List of Publications

List of books and articles published by Richard Kelly

Books

2026

Building Adaptive Organisations

Building Adaptive Organisations is a practical guide to thriving in an era of volatility, complexity, and rapid technological change. The book argues that the 300-year-old organisational model, designed for stability and control, is no longer fit for the demands of Industry 4.0 and the changing workplace.

2022

The Nature of Business Transformation

This book is a practical guide for business professionals to develop and improve business intelligence and collective decision-making within their organisation. It proposes a progressive reconfiguration of the traditional business operating system using a nature-inspired framework called swarm facilitation that enables and facilitates collective decision-making. 

2019

Constructing Leadership 4.0

Rooted in leadership development methodology and underpinned by cutting-edge research, this book calls for businesses to cultivate responsive leaders through a theory of connectivism and swarm intelligence that reflects the coming cybernetic revolution.

Articles

2023

Coaching Perspective: Can a Bot Replace a Human Leadership Coach?
Grit Daily: Four-Day Week: The Logical Solution to AI Job Displacement

HR Review: Are Workplace Wellness Programmes Taken Seriously Enough?


2022
Grit Daily: The NLRB Is Cracking Down on ‘Abusive’ Employee Surveillance Software, But Employers Should Never Have Installed It In the First Place

Grit Daily: Crowdsourcing Is an Excellent Resource for Entrepreneurs and Startups, But It Needs a Special Kind of Leadership


2019

Ivey Business Journal: Teaching Your Company to Swarm

Grit Daily: HTC’s Latest VR Eye-Tracking Headsets at CES Could Give This Dicey Technology a New Virtual Life

Entreprenuer Europe : How to Be Funny in the Workplace

Entreprenuer Europe: Superheroes Are Fun in the Movies But a Myth in the Workplace


2018

Entrepreneur Europe: Is Your Boss Controlling You Subtly Without Your Realizing It?

Entrepreneur Europe: You’ve Listened to Your Gut, Now Answer These 4 Practical Questions About the Product You Think Is so Great

Entrepreneur Europe: Leaving a Positive Leadership Legacy Is Really About Living Your Values Now


2017

Entrepreneur Europe: Can Birth Order Determine Success or Failure? Science Says Maybe So

Entrepreneur Europe: 3 Aspects of Work-Life-Balance You Won’t Find in Company Presentations

Entrepreneur Europe: Creating a Culture of Innovation Starts With the Leader

Entrepreneur Europe: How a Mini-Retirement Brought Meaning to My Life

Entrepreneur Europe: 10 Lessons From Daily Life About Making Habits Stick

Entrepreneur Europe: How Businesses Need to Change Their Leadership Style in a Tumultuous World


2016

Entrepreneur Europe: 6 Fractious Workplace Habits to Ditch in 2017

Entrepreneur Europe: 6 Habits That Turn Dreams Into Reality

Entrepreneur Europe: What 5 Classic Psychological Experiments Can Teach Workplace Leaders

Entrepreneur Europe: 3 Ways Coercive Leaders Can Change Their Ways

Entrepreneur Europe: 4 Pre-WWII Leadership Legacies That Are Still Effective

Entrepreneur Europe: Does the Giant Corporation You Work for Chew You Up and Spit You Out?

Entrepreneur Europe: 6 Ways to Cope With, or Maybe Escape, Corporate Stockholm Syndrome