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Bill Jensen

Director, Strategy and Transformation at The Jensen Group

Dix Hills, United States

Seasoned Strategist and Proven Problem Solver: Expert in strategy, leading complex, tech-driven, global, enterprise-wide transformations and change programs.

WHAT I DO: I translate Digital Transformation into People Transformation — making it EASIER for you and your teams to do great work, and double your productivity. As a global thought leader on the future of work, I make it EASIER for you to leap into the AI ERA. I've created, led, and delivered effectively managed organizational transformations in over 800 enterprises, enhancing operational efficiency and business growth.

DELIVERED year-after-year growth in book of business, operational efficiencies, talent optimization and engagement, improved workflows, organizational alignment, and transformative cultural change.

WHO I HAVE WORKED WITH, a multi-industry sampling: American Express, Bank of America, BBC, Chevron, GE, Genentech, Gulfstream, IBM, IQVIA, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal, Merck, Pfizer, Philips Lighting, Proctor & Gamble, Ralston-Purina, Royal Bank of Canada, SAP, Shell, Swedish Post Office, US Navy SEALS, Ultimate Software, Vodafone Spain, Walt Disney World, World Bank. With a focus on Healthcare and Finance industries.

WHAT THEY SAY:
“Bill Jensen skillfully explained how simplicity can help us achieve better results, and how it creates and transfers value throughout our organization. Now, we all realize that we have in our hands a new competitive advantage: Simplicity!”
~ Jamie Bustillo • CTO, Vodafone, Spain

“Using what you taught us, I’ve saved at least 10 hours just this week. My boss estimates your tools will save us over 10,000 hours!”
~ Sian Davies • Toyota UK

WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT: I’ve spend the past 35+ years studying how work gets done. Over 1,000,000 interviewed and surveyed. I have my ears to the ground, listening to the hum of daily To Dos, and my eyes to the future, watching for how AI Agents will change everything. I’ve been an IBM Futurist, and have conducted high-impact future of work research for multiple technology giants.

BEST-SELLING, DEEPLY RESEARCHED, AWESOME CONTENT: Nine best-selling books.

READY TO TALK? Please reach out to me here on LinkedIn, email me at bill@simplerwork.com, or visit my site at http://www.simplerwork.com.

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Dix Hills, NY
Speaking Topics: Future of Work, Transformation, Simplicity

Bill Jensen Points
Academic 0
Author 585
Influencer 202
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 787

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Company Information

Company Type: Company
Theatre: North America
Minimum Project Size: $50,000+
Average Hourly Rate: $200-$300
Number of Employees: 11-50
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed
Media Experience: 35 years

Areas of Expertise

Agile
AI 30.01
Analytics
Big Data
Business Strategy
Change Management 41.00
COVID19 31.61
Culture 33.51
Customer Experience
Design Thinking
Digital Disruption 35.73
Digital Transformation 32.36
EdTech
Emerging Technology
Entrepreneurship
FinTech
Future of Work 35.18
Health and Safety 30.26
HealthTech
HR 30.28
Innovation 30.26
IoT
Leadership 36.73
Management 33.76
Marketing
Open Innovation
Risk Management 30.04
Social 30.88

Industry Experience

Aerospace & Defense
Agriculture & Mining
Automotive
Building Materials, Clay & Glass
Consumer Products
Engineering & Construction
Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
Forest Products & Paper
Healthcare
High Tech & Electronics
Higher Education & Research
Hospitality
Industrial Machinery & Components
Insurance
Manufacturing
Media
Oil & Gas
Other
Pharmaceuticals
Professional Services
Retail
Telecommunications
Textiles Production
Travel & Transportation
Utilities
Wholesale Distribution

Publications

55 Article/Blogs
Copy of 65 Seconds That Must Anchor Every AI Strategy
Linkedln
November 17, 2025
Best-selling author Dan Pink recently created a 65-second video summarizing “one of the most powerful books ever written,” Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

65 Seconds That Must Anchor Every AI Strategy
Linkedln
November 17, 2025
Specifically: Every HR, IT, Operations, and C-Suite strategy — including all that upskilling, so we can deliver on the promise of AI.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

HR Must Die, Part 3
Linkedln
October 27, 2025
Yet, as Ina De Quint, founder of the Be Safe, Girl! Movement, says, we need “HR to become the place where organizations learn to unlearn inherited rules, reset their social contracts, and design futures worth working for.”

