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No Email Day: a Misunderstood but Promising Solution to Information Overload
A sure-fire way to jolt awake an audience in a lecture about Information Overload is to mention the solution known as “No Email Day” (NED) or “Zero Email Friday”. As soon as people hear the name, there...
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Okay, You Got Workforce Diversity… Now What?
Every serious company these days is committed to promote workforce diversity. Too bad not all of them know what to do with it once they have it… Missing the whole point of workforce diversity One day I...
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How to Improve Your Company Culture by the Judicious Use of Coffee
How coffee is provided and used in a workplace is intimately linked to the local company culture, and can be used to assess it and to steer it for better or for worse. Coffee is used universally by...
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How Communicating Across Company Lines Can Help Your Career
Check out my guest post on the Leader Communicator blog: Why and How to Communicate Across Company Lines Have you tried to communicate with your peers in other organizations lately? In this post I...
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Rosh Gadol: How You Can Manage for Initiative and Get Away With It
What on earth is Rosh Gadol? These are terms that every Israeli knows, and like much Israeli slang they come from the army: Rosh Gadol (literally, a large head) – a person who sees the bigger picture,...
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New Insight Article: Fostering Company Soul Through Internal Company Exhibits
Creating educational exhibitions has always been a fascination of mine (in fact, since I left the cube farm and became free to choose my consulting work, I’ve been engaged in creating three...
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The Thousand Faces of Email – 2. Launch, Forget, and CYA!
Continuing the series about the numerous unplanned uses to which email has been put since its humble origins in the sixties, let’s take a look at a shady pair of practices: using email to pass the...
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New Insight Article: How You Can Instill a Culture of Innovation in Your Company
Everybody, you’d think, likes Innovation. What’s not to like? And yet, as I’ve observed repeatedly, many companies pay lip service to innovation, but not that many walk the talk. Even hi-tech...
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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...
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Solving 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...
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Why 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...
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When 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...
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Five 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...
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When 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...
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Unplugged 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...
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Email, 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...
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Banning 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...
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Remembering 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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