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

When It Comes To Technology, Sometimes We Have To Focus On The Little Things

With today’s technology we find ourselves with smart phones, smart cars, smart homes and many new and ever advancing technologies. While all of these time saving advances are fascinating and intriguing we often overlook the little things, the basics that make all of these technological advances possible. The steady WiFi connection, functioning power supplies, docking stations that actually dock, printers that print. It’s these basic, little things that make all of our time saving technologies function properly. The simple act of taking a step back to consider why your smart phone, smart car or smart home work can save you a lot of frustration.[…]

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New Workspace Designs Require New Management Designs

Many organizations are experimenting with new physical space designs. Management structures need to be redesigned to go along with these new office spaces, but this often gets overlooked. Why is this necessary? When organizations are originally designed, they reflect how managers actually manage. Thinking about a traditional cubical environment, employees and managers are used to private working time, and not a lot of open collaboration during the work day. If this environment was redesigned to be an open space, then management and employees will struggle keeping the same work habits in the new space. […]

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Why Do We Care About College?

Recently I was speaking at an Education Conference in Malaysia. After my keynote, I joined in on a panel conversation. The moderator asked everyone, “Why do we think people go to school?” When it was my turn to hold the mic, I answered with the word, “fear.” So many of us are obsessed with school because we are scared to think about what would happened if we didn’t go to school or get good grades. Imagine a world where the top companies stated they did not care if their employees went to school, had degrees or did well at their universities. Would people still put the time and money into their education? […]

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Why You Are Not Just In A War For Talent With Your Competition

Many organizations believe they are in a war for talent with their direct competition from their industry. This is not true anymore. We are seeing a global talent war, not only with a particular industry or location, but with employees around the world as they opt for new choices in the freelancer market and sharing economy. […]

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What Would Happen If HR Was The Biggest Team In Your Company

I am constantly amazed at the size of human resource teams that companies continue to have. The small amount of resources that HR people and talent related functions receive, especially at massive global organizations, is quite shocking! In an organization with 50-100 thousand employees or more, it is not uncommon for the HR team to be only 100 or so people to support all of those employees. I’m wondering what would happen if HR was the biggest team instead of sales or marketing. If we devoted the most people and resources to HR, how would an organization be restructured? […]

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Why The Future Of Work Is All About Us Living And Working In A More Transparent World

Glassdoor is a career website that is like a TripAdvisor or Yelp for organizations. All you have to do is search for the name of almost any company and it will reveal a wealth of information like employee salaries and reviews, pictures of offices, CEO approval ratings, and even benefit details. So nearly anything you would want to know about an organization can be seen, for free! The information on Glassdoor is shared by employees about the organization where they work. This exceptional amount of transparency is great if you have a wonderful place to work. However, if you have unethical practices and don’t treat your employees well that will also be uncovered! […]

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What Is The Number One Thing Keeping Us At Our Jobs

The research I’ve been doing lately has me starting to wonder…why do we stay at our jobs? Honestly, I think that the main reason that most people stay is because of money. If I told you today that you could leave the organization you were with and make the same amount of money doing your own thing, would you hesitate at all? Of course there are plenty of other reasons why people stay at their job, including having a sense of purpose, the feeling of community, and for the educational opportunities. But you don’t really have to rely on an organization for those things. They can all be found elsewhere. […]

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Is Working Remotely Career Suicide?

Jack Welch recently shared a post on LinkedIn in which he compared working remotely to career suicide. While it is not always easy to disagree with someone so respected and influential, I do disagree very strongly with the idea that working remotely will always kill your career. Of course, if you were to work in an organization that does not have the culture that accepts and encourages remote work then that could definitely be a challenge to maintaining your career. However, if your organization believes in and supports it, then working remotely should not be seen as an obstacle to advancing your career. […]

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Why New Hires Should Focus On The Company They Work For And Not The Job They Are Doing

Ron Storn, the VP of People at Lyft, has a very important piece of advice for recent graduates and anyone else that is on a job search…focus less on the job itself and more on the company. Solely focusing on a niche career doesn’t make sense and will just hold you back in the long run. Definitely have a career in mind but don’t let that stop you from taking a different position at an organization that you’re interested in working at. […]

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Why You Should Treat Your Physical Office Space Like A House

When you think about designing your house and floor plan, you consider how every room has a different purpose. You eat in the dining room, cook in the kitchen, lounge in the living room, shower in the bathroom, sleep in the bedroom, and you may even have outdoor living spaces that serve different purposes like relaxing or al fresco dining. So when we are designing our physical office spaces, why don’t we take the same approach? There is a lot of debate over having an open versus closed office floor plan, but those debates are missing the point. […]

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