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Tags: Future of Work, Leadership, Management

HR Must Die, Part 2
Linkedln
October 20, 2025
If your HR is not in top third performance in at least 7 of these 10 core responsibilities, you are not yet ready for the AI Era. Bolting AI tools onto pre-existing deficiencies will just intensify your HR problems — at hyperspeed! Go work on the Big 10 below, then come back to everything that follows.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

HR Must Die, Part 1
Linkedln
October 13, 2025
Which leaves us stuck with chronically disengaged workers, sluggish productivity, broken internal mobility, stale skills, stalled diversity, and mounting risks as AI hits workspaces far faster than HR is changing.

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Tags: Future of Work, Leadership, Management

Jailbreaking L&D for the AI Era, Part 3
Linkedln
October 06, 2025
Every detail in our earlier post, Jailbreaking L&D Part 2, was designed to instill, create, nurture, and build the workforce’s trust in how you implement AI Era L&D.

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Tags: Future of Work, Leadership, Management

40 Things I’ve Learned About Change
Linkedln
October 02, 2025
Through successes and failures, over 1,000,000 surveys and interviews, and learning from amazing leaders, teammates, friends, clients, and mentors across the globe — here are the top 40 things I’ve learned about change in 40 years. (Repost from a couple months ago.)

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Jailbreaking L&D for the AI Era, Part 2
Linkedln
September 29, 2025
Savvy CLO Opening Statement: “We are standing at the precipice of the single greatest workforce transformation in history. Our current Learning & Development model is not up for this level of disruption, and continuing with it is a direct threat to our competitiveness, our culture, and our very survival.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Jailbreaking How AI Era Leaders Lead, Part 1
Linkedln
August 11, 2025
What if we looked at who we are as humans in the AI Era, and worked from there — reverse engineering the leaders we need from who WE are, not who they are?! And what if We The People used GenAI as the tool to get the leaders we deserve?

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

The New Normal: The Truths Behind Your Hybrid Work
LinkedIn
May 20, 2021
For many of us, a mix of working from home and the office has always been the best solution. And the future of your work will most definitely a hybrid mix — but it took a pandemic to force most employers into it.

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Tags: Leadership, Culture, HR, Future of Work

Your New Normal: Faster, Deeper, Better Connections
LinkedIn
April 28, 2021
If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s the value of our connections and relationships. For a full year, we all longed for real hugs, hang-time with close friends and teammates, and non-Zoomed conversations.

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Future of Work, Change Management

Your New Normal: Make Every Day Awesome
LinkedIn
April 19, 2021
Part of a series making Post-COVID Future of Work more personal. Most thought leaders are opining on THE New Normal — how COVID has changed everything. Here we dig into what, exactly, that means to YOU.

It’s finally happening. Those of us who survived… (Far too many did not…) and those of us who are ready to thrive again… (Far too many are still struggling…) are emerging from our year-long pandemic cocoon. Ready to create new and better normals.

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Tags: Culture, HR, Future of Work

Your New Normal: 6 Must-Dos to Up Your Zoom Game
LinkedIn
March 10, 2021
For some, it was easy and fun. For many it’s been painstaking trial and error. Here I adapt a primer on 6 Must-Dos for Great Presentations into 6 Must-Dos to Up Your Zoom Game. (Using Zoom as a universal stand-in for all virtual teaming spaces and tools.)

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Future of Work

Your New Normal: How Do You Define Success?
LinkedIn
March 10, 2021
The global pandemic did a lot more than disrupt health systems, the entire economy, and most things in our lives. It also forced many of us to ponder the big questions in life: Am I happy? What truly matters to me? Why am I doing what I do?

