I just finished giving a keynote presentation on the future of work to a room of 200+ telecommunications executives and business leaders at the Glenn Eagles Resort in Scotland. After my session someone stood up and asked a very interesting question about employees having too
You can’t talk about the future of work without referring to many of the old and outdated management practices that are still the standard in most companies around the world. Oddly enough most of the people who created these management ideas and practices are now
Do you want to work at your company or do you need to work there? If you are a manager the same question goes to you, do your employees want to work there or do they need to work there? The assumption over the past
I’m very excited to announce that I just recently signed a contract with Wiley Publishing to work on my second book. There’s not title yet but I can tell you that the book will be focused on exploring how the world of work is changing
I travel a fair amount around the world, nothing too crazy but I’d say I average around 100k miles a year which is more than the average person. I’m also a bit of a health and fitness nut so when I travel to conferences or
Companies move very slowly but people don’t. It can take a company 1-2 years to make a decision, it takes a person a few minutes at most. When it comes to collaboration and the future of work the snail-like pace of companies (especially large ones)
Here is a random mix of thoughts and ideas that you can/should be thinking about when it comes to the future of work and collaboration. Just because we can always be connected doesn’t mean we should be, we need to time away from screens to
Every Friday I’m going to attempt to summarize any relevant news in the future of work/collaboration space. I’ll provide the name of the vendor, a short summary of what the announcement or piece of news is with a link to the original, and finally a
We recently released our report on the Future of Work. One of the things we explored was the best ways to educate employees on the value and benefit of collaboration platforms within organizations. Employee adoption is consistently ranked as one of the top challenges when
Tomorrow morning I’m doing a webinar with the folks over at Bloomfire on the 5 Types of Collaborative Organizations. The first 160 people who register and attend the webinar will be given a free copy of my book, The Collaborative Organization. During the webinar I’m
