Videos - Jacob Morgan | Best-Selling Author, Speaker, & Futurist | Leadership | Future of Work

The Number One Way To Get Employees To Use Collaboration Technologies

Many of the themes surrounding the Future of Work are enabled by technology. The big challenge for many organizations involves getting employees to use new technologies such as collaboration tools and internal social networks. If employees do not use them, it makes it difficult for the components and themes involving the future of work to actually become possible for example flexible work, real-time feedback, or abolishing annual employee reviews. Typically, when technology is deployed within an organization, the focus is on its benefits to the organization as a whole. Pushing forward the benefits such as cost cutting, productivity, and making money for the organization does not always appeal to the employee as an individual benefit.[…]

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What Should You Invest In First, Technology Or Corporate Culture?

Today’s Future in 5 comes to you from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I just came back from Santiago, Chile where I spoke to around 1,000 HR practitioners and leaders from many different companies in the Latin American and South American regions. After my talk, I was asked a question I thought would be a great topic for this week. When trying to drive change, should a company invest in the technology piece first, or invest in corporate culture first? […]

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Why you Should Treat your Physical Space like Software

There is a popularized concept of using the lean approach when designing software. In this process you bring customers in, to test and iterate as you go along. Incremental changes are done instead of dumping all your eggs into one expensive basket. Basically, you make several small changes instead of just designing one thing and showing it to people. […]

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Why organizations are moving from HR to People

There is a large shift in the HR world. A lot of organizations are renaming their HR functions to people and talent related roles. Companies are using new titles such as Chief People Officer for their Human Resources department. Why are organizations doing this? Many

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Why Everyone Needs to Be More Social

The topic of Being More Social is floating around at Dreamforce today. When hearing this topic, did you automatically think of Social Media? You are not alone! Hear how it is important to not only utilize Social Media externally, but also how to Be Social

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Why Networking is Still Crucial in Business

I’m at Dreamforce this week, that 150,000 person conference for Salesforce which is being held in San Francisco. Being surrounded by so many people I couldn’t help but think about the importance of networking and why this will always be crucial for how business gets

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The Number One Way To Keep Employees Engaged

So what’s the #1 way to keep employees engaged? Simple, don’t let the engagement drop off when employees start working there and don’t treat engagement as an adrenaline shot. […]

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Why Smaller Companies Will Dominate The Future Of Work

Oftentimes when I (and many others) talk about the future of work it’s in reference to larger companies, that’s not intentional it’s just where most of the conversations tend to gravitate towards. However, I actually think the future of work definitely favors the small organizations. In the latest episode of the #futurein5 I explore why I think the future of work favors the small! […]

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Why You Can’t Teach Leadership

Is leadership something that you can teach or is leadership something you are born with? This is an interesting debate and I’m sure there are plenty of people on both camps. I don’t believe leadership can be taught, it’s either a part of your DNA or it isn’t. […]

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Want Privacy And Security? You Must Be Joking!

Yesterday I gave a talk at PARC (Xerox) and one of the attendees asked me what I think about the future of privacy and security, to which I replied, “you must be joking.” The only way anyone can have any privacy today is you raise them from birth in the woods without being anywhere near technology of any kind. […]

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