# Peaks and Perils of Long Term Virtual Working: Leadership lessons from the front line.

- by [Marianne Whitfield](/content/author/marianne/ "Posts by Marianne Whitfield"/index.html)  
- June 26, 2020

Digital technologies introduced the concept of virtual working to the business world decades ago. Equipped with laptops, smartphones and wi-fi, organisations started slowly adopting virtual teams in business practices to connect geographically dispersed organisational stakeholders in virtual space. Although the shift to virtual teams was driven by the need to…

# Blockchain and the Real World

- by [Kate Baucherel](/content/author/kate/ "Posts by Kate Baucherel"/index.html)  
- October 31, 2018

There is a theory that any innovation follows a lifecycle that is shaped like an S-curve and goes through a number of distinct stages: ferment, takeoff, maturity, and discontinuity. There is another stage that comes between fermentation and takeoff, when the fence-sitters are still in the majority, and really aren’t…