Entries Tagged as 'Management'
Over the last 6 months I have written a few times about always on communication and the impact on workplaces, work life balance and productivity. Today is a follow up.
By the end of next week I will have had the Palm Treo 750 for 2 months. Verdict?
You take my Treo away I will hunt you [...]
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Two things occurred to me this morning.
Humans are naturally a creative bunch
We are more than willing to share our creations
How do I know this? Just look at the number of mashups (video, audio, software, & services) that are created everyday.
My questions is. Why in a personal lives are we so openly creative but when when [...]
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While there are lots of reasons for project failures, both IT and non IT, a major reason is poor execution of organisational change management. During the implementation of the project each individual impacted needs to come to terms with the change. Back in 2000 William Bridges and Susan Mitchell Bridges provided a good way of [...]
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I have been posting a bit about the whole Generation debate/issue over the last few months, and so have a lot of people if the Google Trends graph is correct.
One such post is Penelope Trunk’s on What generation are you part of, really? Take this test. Which basically states your generation is not 100% defined [...]
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Just a short post on emotion.
Have employees who don’t have their emotions under control and you have a toxic (Update: Kevin rightly points out that toxic might not be the right word but to be honest as given the number of different emotional issue employee could face having people in the workplace who don’t have [...]
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IM is finally starting to make it’s way into corporate Australia, I know we are slow off the mark! But this is starting to pose all sorts of issues. The Google Australia blog posted today about this very topic and it reminded me that after about 10 years of prolific IM usage where I currently [...]
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Having just come back from vacation I have had recent first hand experience of the work overload when you return. Last thing you want is for your restful holiday to be a distant memory 24 hours after you return. CIO magazine has 5 tips on how to achieve the vacation you need. In summary:
Plan for [...]
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A couple of weeks ago Tony Goodson sat down and had a chat with me about productivity, being a productivity buddy, Twitter and life in general. The audio is not the best, Skype was playing up and we had to record in 3 different sessions but we got through it. Following recording Tony went [...]
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It seems that Gen Y is not all bad, their technical skills save them, other than that we need to write the off as a wasted generation. What! Well that’s what 315 business leaders across Australia would like us to think based on the results of a survey conducted by SmartCompany in conjunction with Roy [...]
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We all know that most issues in our lives result from a lack of, or the wrong type of communication (well most of us know this) . A lack of communication between employees and their managers can be and many times is the bottom line problem in employee performance. Basically the manager is incapable of [...]
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