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Future of Work

Your New Normal: Disrupt Yourself Continuously
LinkedIn
March 09, 2021
Part of a series making Post-COVID Future of Work more personal. Most thought leaders are opining on THE New Normal — how COVID has changed everything. Here we dig into what, exactly, that means to YOU.

If the past year has taught all of us anything, it’s that each of us better get real good at disrupting ourselves — before the next wave of imposed disruptions hit us.

And the follow-up lesson: During 2021, 2022, 2023, and beyond, the post-pandemic disruptive waves are gonna keep coming.

For years, I’ve coached leaders and organizations three crucial choices they need to make

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Tags: Leadership, HR, Future of Work

Leadership in 2021: Where Do We Go From Here?
LinkedIn
January 09, 2021
After you take a moment to breathe a big sigh of relief… And after giving thanks for the health and safety you and your teammates still have… And after putting in place all the necessary health policies and protocols because the pandemic is not over… Where do you go from here?

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Tags: Management, Leadership, Culture, Future of Work

2021 Simplified: Your Ultimate Path to Working Smarter
LinkedIn
January 08, 2021
What’s the one thing you learned about YOU during COVID/2020? About your values, your skills, your strengths, your priorities? Then, after you’ve pinpointed that: How will you apply that major lesson-learned to your successful 2021? Most everyone I’ve coached had one or two major Ahas: 1) “Family really is THE most important thing!” 2) “Wow, I am a lot more agile, adaptable, and did a lot more personal transformation than I thought I could!!” And those Ahas changed how they’re now approaching 2021.

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Tags: Innovation, Management, Leadership, Culture, Future of Work

The Future of Work Is Now
CEOWORLD Magazine
March 25, 2020
We have been dancing at the edge of the future of work for the past decade. Keeping our partnership with that future close enough to reap the amazing benefits of disruptive technologies, but at a safe enough social distance to ignore the messy truths and human costs attached to those disruptions.

Then came the coronavirus. Forcing massive disruptions upon us all. No place to hide from hidden human costs.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Future of Work, COVID19

The Elephant in the Room That Most Leaders of the Future of Work Just Don't See
LinkedIn
February 10, 2020
The standard against which the workforce will evaluate all leaders, all training and development, all work experiences, all teaming experiences, and all of corporate IT is no longer a comparison of one company to another, or one boss to another, or one work experience to another.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Management, Future of Work

3 Amazing Steps to Great Meetings, As An ATTENDEE
LinkedIn
February 10, 2020
If you Google “How to run great meetings,” back comes 286,000,000 results. Whoa! So much advice! Google “How to attend meetings” and you get even more results! But… Most of that advice is prettly lame or pedestrian: Be on time, take notes, avoid distrations, pay attention, yada, yada. Since most of us will spend most of our worklives attending other people’s meetings, isn’t it about time we got more strategic advice about how we attend meetings? Gotcha covered! Three powerful steps...

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Tags: Management, Leadership, Culture

5 Profound Ways to Discover Your Life’s Work
LinkedIn
February 10, 2020
Imagine having a profound, plainspoken conversation with your loved ones. You share how you figured out what matters and what doesn’t. You speak with absolute conviction: This is what I stood for, believed in, struggled with, and accomplished. This is my life’s work, and what I want to be remembered for.

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Tags: Innovation, Management, Leadership

The Wicked Truth About Employee Motivation in the Age of AI and Automation
LinkedIn
February 10, 2020
From fear of robots taking over our lives, to automation being a threat to jobs, AI is creating impenetrable skills gaps and employee resistance to change.
The headline and subhead above are borrowed nearly word-for-word from a recent McKinsey post. Because, depending on your view and your paycheck, they either got everything right, or they got very little right.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Management

When Getting Their Attention Isn’t Enough… When You Need Behavioral Change
LinkedIn
February 10, 2020
We all know and experience how short attention spans are at work. Ridiculously short! (If you’re unclear how short yours is, take this test.)

