Last night at PubCamp I led a small unconference session around Enterprise 2.0, employees and profits, overall it was Ok but not as good as I would have liked. A part of the issue was a couple of vocal participants in the front row who kept heckling the group the robust debate going, Duncan Riley [...]
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I have been meaning to write this post for a while, about 4 months, and today Penelope Trunk provided the platform.
Penelope wrote about how to be a good manager, a great post but in my mind it can be summed up in one sentence.
So the first rule, and probably the only rule of management, is [...]
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Couple of related posts appeared in my feed reader today.
First was from Mark Pesce who wrote about the fact that education provided in schools currently does not reflect modern communication cultures. When a kid goes to school they have to disconnect from the “hyperconnected” world.
What this means, in a practical sense, is that students have [...]
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Over last several months I have gone through several changes in my life which has resulted in me reviewing many things.
I have been struggling with how to conduct this process, but I figured it is a bit like a reboot but I can’t really turn myself off and on again like a computer now can [...]
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Over the last few days there has been a really stir over Jason Calacanis’s “Fire non Workaholics” statement. While he has updated the words in his post (completely I disagree with his first version) I feel the bottom line message is still there. Jason wants his employees to be engaged and committed with him [...]
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Oh man what a storm.
Jason Calacanis has triggered quite a storm in the tech community with his post “How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips)“. Overall the tips are very very good, but the one that caused a lot of the stir was:
Fire people who are not workaholics. don’t love their [...]
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We all know disengaged employees are bad. Here is a story of a guy who had his mate shoot him in the shoulder (Hat Tip Evil HR Lady) so he did not have to go to work!! True story, I kid you not.
Sheriff’s detectives in Franklin County, Washington, say a man had his friend shoot [...]
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Found a great video (for some reason I can’t embed it in my blog) via Employee Engagement: Results That Matter put together by McDaniel Partners detailing some very interesting insights and statistics around employee engagement, well worth the 4 minute watch.
(Hat tip: HR 101).
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Just a quick follow up post, on my higher ESAT = profitable companies post last week. The 2008 Fortune Top 100 Places to Work for in America has been released, and the winners are:-
1. Google
2. Quicken Loans
3. Wegmans Food Markets
4. Edward Jones
5. Genentech
6. Cisco Systems
7. Starbucks
8. Qualcomm
9. Goldman Sachs
10. Methodist Hospital Syste
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Yesterday I caved and went back to Twitter, yes I know I am weak but that is a whole other story. There was a conversation about the red vs blue pill in the Matrix, remember the red one you learn the truth while the blue one you go on living the lie. I got [...]
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