2023
The Times
In times of a “polycrisis,” adaptability and resilience are the hallmarks of effective leadership. There are two types of challenges encountered throughout a career: “era challenges” and “life-stage challenges”. Th...
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In the midst of a big shift brought by Generative AI, we are in a global arena of dialogue and experimentation. Leaders are grappling with the nuances of deploying Generative AI, and what this means in the human capital domain. Read Lynda’s tho...
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Mick Jagger isn’t just a rock legend, but a “social pioneer” challenging ageist assumptions. Mick reminds us of the power of mastery, comradery, and defying convention. Happy 80th! Read Lynda’s thoughts on what Mick can teach ...
Read MoreThe Times
What if humans had wings? This intriguing question sparked a conversation in Lynda Gratton’s latest column for The Times where she explores human creativity and its relationship with generative AI. While AI continues to advance rapidly, Lynda r...
Read More“The 100-Year Life,” co-authored with Andrew Scott, has exceeded one million copies sold and is now available in 15 languages. Thank you to the lifelong learners who have joined on this journey of navigating longevity and shaping a fulfil...
Read MoreHarvard Business Review
Professor Lynda Gratton has been awarded the prestigious Warren Bennis Prize for her article “Managers Can’t Do It All.” The award, administered jointly by Harvard Business Review and the USC Marshall School of Business, celebrates ...
Read MoreThe Times
In a world where constant connectivity has become the norm, it’s crucial to address the impact on our well-being and mental health. While the idea of a “right to switch off” seems appealing, the real solution lies in accommodating h...
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In a world where AI is advancing rapidly, it’s no surprise that tech billionaires like Elon Musk call for increased regulation. The concern is that machines are increasingly capable of performing complex analytical tasks, potentially leading to...
Read MoreRedesigning Work has been awarded the Bronze Axiom medal in the Business Disruption / Reinvention Category, 2023. Lynda’s mission with Redesigning Work is to ensure that companies emerge from the pandemic with a more flexible and human-centric ...
Read MoreHarvard Business Review
The post-lockdown period presented a unique opportunity to implement a new hybrid work model. However, we must accept that the process of transformation will likely take several years to fully integrate. Therefore, leaders should treat this shift as ...
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Working families and the household decrease in unpaid time during a week are a ticking time bomb. Over the last 80 years, families have seen a shift in the balance of their household paid/unpaid ratios, reducing available time for the non-work aspect...
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It is important that we acknowledge the potential for complexity in work-based friendships. The power differentials in work friendships can create complications. And while all relationships are to some extent transactional, working relationships are ...
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During the pandemic an unfreeze in the ways of working took place. Our traditional assumptions were questioned; new skills were learnt; and new attitudes developed. For more than half of workers the workplace became the home, and time became more fle...
Read MoreHack The Future
The pandemic saw an ‘unfreeze’ of traditional ways of working and a mass shift to remote working, as a result, organisations learnt that people could work remotely and still be productive. As we move into the next ‘refreeze’ stage of redesign...
Read MoreHR Magazine
The pandemic created an extraordinary collective unfreeze of practices and processes. Employees dropped some traditional work habits, developed new skills and changed their networks. Now in the refreeze stage, many executive teams are in the process ...
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With the initial excitement of the pandemic and new ways of working over, fear of failure now weighs heavily on many leaders tasked with managing new workplace expectations. These fears have only increased as the Great Resignation has left leaders hy...
Read MoreThe Financial Times
While we know back-to-back meetings are likely to reduce your daily productivity when it comes to work, we are also taking away time from that messy, unpredictable business of making friends. When we make friends, we strengthen our resilience and mak...
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During the pandemic, we know that we had fewer work relationships. And we have realised is that friendship is so crucial. We know that friendship plays a really important role in why we stay at work and why we become more engaged at work. So, if you...
Read MoreThe Evolving Leader Podcast
What should organisations be doing to support the wellbeing of their teams? There are actions that leaders, managers and employees can all take that will have a huge impact on people’s wellbeing within an organisation. Leaders create a huge impact ...
Read MoreThink at London Business School
None of the opportunities created by the pandemic are going to stick, unless we can work in ways that make us more productive, more innovative, more creative. Leaders must craft their unique approach to redesigning work, there is no one-size-fits-all...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal
If the office is going to be a place for cooperation, we need to design our spaces to encourage it. The idea that before the pandemic we spent all our time wandering around having water cooler conversations, in most cases was actually not the case. W...
Read MoreStrategy + Business
Connections and networks are crucial in building culture, and the flow of knowledge and insights. During the pandemic networks shrank, people working from home spent more time with those they already knew well and less time with people they knew less...