But what about going beyond grabbing people’s attention… How do you communicate for behavioral change in an ADD World?

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Tags: Innovation, Social, Management

We Need a Business Revolution, And So Far, Our Leaders Are Failing Us
LinkedIn
February 10, 2020
“Capitalism, as we know it, is dead.”

…declared Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, at this month’s Davos elite confab. “Stakeholder capitalism is finally hitting a tipping point,” he said. “Does that mean I have to fight for my employees? Yes. And yes… The planet is a key stakeholder. We’re in a planetary emergency.”

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Tags: Innovation, Management, Leadership

How to Understand and Survey Your Employees in Ways That Won’t Piss Them Off
LinkedIn
February 10, 2020
We’ve all been there, done that. Whether it’s your shopping experience, healthcare, gaming, restaurant, restroom, or workplace experience — everybody everywhere wants you to fill out their follow up survey or give them an experience score. And, after a while, we all feel like: “If I have to fill out one more damn survey, it automatically gets scored 0 out of ten smiley faces! ... Argh!”

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Tags: Social, Management, Leadership

45 Author Newsletters
Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent
Linkedin
December 08, 2025
They’re building our Human Capital Operating System by abandoning what makes us human.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

10 Things I’ve Learned About Transformation in 40 Years
Linkedln
December 01, 2025
Dear Leaders, this is a list of Transformation Undiscussables. The Unpopular or Under-Valued and Under-Discussed-in-C-Suites drivers that impact your transformation’s success or failure. Senior leaders have literally shut down conversations about each of the following and the questions they raised. Resulting in the need for much deeper introspection by leaders, and far more accountability attached to these issues — and then hard-wiring them into your transformation strategies.

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Tags: Future of Work, Leadership, Management

Nobody’s Voted on This
Linkedin
November 24, 2025
“Nobody has really voted on this. This is all being developed behind well-guarded doors. And society hasn’t really had time to think about this and decide, ‘Oh yeah, this is a good idea.’ Just because we can do it.... Should we do it?”

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

65 Seconds That Must Anchor Every AI Strategy
Linkedin
November 17, 2025
Specifically: Every HR, IT, Operations, and C-Suite strategy — including all that upskilling, so we can deliver on the promise of AI.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Why Are We Treating Workforce Upskilling Like It’s 1999?
Linkedin
November 10, 2025
Teachers are using AI to personalize lessons, automate grading, and free up time for what matters most: helping students grow. Students are benefiting from tailored content, more immediate feedback, and on-demand support. The learning experience is becoming more adaptive and responsive to individual needs

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Who Are You Called to Serve in the AI Era?
Linkedin
November 03, 2025
He used this question to help leaders to think beyond their immediate products or services and consider the underlying customer needs they fulfill.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Succession Planning Must Die, Part 2
Linkedln
September 15, 2025
To create that Playbook, I incorporated Part 1 criteria — all the requirements for completely-disrupted, AI Era succession planning — into a Chat GPT 5.0 prompt, and asked for a ten-step, one-year transformation plan and process, which I then refined and improved.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Jailbreaking and Rebuilding Leadership, Part 3
Linkedln
August 25, 2025
Reread Part 2’s detailed Playbook, then... Let’s use a strategist’s toolkit to test your mindset shift: 1. Second-Order Thinking (Asking “And then what?”) 2. Force Multipliers (Asking “What one move gives us the biggest shift?”) 3. Long-Term Mindset (Setting a 3-5 Year Vision)

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

People Analytics Must Die, Part 4
Linkedln
August 04, 2025
This one question —unthinkably unnecessary just months ago — will be the most important, strategic, AI-driven question that every company and every leader must address during the next five years.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

People Analytics Must Die, Part 2
Linkedln
July 21, 2025
People Analytics must dedicate itself EQUALLY to helping the organization and its people succeed — in interdependence and balance. There is no successful data-driven future without both halves getting equal energy, effort, discipline. Both the organization and every individual within it must have enhanced agency over their ability to thrive in a disruptive future.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

