Work baby work ⛏️
Work Christine Armstrong Work Christine Armstrong

Work baby work ⛏️

The choice couldn’t be starker. Leaders are going to have to make decisions about the kind of work they want to create in either system. And then show it works for their teams.

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Save 3 Hours a Week with AI, In 3 Minutes!
AI Christine Armstrong AI Christine Armstrong

Save 3 Hours a Week with AI, In 3 Minutes!

Are you an AI cat or dog?

I am meeting a lot of AI cats on my travels. People who distrust AI but truthfully haven’t used it. They have often banned it in their offices (and believe that younger colleagues are not using it secretly ), have commissioned long strategic plans for its use in the future and say that it cannot be trusted because it hallucinates. Which it does. Sometimes.

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Five autumn resets for happiness
Refresh Christine Armstrong Refresh Christine Armstrong

Five autumn resets for happiness

Welcome back!

September is my January 📆. Albeit, a better moment for a refresh while the holidays are fresh and before the dark of winter starts to gnawing at my soul.

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Never lose perspective again
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Never lose perspective again

Interviewing people who have been in a job for a long time can be unsettling. They sometimes experience working life in extremely intense and vivid ways. Details feel significant, overwhelming and stressful.

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Productivity advice misses the point
Productivity Christine Armstrong Productivity Christine Armstrong

Productivity advice misses the point

Our friend, Chris Mitchell, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean this year. He and teammate, Robbie Laidlaw, raised over £250,000 for charity — an incredible achievement. Chris and Robbie have been given awards, written about, and invited onto stages, podcasts, and panels to talk about their epic row and the three years of work that led to it.

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Never see productivity advice the same way again
Productivity Christine Armstrong Productivity Christine Armstrong

Never see productivity advice the same way again

I’ve been interviewing people with complicated lives who still get a huge amount done.

People who rely on carers to get out of bed. Kids with additional needs. Parents who can’t remember if they ate their dinner or left it in the microwave. Or any combination of these and other challenges.

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You can’t unscramble this egg
AI Christine Armstrong AI Christine Armstrong

You can’t unscramble this egg

Half-term has been all about chasing my kids around theme parks and water slides. Their enthusiasm for new experiences, especially the thrill of being thrown into the air, never ceases to amaze me.

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