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Delighted to report see our very own Jon Glesinger writing about The Future of Work over at BizCatalyst360. We hope you like what he has to say – but as a regular reader of this blog, you will...
View ArticleMeasurement Gone Mad ?
Quite exactly when something like this will kick in I do not know – BUT – I do know that aspects of it are here already. Putting aside the idea of arm bands tracking Tesco warehouse staff – consider a...
View ArticleAll Change At Yahoo
well here is some news I really DIDN’T expect to see today. This post at 37 Signals and this one from the news organisation KMUW are both essentially saying the same thing. And that is that ‘working...
View ArticleThe Flip Side
Remember this post yesterday ? It was all about how Marisa Meyer has decided that no one at Yahoo will be able to work from home / telecommute etc …. Life is changing at Yahoo. Many pundits are writing...
View ArticleIt’s Not About Balance. It’s About Enough … The Right Amount …
John has been posting some very interesting articles on work from home, or not working from home… How many times have we heard about “Work-Life Balance”? The suggestion has been that people balance...
View ArticleIn Praise of Being Specific
Having recently made the transition from working (for 14 years) in an organisation to working for myself – often from home; it is interesting to me how specific and organised virtual or remote workers...
View ArticleEnough Already – Redux
This post was originally written for and published on ODesk. It so caught the imaginations of the readership that though the number of views for the post was in line with expectations at ODesk – the...
View ArticleThe Race To The Bottom
Well now – here is an interesting read ….of course it was bound to happen – the race to the bottom always does ….. but flipping it around a bit – not surprising …. people that understand the QUALITY of...
View ArticleMind The Gap
Around the time I was asked to con- tribute to this section, I had had two com- pletely unrelated conversations with senior executives (one in the oil industry and one in banking), but, in both...
View ArticleWhy Email Is NOT Obsolete
Why Email Should Become Obsolete – wrote Business Insider. … well that is their opinion – or at least the opinion of Don Tapscott. I think he is wrong. VERY wrong. Not to say that email doesn’t have...
View ArticleManufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back
Been saying this for years – and I get particularly pissed off by those people on their huxter soapboxes the Presidential campaign trail that say any different. We need to think and work differently...
View ArticleThe Future Of Work ….
… is 5 billion customers looking for a good job. Imagine a much better world — the people-centered economy — where three billion workers have jobs tailored to fit their unique sets of skills, talents,...
View ArticleThe Robots Are Coming For Wall Street
Hundreds of financial analysts are being replaced with software. What office jobs are next? [ Source : NY Times via Stowe Boyd ] This article has been cross-posted from Beyond Bridges
View ArticleIs Silicon Valley A Laggard In Best Workplace Practice ?
Spoiler Alert … Possibly. But there is some light. US wide data for BYOD in 2014 – data provided by Citrix. Those of you without their heads under rocks will know that there is a movement afoot in...
View ArticleSociety And Attitude Need to Catch Up With Reality
The following article was originally written for and published by Biz Catalyst on May 16th, 2016 by John Philpin. It is reproduced here by kind permission. In 1930, John Maynard Keynes imagined that by...
View ArticleWork – Is It Irrelevant ?
The following article was originally written for and published by Biz Catalyst on May 23rd, 2016 by John Philpin. It is reproduced here by kind permission. I believe in the Future of Work. You know,...
View ArticleTalking About Our Generations
The following article was originally written for and published by Biz Catalyst on May 30th, 2016 by John Philpin. It is reproduced here by kind permission. At the end of last year we celebrated the...
View ArticleFinding Superheroes
The following article was originally written for and published by Biz Catalyst on June 6th, 2016 by John Philpin. It is reproduced here by kind permission. “So, I understand that you are applying for a...
View ArticleChanging The Game
The following article was originally written for and published by Biz Catalyst on June 6th, 2016 by John Philpin. It is reproduced here by kind permission. The following article was originally written...
View ArticleThe ‘I’ In Connection
It was Robin Dunbar who developed the science, research and conclusion that each of us are only capable of 150 ‘meaningful’ social connections. Click through if you want to know more, because this...
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