People Analytics Must Die, Part 1
Linkedln
July 14, 2025
People Analytics today is a one-way lens: Organizations stare at employees, tracking every move they make — related to productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, engagement, attrition, etc. — while workers get zero say in what’s measured or how it’s used. This approach must die, now.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Your Strategy Has Huge Gaps!
Linkedln
July 07, 2025
Bill Jensen is a seasoned strategy and transformation executive, advisor to C-suite execs, globally-known keynote speaker, and author of nine best-selling leadership and change books

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Write Your AI Era Legacy Letter
Linkedln
June 30, 2025
Here are a few excerpts of heartfelt letters with hard-won wisdom from the book — each written to children, family, or other loved ones. See bottom for instructions on how to write your own Legacy Letter.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

AI Makes Your Infinite Workday Worse
Linkedln
June 23, 2025
“AI is delivering real productivity gains, but it’s not enough,” says Jamie Teevan, Microsoft’s chief scientist and technical fellow in Fortune’s Eye on AI newsletter. “The speed of business is outpacing the way we work today.” She says that crafting prompts for AI to perform tasks for us “actually increases our metacognitive burden.”

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Will You Be Obsolete by 2030?
Linkedln
June 16, 2025
“Act like a world-renowned AI strategy expert, futurist, and organizational advisor from the year 2030. You have deep expertise in exponential technologies, labor market shifts, business transformation, and human adaptability.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Finally, Honesty!
Linkedln
June 10, 2025
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of AI, has a blunt and scary warning for all of us. And we better listen — even if you disagree. Listen. Understand. Consider the possibilities. From his interview with Axios...

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Mapping Your New You Journey for the AI Era
Linkedln
June 03, 2025
Of course, AI technologies, agents, and prompts are the environment we’re all traveling through. But here we focused on how you could be your best you: Everything that makes you, you. And how to enhance it for the AI Era: Making it easier for you to be you, and to succeed in the coming AI-driven decade.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Call for Courageous Caring in the AI Era
Linkedln
May 27, 2025
Your use of AI tools is unlike any work you’ve done before. In the past, mechanical and digital tools enhanced YOUR brilliance or YOUR toil. And the inventors or builders of those tools were compensated for your use of their tool.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

5 Questions AI Can Never Answer for You
Linkedln
May 20, 2025
The tool is not you. While AI agents will soon take over most workplaces, there are deeply personal questions the tool cannot answer for you. Choices and decisions only you can make, that will determine your future.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

Leadership Courage in the AI Era: Finally Workforce-Centered
Linkedln
May 13, 2025
This Law states: Ease of use and reduced use of time are equal to — and sometimes more important than — recognition, compassion, inclusion, rewards, penalties, loyalty, and hierarchy in their ability to drive human behaviors.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

AI-Prompted Courageous Introspection, Part 3
Linkedln
May 06, 2025
Let’s do the same here — continuing to use AI prompts to get you the fastest, best breakfast feedback you’ll ever receive. The following brilliant and powerful AI prompt comes from Nicole Hatherly, global brand strategist, who lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

AI Era Courage: Leap Before the Net Arrives
Linkedln
April 29, 2025
You could be experiencing the fear of learning new skills. Or the fear of losing your job to AI automations. Or just “I’m not ready!” It may feel like you’re being asked to leap without a safety net, without knowing what happens next.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

AI Era Courage: Choose Your Parents Wisely
Linkedln
April 22, 2025
“My father was an entrepreneur in Argentina. So I grew up surrounded by his great energy. Everywhere he went he had ideas. And my mother joined him in that. She was a very strong and smart woman. She made multi-tasking her second name, so she could be a great mother and a partner for my father in his businesses and with his ideas.”

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

AI-Prompted Courageous Introspection, Part 2
Linkedln
April 15, 2025
There’s nothing more courageously vulnerable than examining the gap between your skills and abilities and those of master practitioners. AI prompts give us that ability — a safe space to be vulnerable in studying those gaps.

