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Would You Keep Your Most Valuable Possessions In The Vault Of A Company That Might One Day Just Close Their Doors And Block You From Getting All Your Stuff Back? A few years ago … let’s call at it the ‘advent of social’, common wisdom suggested ‘Email is dead … long live Social’. If you know me, you will not be surprised to learn that I disagreed with ‘common wisdom’.

Photo by Darius Bashar on Unsplash  After my unscheduled hiatus, I have been thinking about the podcast. It is going to be different. I mean everything is going to be different. Isn’t it? Why would the podcast not be different? I recorded the first one earlier this week (don’t worry - you didn’t miss it - I haven’t dropped it yet). If you know me, you’ll know that I definitely err on the side of ten words where one will do … I’m working on it!

You can read the article here. It’s not really a question as to whether New Zealand is being left behind. I think there are many countries facing this challenge … but the question is what is the challenge? I ask because I believe that there is a massive conflation of this as people make their arguments.. Does a 4 day week mean Working 40 hours in 4 days OR are we really talking about reducing the number of hours of a standard week to 32 hours?

Don’t get too excited - it’s a McKinsey paper.  The future of personalization - and how to get ready for it. Physical spaces will be ‘digitized’Empathy will scaleBrands will use ecosystems to personalize journeys end-to-end ... wait - what? "Empathy will scale." You can't make this stuff up. Talk about buzzword compliance! Then - when I was looking for a suitable image to use for this post ... I came across this doozy from Sitecorp.