Work at Home Moms (Jim Ware)
USA Today has a compelling story in today's paper about working from home ("Job Opening: Work-at-home moms fill bill.") --jim ware
View Articledifferent name different decade (Regina Miller)
On a lighter note, well maybe not...I wonder why he stopped with the 40s? This is a good one. Could it be simply a variation on an interesting career meme? (I've been dying to use that in a sentence,...
View ArticleFewer Working Flex Time? (Elizabeth Albrycht)
Fewer working flex time? That is the question addressed by this USA Today article. "The number of full-time wage and salary workers age 16 and older on flexible schedules dropped from 29 million in May...
View ArticleLearning from your mistakes (Jim McGee)
Some good advice about the important role of mistakes and what to do with them. My goal has always been to make "interesting mistakes." New essay: how to learn from your mistakes. If you're doing...
View ArticleAn Impending Implosion? (Jim Ware)
Just picked this off IFTF's Future Now, the blog of the Institute for the Future: 'Provocatively, from Knowledge@Wharton : ... "Something fundamentally big is happening that will profoundly affect the...
View ArticleVirtuality Reigns (Jim Ware)
Nasdaq - a stock exchange that exists only virtually, with no physical trading floor - was opened yesterday by Cisco CEO John Chambers at a ceremony in San Jose, California - the first time that the...
View ArticleMangement Diva (Regina Miller)
In this season of "open enrollment" (the time in companies - usually in the fall when people have a chance to change and/or enroll in benefit health care plans,) I am reminded about the scary nature of...
View ArticleMobile Work - An Update (Jim Ware)
Optimize Magazine has just published a thoughtful set of ideas from guru Tom Davenport about the challenges of managing mobile workers. Well worth reading. But I also invite you to read my own synopsis...
View ArticleVOIP Takes Off (Jim Ware)
The Business 2.0 blog alerted me to an important August 18 Associated Press story ("Number of U.S. Internet phone users soars"). From the AP article: "An analysis by the TeleGeography research group...
View ArticleMore on Experience Design (Jim Ware)
For those of you who are deeply interested in experience design, I recommend taking a look at Corante's newest blog, called - strangely enough - Total Experience. It's being produced by my good friend...
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Here's another article that chronicles how professions are changing, particularly as it relates to the variety of cross-disciplinary skills that are required. As more and more people start working at...
View ArticleHot Jobs and Careers on Old Fashioned Radio (Regina Miller)
Some advice about hot jobs and careers of the future by Michael Prospero of Fast Company who will appear on an old fashioned radio show on October 6th at 10:10 AM EST. He will appear on Joan Hamburg's...
View ArticleMcKinsey on Org Structure (Regina Miller)
This McKinsey article relates to my previous post in that McKinsey recommends, relatively radically I think, how orgs should structure in order to make the best use of knowledge workers and talent...
View ArticleU.S. Engineers Concerned About Competitiveness (Jim Ware)
Today's San Francisco Chronicle carries an important story by technology writer Tom Abate ("Tech engineers fear U.S. is falling behind"). It reports on a recent survey by EE Times magazine showing that...
View ArticleLiving the Google Life (Jim Ware)
Hylton Joliffe alerted me to a great piece in the latest issue of Newsweek on the "secret sauce" in Google's management practices ("Google: Ten Golden Rules"). It's a great recipe for leveraging the...
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