Being Social
While there are still plenty of ways in which your employees work independently, in many cases you need them to contribute to each other’s work and leverage each other’s experience. A strong culture of mutual contribution helps your bottom line when you find that two people can do more together than either could do independently. […]
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Oct, 30, 2017
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Chickens vs Eggs
When you get the same question three times in one week, it makes you think. In a recent week we had three people, all from different industries, ask about using social media for collaboration. They all come from large regional or global companies and they are concerned that collaboration won’t happen without an effective electronic […]
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Oct, 16, 2017
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Making Babies. Or Not.
In most industrialized countries, the replacement birth rate is about 2.0 children per woman. In essence, that means that when the two parents die, they leave two kids behind to replace them. In lesser developed countries, the necessary replacement rate may be higher due to higher infant mortality rates, but generally speaking when we talk […]
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Jun, 01, 2017
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Culture Vultures
When you go looking for a new job (and no matter how much you enjoy your current role, you may get attracted to something else), this article from CIO offers some things you should consider to understand the culture of your potential new workplace. If you get into a new job and realize you don’t […]
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May, 22, 2017
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Newton Did Not Work in an Open Office
Isaac Newton did not sit in an open-air cubicle design, sharing documents in the cloud and participating in global group discussions on his iPad by Apple. Instead, he sat under a tree and looked at the clouds, and an apple fell on his head. Sometimes, knowledge workers need the solitude to think. We have a […]
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Mar, 09, 2017
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