Read MoreThe New Human Movement
To successfully redesign work we need to first truly understand our organisations. First, we need to understand jobs. We have to ask ourselves how we are going to help people be as creative and productive as possible. If the changes we make now don...
Read MoreTortoise Media
Two years into the COVID19 pandemic and people in the UK are feeling things return to some semblance of normality. Adapting global businesses and habits to a new structure of working requires a significant effort and a fundamental re-learning. Profes...
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Many leaders are feeling stuck between the certainties of the past and the unknowns of the future. People are now looking inward – they are looking at the changes they have made over the past two years and are now beginning to imagine what they cou...
Read MoreRaconteur
Many businesses were forced to pivot and reorganise in the aftermath of the first lockdown measures, but how many of these changes will remain after two years of Covid? The biggest change that has occurred over the past two years is that businesses r...
Read MoreFinancial Times
We are experiencing the greatest global shift in work for a century. We now have an astounding opportunity to redesign work and create a more flexible and human-centric way of working. Companies and their leaders who are being creative and imaginativ...
Read MoreHSM Advisory and Fujitsu Limited have published a joint research report on the current state and future of hybrid work, which sits at the convergence of the digital and real-world. The report introduces Fujitsu and HSM Advisory’s Sustainable High P...
Read MoreRedesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone HSM Advisory CEO and Founder, Professor Lynda Gratton, presents the ultimate guide to redesigning your organisation, from the global thought-leader on the future ...
Read MoreEat Sleep Work Repeat with Bruce Daisley
As we head into 2022, practices and norms will naturally freeze in place once again, creating a unique window before they do for leaders to reshape their organizations and deepen the trust of their employees. In the latest episode of the Eat Sleep Wo...
Read MoreLeadership NOW with Dan Pontefract
As companies emerge from the pandemic leaders, managers and employees together must ensure we create a more flexible and human-centric way of working. In a new episode of the Leadership NOW podcast with Dan Pontefract Prof. Lynda Gratton discusses th...
Read MoreHarvard Business Review
In recent decades sweeping reengineering, digitization, and agile initiatives—and lately the move to remote work—have dramatically transformed the role of managers. In her latest article for Harvard Business Review, co-authored by former CHRO of ...
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Looking back at the onset of the protective measures brought on by the pandemic, few of us anticipated that the mass shift to hybrid working would give rise to the ‘Great Resignation’. In her latest column for the MIT Sloan Management Review, Lyn...
Read MoreThinkers50
Professor Lynda Gratton is proud to announce being ranked among the Top 50 thinkers in management and business on the 2021 Thinkers50 list. The Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years and is considered the essent...
Read MorePictet Asset Management
People are living longer, and are healthier for longer. The way that we live, too, is shifting as we move into an ageing society. It is therefore inevitable that the way we choose to live our lives, will also change. But how should organisations a...
Read MoreTortoise Media
How do we prepare for today for the labour market of tomorrow? This is the question Professor Lynda Gratton explored in a webinar in partnership with Felix Tran, Thematic Strategist at Bank of America, and Investigations Editor Alexi Mostrous at Tor...
Read MoreBBC Worklife
‘The problem with losing “osmosis learning”‘, BBC Worklife by Anna Jones. As we shift to a more hybrid way of working, the way we think about learning must shift with us. As we are increasingly thinking about how to maximise ...
Read MorePeople Management
‘Professor Lynda Gratton: “I’ve seen a lot of fads come and go – I hope this won’t be one”, People Management by Eleanor Whitehouse. For many organisations, hybrid is here to stay. Professor Lynda Gratton has been ...
Read MorePenguin Business
Professor Lynda Gratton is delighted to announce her collaboration with Penguin Publishing Group on her eleventh book, ‘Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone’, published in Spring 2022. ...
Read MoreMIT Sloan Management Review
‘Melding Flexibility and Connectivity in the Workplace’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 9th August 2021 Leaders want employees that are agile and readily available, and people relish autonomy and flexibility. But many of t...
Read MoreThe People Space
One of the exciting things right now is that we currently have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to redesign work to ensure that it’s meaningful, productive and impactful for everyone. But what does that involve? In a recent mini-webinar for The Peo...
Read MoreForbes
‘Drive To Hybrid Working Highlights Need For Focus On New Skills’, Forbes by Roger Trapp. 26th July 2021 Our societal and workplace responses to the pandemic have been varied – and at times surprising. The way we perform our roles and t...
Read MoreLondon Business School
‘Any time anywhere: what does hybrid mean for your business?’, London Business School by Lynda Gratton. Organisations are starting to realise that employees can work productively wherever and whenever they choose. Leaders must ensure that...
