Today’s workplace is filled with all manner of stress, from chemical or biological agents, environmental conditions, external stimuli, or events that cause…
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The tie between supervisor and supervised is loosening
The recently released 2013 TINYpulse Employee Engagement Survey makes for fascinating reading. It’s a unique study in many ways. Over 40,000 people were polled,…
Read MoreWhat do Amazon and Netflix have in common?
Amazon and Netflix are competitors, in that Amazon’s streaming video service is directly competing with the Netflix offering, and both companies are…
Read MoreSwitching from flat jobs to flow-to-the-work gigs
Roger Martin, the dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, has a piece in the Harvard Business review that makes…
Read MorePower inhibits empathy
A recent research study by Jeremy Hogeveen, Michael Inzlicht, and Sukhvinder S. Obhi, Power Changes How the Brain Responds To Others, seems to clearly…
Read MoreCEOs demands for increased performance cannot be met by today’s HR
A fast-and-loose economy calls for fast-and-loose HR.…
Read MoreWhere are the boundaries in a rapidly changing world of business?
I had a number of interesting conversations with readers, colleagues, and vendors last week, some inspired by posts published here, particularly Shadow…
Read MoreKakul Srivastava asks “Is the nature of identity and belonging changing in the emergent business?”
I got an email from Kakul Srivastava, of Tomfoolery. She posted this on Twitter the other day: giving self a day to…
Read MoreIs your job Heaven, Hell, or somewhere in between?
Frederick Herzberg was a US psychologist, extremely influential in the 20th century. His greatest contribution might have been the Motivator-Hygiene Theory, or…
Read MoreIn an open business, people will just show up and start working
For example, the Pop Up Agency is made up of six creative students who take up residency at companies or agencies for 48 hours and rapidly develop a new concept or strategy, then get back on the train or plane and head for the next pop-up gig.…
Read MoreSocial networks will turn business processes inside out
Work should be done in the medium where the information needed to do the work is present. But what does that mean for the users of products like Appian? It boils down to getting workflow folders of information and process state information relative to some routine, functional activity, like claims processing or engineering planning, into a social context, like an activity stream shared by claims processing folks or engineers.…
Read MoreMarissa Mayer talks about ‘no remote work’ edict
And doesn’t say much: “There’s a theory I subscribe to: that people are more productive when they’re alone, but they’re more collaborative…
Read MoreA work constitution instead of the old social contract?
What will replace the current company-employee model, as we slide into a more fast-and-loose model of work? I won’t spell out today’s…
Read MoreFast-and-loose means the end of the boss
I’ve been talking and writing a great deal about the fast-and-loose business culture that emerges as companies start to rethink work around…
Read MoreMcKinsey says social technologies are now mainstream, but organizational evolution still needed
The shift from slow and tight to fast and loose is a hard transition for many.…
Read MoreTaking the friction out of a fast-and-loose work economy
I had a call this week with the CEO of oDesk, Gary Swart. Swart caught me up on oDesk’s growth: more than…
Read MoreBalancing risk and social business innovation
The pace of innovation in web software is dizzying. Everyday there are new applications, new releases of established products with very different…
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