barryflack1

Summary : Your HR processes admin brilliantly but miss systemic dysfunction bleeding value. Fractional thinkers diagnose structural failures (misaligned rewards to decision bottlenecks) before crises emerge. There’s been a quiet resignation happening in SME boardrooms over the last few years. Not the hyperbolic TikTok kind. The kind where CEOs have quietly accepted that their HR is just…limiting and administrative. The scaling Tech Bros have realised that converting that young recruiter into...

Summary : Your HR Tech must amplify an adaptive culture. Fix hierarchy by decentralising decisions, increasing transparency, and granting autonomy before investing in software to avoid automating dysfunction. I often get asked: “ Barry, What tech stack should we be using now in this new, emerging world of AI-first organisations ?” Wrong question . Whilst I’ll tackle it in this article, tech should always be an ( important ) afterthought. If your structure, organisational system and therefore...

The Hunger Gets Lost Naturally, after a while, most SME leaders I meet have subconsciously shifted from growth mode to stability mode. Sadly, many have dropped to survival mode. But honestly? That shift makes complete sense at the time. Let me be clear: I have nothing but respect for those operating over the last few decades in an environment that’s been one bin fire after another. Let’s remind ourselves one more time: Post-2008 Financial Crisis: The aftermath of the financial crisis left...