Read MoreReset Work
‘Organisations are now ‘unfrozen’ and can change before they ‘refreeze”, Reset Work by Lynda Gratton and Kevin Delaney. Prior to the pandemic, the way that most companies operated was fairly “frozen”. Now, as...
Read MoreBloomberg Businessweek
‘What Managers Are Telling Workers About Returning to the Office’, Bloomberg Businessweek by Sarah Green Carmichael. 14th May 2021 Managers are making tentative plans to reopen offices. This results in a whole host of questions from emplo...
Read MoreMIT Sloan Management Review
‘What Happens if ‘Absorbing by Observation’ Disappears?’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 12th May 2021 Over the years, we have witnessed many different ways of supporting young people as they learn about a job and a com...
Read MoreThe Financial Times
‘The New Long Life: A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World’, Financial Times Forum event with Lynda Gratton and Andrew J Scott. 20th April 2020 Smart new technologies. Longer, healthier lives. Human progress has risen to great he...
Read MoreHarvard Business Review
‘How to Do Hybrid Right’, Harvard Business Review by Lynda Gratton. 13th April 2021 Since the pandemic, companies have adopted the technologies of virtual work remarkably quickly—and employees are seeing the advantages of more flexibili...
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‘An Emerging Landscape of Skills for All’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 7th April 2021 A year on from the start of the pandemic, many of us are pausing to reflect on the effect it has had on our lives and our work, and in...
Read MoreCapita Podcast
‘From Incremental to Exponential: Capita Podcast Series – Lynda Gratton’, with Ismail Amla and Vivek Wadhwa. 1st April 2021 Lynda Gratton recently joined Ismail Amla and Vivek Wadhwa on the Capita podcast to discuss how we can use o...
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‘Resilience Is The Key For Leaders In Professional Services Firms’, Forbes by Roger Trapp. 28th February 2021 Most attention during the pandemic has understandably focused on the death toll and hospitalisations of those hit by the virus. ...
Read MoreLondon Business School
‘Time to Rethink Your Company Culture’, London Business School by Lynda Gratton. 31st March 2021 Working remotely might mean greater autonomy and flexibility, but it also means no serendipitous connections in the office communal kitchen, ...
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‘Why Leaders Must Return Skills To The Top Of Their Agendas’, Forbes by Roger Trapp. 30th January 2021 It is becoming increasingly clear that we will never return to old ways of working. Leaders are realising that this is only the start o...
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‘Where’s the spark? How lockdown caused a creativity crisis’, The Financial Times by Emma Jacobs. 18th January 2021 This Financial Times article by Emma Jacobs explores the impact of mass remote working on creativity and innovation. She...
Read MoreLondon Business School
‘The Future of Work Came Faster Than We Thought’, London Business School by Lynda Gratton. 19 December 2020 Covid-19 has accelerated societal and technological trends that were already starting to gather pace. But new challenges have also...
Read MoreMIT Sloan Management Review Webinar
‘Optimising Productivity in a Time of Hybrid Work’, MIT Sloan Management Review Webinar with Lynda Gratton. 18th November 2020 Most of us are still experimenting with both time and place of work. We’re flexing around the 9-to-5 notio...
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‘Four Principles to Ensure Hybrid Work is Productive Work’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 9th November 2020 Organisations have become more flexible about where and when employees work. Now they need to be more intentional ...
Read MoreManagement Today
‘How to create virtual water cooler moments’, Management Today by Stephen Jones. 13th October 2020 Collaboration often depends on serendipitous office interactions that aren’t easily replicated on Zoom. Among the biggest cultural c...
Read MoreREBA
‘Three Principles for Fairness in Reward During COVID-19’, REBA by Lynda Gratton and Harriet Molyneaux. 12th October 2021 As companies transition to a hybrid way of working, fairness is moving to the top of leaders’ agendas. As organisa...
Read MoreMIT Sloan Management Review
‘The Pandemic’s Lessons for Managing Uncertainty’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, old norms and habits we set aside have been replaced by new ones, which are now sufficiently em...
Read MoreThe Telegraph
‘How Covid-19, AI and a rising life expectancy will transform the office’, The Telegraph by Robin Pagnamenta. 13th July 2020 In the space of a few months, many of our future of work predictions have taken shape. But with a major recession...
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‘How Employers Need To Change For Employees’ Longer Lives’, Forbes by Lynda Gratton and Andrew J Scott. 23rd June 2020 It is imperative that corporate practice catches up with the needs of a hundred-year life, the ebb and flow that ...
Read MoreMIT Sloan Management Review
‘How to Increase Collaborative Productivity in a Pandemic’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 8th June 2020 It’s impossible to know the exact contours of what’s ahead for our societies and global economy. What we do kn...
