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

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Future of work

5 Signs You’re Working For A Truly Great Company

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If you were to ask people, “what makes a great company,” you would get quite a variety of responses. It’s one of those things that’s hard to define but easy to identify if you are part of a great company. I’ve had the opportunity to interview, work and speak with some of the world’s top business leaders to find out how they run their respective organizations and have noticed a few things that I wanted to share here. It’s great to see what there are organizations such as Glassdoor and the Great Place To Work Institute that score and rank organizations around being a “best” or “great” place to work. Still, there many organizations that aren’t on that list and are still wonderful places to work. Truly great companies have a “future-proof” advantage. So how can you tell if you are working for a truly great company? Here are five signs to look out for. […]

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Are Managers Lying To Us?

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I recently spoke at a conference in Pittsburgh, and while waiting for my flight I started thinking about some recent conversations I’ve had with managers and executives at various organizations. Many of these leaders have stated how much they care about driving change, employee engagement, diversity and modernization in the workplace. However, when we look at many organizations, we see that oftentimes the exact opposite is true; employees are not engaged, work spaces are not modern, there is no diversity and the organization struggles to change at a snail’s pace. So how can these leaders and executives say they care about these things when these things are still prevalent? How can we bridge the gap between what companies want to do, and what they can do?

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Three Employee New Year’s Resolutions For 2016

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2016 has started which means it’s time for New Year’s Resolutions. I actually have a few resolutions that I’d like to propose for employees this year. Today is actually a very special Future in 5 episode, because it is episode 100! So first I wanted to say thank you for taking this journey with me, I had no idea if people would watch these videos, but they have turned out to be quite popular and started many interesting discussions and debates, so thank you you again. […]

Future of work

Turning Employees Into Freelancers Inside The Organization

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In our personal lives we play many roles. We look after our homes, we make time for friends, we play sports, have hobbies, play some sort of family role, and much more. In other words we aren’t just one thing or one type of person. Unfortunately, many of our organizations are structured in a way that only allows employees to have one type of role and one type of function. Whether you are in marketing, sales, R&D, IT, or other function, oftentimes you get pigeonholed and tend to get stuck doing the same tasks for the same team. Over time employees get bored or burned out. This is not how humans are wired, in fact this is the perfect scenario for a robot! It’s also important to keep in mind that the employee-employer relationship has fundamentally changed. Pensions are virtually non-existent, tenure for employees it not what it used to be, technology makes it easy to poach employees, the overall war for talent is rather brutal, and talent professionals have to consider the freelancer economy. […]

Employee experience, Future of work

How The Physical Workspace Impacts The Employee Experience

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This is part of a series of posts exploring the employee experience, that is, creating a place where employees actually want to show up, not where they need to show up. This series will explore what I define as the three employee experience environments that all organizations much focus on which are: physical, cultural, and technological. This is a growing area that I am extremely passionate about because it sees organizations shifting away from thinking of work as a utility to actually focusing on creating what Pat Wadors (the chief Human Resources Officer of Linkedin) calls “beautiful experiences.”

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Why Your Company Should Stop Trying To Be Like Google

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here have been a lot of articles written about Google’s amazing workplace culture. Many organizations today are seeing the press and fanfare regarding how great the organization is and are trying to copy it. Google has an open floor plan? We want an open floor plan! Google lets you bring your dog to work? We have to do that too! Google has unlimited meals and on-site dry-cleaning? We must have that too! It doesn’t always have to be Google though, it can be Netflix, Facebook, Linkedin, or any other “cool” company out there. The thing to remember is that these other organizations aren’t investing in these things for fun or because they wan all the media attention. They are doing it because these things fit within their corporate culture, values, mission, vision, and strategic direction. […]

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

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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? […]

Future of work

The Future Of Work Show, Episode 2: Inside Glassdoor

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In episode 2 of The Future of Work Show, I go inside the offices of Glassdoor, which is a site and community dedicated to career transparency. They have the famous “best place to work” list and visitors to the site can see all sorts of fascinating information about almost any company including average salaries, if employees like the CEO, what the corporate culture is like, and much more. I figured if Glassdoor is offering all of this information about other companies then surely they must be a best place to work, too, right? […]

Culture, Future of work, Innovation

The Innovation Ecosystem For The Future Of Work

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been exploring five innovation models that organizations can implement. However all of these are part of one innovation ecosystem that organizations must create if they want to be able to stay relevant and compete in this rapidly changing world we are seeing. The best ideas and the smartest people can be anywhere which means opening up the doors to innovation from anyone. Many of you might be familiar with the concept of open innovation but for innovation to truly be open it must allow for all five innovation models below which are: […]

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