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Using AI Prompts for Courageous Introspection
Linkedln
April 08, 2025
And there’s nothing more courageously vulnerable than examining the gap between our own skills and abilities and those of master practitioners. AI prompts give us that ability — in a safe way. A safe personal space to be vulnerable in studying those gaps.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

8 Books
Simplicity
Perseus
February 02, 2019
FIRST OF 8 BESTSELLERS. SEE http://www.simplerwork.com/books/ FOR ALL 8 BOOKS. Making the complex clear and simple, making work simpler. Number 5 Leadership/ Management book on Amazon in 2000. While sitting among the best-seller list was nice, the acclaim that made him most proud was being called a knowledge worker’s Studs Terkel. “I focus on how real people get read work done,” he says.

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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership

Work 2.0
Perseus
February 02, 2019
SECOND OF 8 BESTSELLERS. SEE http://www.simplerwork.com/books/ FOR ALL 8 BOOKS. Bill Jensen foresaw the current workplace changes long before they occurred. Many of today’s biggest organizational and work shifts were predicted in Work 2.0.

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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership

Simplicity Survival Handbook
Perseus
February 02, 2019
THIRD OF 8 BESTSELLERS. SEE http://www.simplerwork.com/books/ FOR ALL 8 BOOKS. Detailed How To follow-up to Simplicity. These How Tos are still among Bill’s most valuable tips when speaking and conducting workshops with corporate audiences.

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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership

What Is Your Life's Work?
Harper Collins
February 02, 2019
FOURTH OF 8 BESTSELLERS. SEE http://www.simplerwork.com/books/ FOR ALL 8 BOOKS. Among Bill’s most deeply personal books. In it he captures the intimate exchanges between mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and caring teammates, all talking about what matters at work and in life. Thousands of participants wrote what became known as legacy letters — one- to three-page letters to loved ones about the love- and value-based legacy they wished to leave behind.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

Hacking Work
Portfolio/Penguin
February 02, 2019
FIFTH OF 8 BESTSELLERS. SEE http://www.simplerwork.com/books/ FOR ALL 8 BOOKS. Named by Harvard Business Review as one of the top breakthrough books of that year. It revealed how the workforce was becoming an army of benevolent hackers, working around corporate bureaucracies that simply were not changing fast enough to meet marketplace demands.

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Tags: Change Management, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

The Courage Within Us
NetMinds
February 02, 2019
SIXTH OF 8 BESTSELLERS. SEE http://www.simplerwork.com/books/ FOR ALL 8 BOOKS. Revealed the secrets of 100 great disruptive heroes on how to thrive and take advantage of continuous disruptions, disorder, disarray, and change.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Leadership

Disrupt! Think Epic, Be Epic
NetMinds
February 02, 2019
SEVENTH OF 8 BESTSELLERS. SEE http://www.simplerwork.com/books/ FOR ALL 8 BOOKS. Revealed the secrets of 100 great disruptive heroes on how to thrive and take advantage of continuous disruptions, disorder, disarray, and change.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Future of Work, Leadership

Future Strong
Motivational Press
February 02, 2019
EIGHTH OF 8 BESTSELLERS. SEE http://www.simplerwork.com/books/ FOR ALL 8 BOOKS. Maps the five toughest choices each of us must make to create our best futures. It is based upon Bill’s breakthrough research, studying the future of work through the lens of deeply personal individual choices.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work

1 Video
Insights Series: Bill Jensen - What should leaders be doing now to prepare for a post-Covid world?
Thinkers360
March 05, 2021
Bill Jensen, CEO, The Jensen Group discusses "What should leaders be doing now to prepare for a post-Covid world?"