Read MoreLynda Gratton and Andrew Scott’s new book, ‘The New Long Life: A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World’ launches on Thursday 28 May. Smart new technologies. Longer, healthier lives. Human progress has risen to great hei...
Read MoreThe Times
‘The New Normal – What Life After Coronavirus Will Look Like’, The Times by Lynda Gratton and Andrew J Scott. 24th May 2020 How we live and work has been completely transformed. Covid-19 has triggered such an immense wave of social...
Read MoreThe Nikkei
‘Time to experiment with 4-day working weeks’, The Nikkei by Lynda Gratton and Andrew J Scott. 23rd May 2020 In their interview with the Nikkei Asian Review, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott discuss how they expect more flexible work patter...
Read MoreHSM Webinar
‘The Pandemic and Leadership’, HSM Webinar with Lynda Gratton and Dr Anna Gurun. 22nd May 2020 In the fourth installment of the HSM pandemic webinar series, Prof. Lynda Gratton explored the role of leaders during the current context, and ...
Read MoreThe Financial Times
‘Coronavirus has transformed work but risks snuffing out a creative spark’, The Financial Times by Lynda Gratton. 21st May 2020 We have successfully adapted to remote working, but now we must fight for moments that drive innovation. In he...
Read MoreMIT Sloan Management Review
‘How to Help Employees Work From Home With Kids’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 27th April 2020 Many of us are now working from home, but for parents, this can come with a number of new challenges. The family distraction p...
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‘Three Elements for Successful Virtual Working’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 6th April 2020 The lessons we have learnt from past waves of virtual working – how to acknowledge and balance the roles of technology, so...
Read MoreLondon Business School Pandemic Webinar
‘Leading Through a Pandemic: Working Virtually’, LBS Pandemic Webinar Series with Lynda Gratton and Julian Birkinshaw. 18th March 2020 Suddenly we’re all trying to figure out how to work virtually. Lynda has been researching and consult...
Read MoreOur Brain At Work Podcast
‘How Do Humans Fit into the Future of Work?’, Your Brain at Work Podcast with Lynda Gratton and Dr. David Rock. 16th September 2019 Lynda Gratton believes the human experience is fundamentally shifting. It’s moving away from the three-s...
Read MoreAACSB
‘Leading With Impact in the New World of Work’, AACSB with Lynda Gratton. 21st August 2019 Influential leaders in the global business and educational environments share the key attributes necessary for demonstrating impactful leadership i...
Read MoreForbes
‘The Study, Work, Retire Model Is Broken As We Live Until 100’, Forbes by Pavel Krapivin. 13th August 2019 Much of life over the past century conformed to the three-stage model of study, work, retire. It’s a model that was predicated on...
Read MoreMIT Sloan Management Review
‘New Frontiers in Re-skilling and Upskilling’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 8th July 2019 In the new world of work, we may not know for sure which jobs will be destroyed and what will be created, but one thing is clear: E...
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‘It’s Time to Make Paternity Leave Work’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 8th January 2019 Imagine that you’ll live to 100 years — perhaps a little less, perhaps a little more. Those extra years will be a gift, offerin...
Read MoreBBC Radio 4
‘Retiring Retirement’, BBC Radio 4 with Lynda Gratton and David Baker. 19th August 2018 Life expectancy is going up, pensions are declining. Meanwhile the official retirement age has been abolished, while the age at which you can draw your state ...
Read MoreLynda Gratton has been named as one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices 2018 in the UK. The Top Voices list – now in its fourth year – celebrates influencers who have used the platform to get the professional world talking. Specifically, it looks at the U...
Read MoreThe Financial Times
‘Japan begins to embrace the 100-year life’, The Financial Times by Leo Lewis. 8th August 2018 When The 100-Year Life first appeared in mid-2016, the book about longevity and societal change sold only modestly in the west. Some took it as an insp...
Read MoreMIT Sloan Management Review
‘The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 6th August 2018 It is becoming increasingly clear that for most working people, a proportion of the working tasks they currently perform will be either complete...
Read MoreDavos 2018
‘Davos 2018: The Imperatives For Job Reskilling’, by Lynda Gratton. 31st January 2018 The mood at Davos 2018 was more upbeat than last year. Recall that in January 2017 those gathered on the snowy peaks were confronted by two unforeseen e...
Read MoreMIT Sloan Management Review
‘The Long Journey to Understanding Intangible Assets’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton. 5th January 2018 Imagine that you are 30 years old and looking forward to a working life that could last well into your late 70s. You’ll be wor...
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‘The Corporate Implications of Longer Lives’, MIT Sloan Management Review by Lynda Gratton and Andrew J. Scott. 1st March 2017 People are living longer and working longer – but few organisations have come to grips with the opportunities and cha...
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