New Insight Article: The Importance of Having an Effective Action Culture
Organizational culture is a fascinating subject – elusive yet critical to a company’s success. A crucial aspect of this is what I’ll call (for lack of a better name) Action Culture. By this I mean the...
View ArticleSolving Information Overload: Technology Assisted Behavior Change
An interesting hybrid If you scan the Definitive Guide to Information Overload Solutions you will see two prominent classes of solutions: Behaviour change solutions and Technology based solutions. The...
View ArticleWhy Employee Badge Design Matters to Your Company
What defines the design of the employee badges in your company? Who cares, you say? YOU should, I reply. Very much so. Read on. How it’s usually done The employee badge is a standard feature of the...
View ArticleWhen Cultures Clash: Open Door Policy vs. Information Overload
The causes of Information Overload are always tightly intertwined with organizational culture, so it is small wonder that solving the first requires messing with the second… and there are times when my...
View ArticleFive Things That Turn a Job into a DREAM Job
Everybody would love to work in a Dream Job. Not everybody is so lucky; and not everybody realizes what the makings of such a job are. What makes a salaried position into a dream job? I’ve spent some 3...
View ArticleWhen Cultures Clash: Mission Orientation vs. Overwork
As I wrote before, the causes of Information Overload are always tightly intertwined with organizational culture, which leads to interesting conflicts and forces critical tradeoffs. Well-meaning...
View ArticleUnplugged Weddings: People are Pushing Back!
At last: some pushback The “democratization” of photography in the smartphone age has wrested the role of the professional wedding photographer and distributed it among all the invited friends and...
View ArticleEmail, Digital Photography, and the Hole in our Historical Record
Letters from the past One fine day in the 20th century BCE Ilabrat-bani, an Assyrian merchant from Kültepe in Anatolia, wrote to one Amur-ili a letter concerning shipments of textiles, and providing...
View ArticleBanning Email Use After Hours: an Update
Five and a half years ago I blogged about how Volkswagen decided to turn off its Blackberry servers outside of work hours, thereby affording employees some quality time with their families and their...
View ArticleRemembering Deming
Do you remember Deming? Heck, do you even know who Deming was? W. Edwards Deming (1900 – 1993) did not found any Start-ups, head any corporations, or promote visions of a greener Earth. Why should you...
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