Paul Levy, author of book Digital Inferno, and senior lecturer at Brighton Business School shares a fourfold model for working during the Covid19 pandemic and beyond.
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WATCH: Different Ways of Working: Now and in the Future
Paul Levy explores four different but connected ways of working.
WATCH: Going Back to Work During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many people have got used to working from home. Paul Levy considers the challenges of going back to work and continuing to work from home.
WATCH: Why do we collude with each other?
Why do we collude with each other? Do we settle for mediocrity because we fear the discomfort of being truly honest ? And does it affect our ability to be creative and innovative?
WATCH: Raising your thinking 6 – The power and importance of listening and silence
When we slow down, listen properly, value silence and let what we hear and think about “sink in”, we raise the quality of out thinking, and there are many resulting benefits.
WATCH: Raising your thinking 5 – Noticing and Acknowledging
I’m in a supermarket cafe ! I’m practising Noticing and Acknowledging – a process of reducing the impact of noise distraction on the quality of your thinking. Both are a form of powerful and gentle inquiry into the world around you.
WATCH: Raising your thinking 3 Initiating Your Own thinking
A broad look at what happens when we neglect our own thinking, and how important it is to be the initiator of our thinking. What happens when most of our daily experience is determined and influenced by the thinking of others and not met with our own active thinking?
WATCH: Raising Your Thinking 2: When our thinking becomes a slave
What happens when our thinking becomes a tool for other people and even corporations? What happens when you are the initiator of your own thinking? This short talk explores how we can let our thinking wither and also how we can recover it and become more free in doing so.
WATCH: Raising your thinking 1
In the first of a series of short reflections, author Paul Levy looks at how to reduce distraction and raise the quality of our thinking. Distraction can be a significant degrader of the quality of our thinking if it takes the form of ongoing distraction, from moment to moment. Digital distraction is a major example….
WATCH: The Abuse of Advocacy
What happens when we create cultures that value telling over listening, that prioritise adocacy over inquiry? In this short video, I look at how obsessive telling can become a kind of abuse
WATCH: Your Startup May Need to Start Up Twice, Or Even More!
A successful startup business rarely begins with one big burst of a launch. I suggest there will be several early journeys in the voyage to longer term success.
WATCH: Stepping into Inconvenient Variety
This was my new year reflection for 2020. What are the consequences of living in a binary world, a life of either-or, of one or zero? Life has a quality where the spaces in between the ones and zeros may contain the telling content…
Watch: The Four Modes of Working During Covid-19
In this short video, Paul Levy shares a model of four different ways to work effectively during the Covid-19 Crisis and beyond.