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Tags: Leadership, Future of Work, COVID19

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2 Article/Blogs
Why Introspection Matters During the Pandemic
Thinkers360
January 02, 2021
Thirty-five years ago my parents joined me at my business launch party at my penthouse offices in Soho, New York. My own new firm — no more working for anyone else! Woohoo! My father was a retired cop and moved on to cleaning plane interiors for American Airlines. In the middle of the party he asked: “Where’s your security?” He didn’t mean bouncers or guards. Nor was he asking about financial security from angel investors. (Although Mom was one, and never told him!) He meant: “How will you be able to afford a home, or retire? Where’s your long-term security?” “Here, Dad,” I replied, pointing repeatedly to my chest. “Here.” Every self-driven and agile individual has a similar story: Belief in oneself, our vision, our drive, and our passions is what keeps us going during the toughest situations. But few of us have experienced anything like the dumpster fire known as COVID-19, 2020. By mid-year, more than 100,000 small businesses were forever shuttered. And that trend only grew as the next wave of the pandemic hit. Many firms that received PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loans eventually filed for bankruptcy. 2020 was tough on all of us! Belief in oneself, our vision, and our personal agility are no longer enough. We need more. We need family. teammate, and community support. We need government support. And we need more openness about our hardships. Owning Our Hardship Truths, Recognizing Personal Growth In coaching senior executives across the globe who face transformational decisions, I’ve found that the most important pre-work is introspection — understanding the personal challenges interwoven within business challenges. That’s especially true for all of us that survived 2020! None of us likes admitting failure. At heart: we’re eternal optimists. Our DNA is to always believe in our personal ability to adapt, overcome, and succeed. Yet precious few of us create the time to process personal growth in-the-moment. We’re too busy trying to create a 25th hour in the day so we can get more done! But process, we must. With insight, our hardships become our renewed source of strength and perserverence. Introspection jumpstarts successful pandemic leadership. During the past year I’ve asked hundreds of executives one question, based on their 2020 COVID-19 experiences: What’s the biggest thing you learned about YOU in the past few months? Across the globe and across many industries, two universal lessons-learned have emerged: • Family matters most. Forced to work from home, many of us have reconnected with the most primal of needs — family. Entrepreneurs, self-starters, and hyper-driven individuals often forget this. Our business creations and successes sometimes supersede all else. (I was one of those guilty of this. Sixteen years ago, one of the contributing factors to my divorce was an obsessive focus on my business.) • “Wow! I hadn’t realized how resilient I am!” During crises, adapting every moment of every day becomes almost routine. Because your focus has been on gazillions of external pandemic forces — like new safety protocals, creating new revenue streams, and just keeping the business alive or your paychecks coming — few of us appreciate how much personal transformation we just experienced. Your Story: Why Introspection Matters During the Pandemic Self-awareness and self-care is key to all leaders’ success. You can’t succeed in the marketplace if you’re not taking care of yourself and not fully aware of your strengths and weaknesses. But let’s put that aside for the moment. Your teammates, your suppliers, and your customers were all thrashing about with you in that 2020 dumpster fire. They need your empathy, your support, your attention, your compassion, and they’d benefit from your story — hearing about your vulnerability, your challenges, your lessons learned, what you went through with them. Your 2020 experiences — your story — are among your key leadership tools in helping others get through one of the most disruptive and challenging years they’ll ever experience. And that leadership begins with understanding what you yourself just went through. Bill Jensen makes it easier to leap into tomorrow. He is CEO of The Jensen Group, is ranked as a Top Ten Global Thought Leader on Digital Disruption, and is an IBM futurist. His next book is The Day Tomorrow Said No, which maps how to create our best future of work. Download your free copy here: https://www.tomorrowsaidy.es

