #management #decrapifywork
Chaos monkeys open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Chaos monkeys
There’s method in their madness
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February 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Why organisations should not ignore the lived experiences of their employees; learning 'craft' in the AI age; age-old truths still apply, even to AI.

The Decrapify Work Newsletter No 194

#futureofwork #leadership #selfknowledge #decrapifywork
Ancient Wisdom open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Ancient Wisdom
And modern madness
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June 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
A frankly startling set of values, the secret to happy employees that will blow your socks off, how this chaos might have a silver lining and why are jobs so crap?

The Decrapify Work Not-Newsletter 187

#futureofwork #leadership #values #decrapifywork
Unbelievable open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Unbelievable
It's madness, Jim, but not as we know it
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April 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
AT&T CEO goes full sociopath; Lord Mark Price goes full cuddly & says people have a right to be happy; why 'leaders' ignore the data and keep doing things that aren't working.

Decrapify Work newsletter no 202

#futureofwork #leadership #happiness #decrapifywork

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September 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Fascism as a management philosophy (no, really!), chaos monkeys, the 'Infinite Workday' and the latest Work Punks episode.

The Decrapify Work newsletter 197

#futureofwork #leadership #AI #DecrapifyWork
CEO as Supreme Leader open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
CEO as Supreme Leader
Bend the knee, serf!
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July 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Why we need to shift from efficiency to potential, why it seems unlikely, but also where the pioneers are who are giving us hope

#leadership #futureofwork #potential #decrapifywork

Efficiency is not potential
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Efficiency is not potential
The importance of looking up, not down
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September 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Alpha male hustle culture, Meta's layoff cruelty, will there be a backlash and is the USA throwing away its leadership of business practices?

Warning: may contain Dad jokes

The Decrapify Work Not-Newseltter no 189

#futureofwork #leadership #culture #decrapifywork
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Performative Cruelty
The new mantra of the macho CEOs?
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April 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Why people are disengaged & disconnected from work, the corporate gig as performative and hollow, thoughts on what to do if trapped in it in mid-career.

The Decrapify Newsletter 203

#futureofwork #leadership #purpose #decrapifywork
The corporate gig has changed
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The corporate gig has changed
More of a jig than a job?
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September 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM