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Is Your Company Designed for Humans?
Is Your Company Designed for Humans? – Peter Merholz – HarvardBusiness.org: …The companies that do best in serving others are those that do best in serving themselves. (Via Harvard Business.org.)
Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy)
Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy) – (37signals): “How can you apply Getting Real-ish ideas inside a big company? Here’s an idea: Go rogue. Pick something and do it under the radar. Create something in a few weeks that normally takes a few months. Do something in a way that works [...]
Should internet access be limited for employees?
A reasonable take on the question: Should internet access be limited for employees? (Via David Alison’s Blog.)
The Army, the Web, and the Case for Intentional Emergence
Posted in total. Shows there are some bright and effective folks doing good work in even the most rigid of hierarchies: The Army, the Web, and the Case for Intentional Emergence: “ Lt. Gen. Sorenson, Army CIO, at Web 2.0 Summit I didn’t make it to the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco in November [...]
A Higher Level Of Leadership
You Can Call Me Arne: “ Another federal employee checks in from the trenches: I work at the Department of Education headquarters in DC. Today completed our 2-day introduction to Arne Duncan. Yesterday he had lunch in our cafeteria (Edibles, ha ha), with his wife and children. His wife wore jeans and a sweater and [...]
Who To Hire?
People who get this: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr (Via 37Signals)
Managing To-Dos While Remaining Focused On Professional Growth
From Michael Lopp: The curse of any effective task management system is that you get really good at capturing, prioritizing, and executing tasks. To the point that you start to believe that merely completing a task is helping your career. After a solid decade of rampant task management, I realized I needed to augment tasks [...]
Checking Lists – Actual Versus Potential Safety In Hospitals
As recently as 2001, a simple procedure was added to the protocol of a top notch hospital in the mid-atlantic. A year later, this simple procedure was seen to have been enormously effective. They calculated that, in this one hospital, the checklist had prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in [...]
Motivation Versus Inspiration
Inspiration is “better” than motivation. It’s the carrot versus the stick. I’ve seen in my life how often a desire to do something evaporates in the face of someone trying to motivate me to do it. Now part of that is just the mule in me, but it speaks to a fundamental difference in perspective [...]
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