Phil Simon has published over 14 business books over the last 20 years, on everything from data science and visualization to platform company domination, to zoom for dummies, and most recently, a focus on the future of work.
In Phil's latest book, The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace, he focuses on what I might call the mega-trends, like sunlight, they impact everything on the planet, and dives into the impact on work, workers, and the workplace, in this 4th book in the in a mini-series on the future of work.
We didn't touch on all nine, but we explored a few of my favorites in detail, as their impacts reach beyond the work into everything we do. Automation, digitization, dispersion, factions, and more. With the accompanying law of unintended consequences.
Phil is well read, and well written, a huge fan of Breaking Bad and pushing barriers. If you enjoy quotes, laws, power dynamics, and the difficulty in assessing talent, come for employee empowerment, and stay for the unhealthy analytics. Nick Bloom to Goodhart's Law, Mark Twain to Darko Miličić, GenAI, Blockchain, we traveled.
And with all that, what it's like to be an author in 2023 when 43% of people don’t read a single book in a year, while Amazon has to limit author submissions to 3 books per day. Three books a day? Can you say generative AI.
Phil's a fun conversation
Laughs and Seinfeld quotes are generally in the making.
Transcript and show notes
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