Tag: Agency

All the articles with the tag "Agency".

• Atman Binstock

  8 Oct, 2020

  Atman Binstock reflects on the realization that transformative technologies do not emerge automatically through inevitability, but through sustained effort by capable people willing to actively advance them.

• Perspectives.

  9 Oct, 2016

  In a series on half a decade leading digital transformation, the author connects 2010 writing on learned helplessness to Martin Seligman’s permanence-pervasiveness-personalization frame, describes optimism colliding with stalled investment at work, and argues for faster recognition of failing situations before helpless narratives set.

• Historical Perspective.

  4 Oct, 2016

  Looking back on five years building digital capability inside an agency, the author compares the climb to Everest—losses, doubt, a “summit” that marked change more than triumph—and argues the durable prize is education and method, not artifacts that decay in months.