How to Balance Employee Freedom With Organizational Control
When looking at something such as designing employee experiences one of the biggest questions and challenges that comes up is […]
Strategy
Six Steps To Adapt To The Future Of Work
When I was writing my book, The Future of Work, I created a framework for adapting to coming changes that I call “The Six-Step Process for Adapting to the Future of Work.” (It was inspired in part by John Kotter’s well known “8-Step Process for Leading Change.”) I will be exploring my six-step process on a webinar in a few weeks, but here are the steps and what they entail (They’re best thought of as a never-ending loop) […]
Strategy
How Do You Define Work?
If you were to look up the word “work” in the dictionary, it would say something along the lines of, “to do something for someone else for pay.” Oftentimes synonyms for work include drudgery, daily grind, and struggle. It is this notion that we have built our organizations on top of for over the last 100 years. Do those synonyms still apply today? Work used to be one sided. Organizations provided jobs, and employees showed up to do them. It was a very transactional process. We are moving towards a world where work is about an experience, a relationship, and doing something with a sense of purpose. […]
The Three Environments That Create Every Employee Experience
I define “employee experience” as an organization creating a place where people want to show up instead of assuming that people need to show up. This shift from “need” to “want” is the fundamental change that organizations around the world are starting to experience. This is why we see so much investment in new offices spaces, health and well-being programs, maternity and paternity leave, healthy foods, workplace flexibility, and so much more. There are a lot of things that can go into creating an employee experience but the good news is that every single company regardless of their industry, geography, or size, only need to focus on three things. […]
Future of work, Strategy
The Top 8 Things You Need To Know About The Future Of Work
My team and I just hosted another Future of Work Forum in NYC for members of The Future of Work Community (a global brand council where companies explore how the workplace is changing). We were joined by some brilliant speakers and guests including the CHRO of AARP, Chief People Officer of Cisco, CIO of Xerox, CHRO of Pandora, Head of Innovation at Sanofi, CIO of IBM, EVP of HR at Staples, Brian Robertson (the founder of holacracy), CEO of Frog Design, and many others. We explored many topics around the future of work including but not limited to freelancers, corporate culture, technology and collaboration, people analytics, leadership, change management, holacracy and much more. I wanted to share the top eight learnings from the event. […]
Strategy
Is Amazon A Terrible Place To Work?
Recently the New York Times did a brutal expose on Amazon’s workplace practices which painted the company as an absolutely horrible place to work. Regardless of if you hate or love Amazon as a result of this recent debacle I think there are three key takeaways from this that we should all consider. […]
Strategy
The 5 Types Of Innovation For The Future Of Work, Pt. 5: Public Innovation
As the world of work continues to evolve at a rapid pace, innovation continues to become both a top priority and a top challenge. In order to succeed and thrive in this rapidly changing world, organizations must adapt by implementing five innovation models, all five of these are crucial and are part of a broader innovation ecosystem. This is Part 5, Public Innovation. […]
Strategy
Is Job Hopping Really A Bad Thing?
How long should you stay at a job before you leave and if you keep switching jobs is that a bad thing? I live in the Bay Area and I can say from looking at my Linkedin stream that people are job hopping like rabbits (at least here). Many people are concerned with how switching jobs makes them look on paper […]
Collaboration, Innovation, Strategy
The 5 Types Of Innovation For The Future Of Work, Pt. 4: Competitor Innovation
As the world of work continues to evolve at a rapid pace, innovation continues to become both a top priority and a top challenge. In order to succeed and thrive in this rapidly changing world, organizations must adapt by implementing five innovation models, all five of these are crucial and are part of a broader innovation ecosystem. This is Part 4, Competitor Innovation. […]
Future of work, Strategy
The 5 Types Of Innovation For The Future Of Work, Pt. 3: Partner & Supplier Innovation
As the world of work continues to evolve at a rapid pace, innovation continues to become both a top priority and a top challenge. In order to succeed and thrive in this rapidly changing world, organizations must adapt by implementing five innovation models, all five of these are crucial and are part of a broader innovation ecosystem. This is Part 3, Partner & Supplier Innovation. […]