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The Future of Work Is Now
Thinkers360
December 26, 2020
“A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.” — Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain We have been dancing at the edge the future of work for the past decade. Keeping our partnership with that future close enough to reap the amazing benefits of disruptive technologies, but at a safe enough social distance to ignore the messy truths and human costs attached to those disruptions. Then came the dumpster fire known as 2020. COVID-19 forced massive disruptions upon us all. No place to hide from hidden human costs. Suddenly, everything changed. Companies and managers who had forever insisted that employees remain desk-bound to ensure proper supervision suddenly found ways to make teleworking work; school districts that were stuck in the 20th century suddenly found new ways to teach, evaluate students, and keep track of learning; every organization in every industry completely rethought every aspect of work. Suddenly, teachers, healthcare workers, grocery store employees, community food pantries, and delivery people became far more important than NBA players, pop-stars, and all who we had worshipped just days earlier. The need for major changes was not tied solely to a global pandemic. They had been there all along, as part of the coming disruptive future of work. The most direct path to that future is not paved with disruptions caused by viruses or technologies like AI, 5G, or the Internet of Things. It is paved by those who are bold and brave enough to get past their own limiting beliefs. Where Will Your Leadership Take Us? Pandemics are one of four biblical horsemen [ https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/03/17/Ten-Ways-Pandemics-Change-Humanity/ ] creating clarity, meaning in our lives, and shaping the rest of human history. As Andrew Nikiforuk [ http://andrewnikiforuk.com ] wrote decades ago in his book, The Fourth Horseman, pandemics may seem to be random events, but they are actually the result of systemic vulnerabilities we’ve created ourselves. The same is true about how today’s leaders are approaching the future of work. Are you creating the next apocalypse or several decades of abundance? Your ability to move past your current prejudices, propensities, and predispositions may be the deciding factor. Once the current coronavirus crisis is over, we need you focused on the coming Era of AI. What you do, how you lead, how you plan, truly matters to us all. You are the translator between extremely disruptive digital transformations and those we wish to empower to do their best. You are the difference between everyone soaring to new heights or having a robopocalypse forced upon them. More than ever, we need you to understand how major changes in technologies impact human behavior, needs, performance, and motivation. This is your legacy moment. We are at the edge, advancing towards a tech-driven future that has lost major chunks of its humanity. How do you as a leader ensure that we build a more human-centered future? The fierce urgency of tomorrow begins today. 4 Ways to Use Today’s Pandemic to Jumpstart the Future of Work 1. Take Stock. Reflect. Reimagine the Possibilities. This could be one of the top five societal moments in your life that radically impacts your thinking. Within just weeks, most every system you use has been disrupted. Are you disrupting yourself and your pre-conceived ideas at the same pace, with the same intensity? Define success in a month or two as: How radically has your thinking changed because of this historic moment? 2. Study the Soft Stuff Behind Virus-Driven Teleworking Changes. We’ve had teleworking technologies for decades, and they keep getting better and cheaper. Technology has never been the issue. The real reasons teleworking has been limited until now: Not trusting your people to manage themselves, and treating employees as costs to be managed instead of assets to be freed and leveraged. What have you learned about freeing human potential because of this crisis? How have you reimagined productivity, learning, and personal development across the company because of this crisis? 3. Discover Your People’s Real-Life Stories. The reason that Undercover Boss is compelling reality TV is that it takes executives out of the C-suite and exposes them to the human dramas and life challenges behind each employee’s work. Use this crisis to get to know the real-world difficulties and struggles of at least five of your employees. For decades, I have asked senior executives to spend a day doing frontline jobs, and every leader said it was one of their most eye-opening professional experiences. What have you learned about your people because of this crisis? 4. What Do You Want Your Legacy to Be? This crisis has afforded each of us the opportunity to reexamine and reimagine what truly matters. How has this crisis caused you to rethink the impact you wish to have on the world? If it’s not bigger and bolder than when the crisis began, return to Number 1: Reflect and Reimagine. The future of work is now. The pandemic crisis is your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the world differently, to lead differently, to make a difference in more profound ways than you ever imagined. Go for it! Bill Jensen makes it easier to leap into tomorrow. He is CEO of The Jensen Group, is ranked as a Top Ten Global Thought Leader on Digital Disruption, Top 5 Thought Leader on the Future of Work, and is an IBM futurist. His newest book is The Day Tomorrow Said No, which maps how to create our best future of work. Download your free copy here: https://www.tomorrowsaidy.es

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