Blogs

   ‘Office Worker Factories’ are on their own deathbed. . The ‘Industrial Age’ of the 20 th century was defined by factories that produced goods at scale. When you mention ‘Industrial’, people think Rust Belt, smokestack, blue-collar engines...

Yes, it is back to school season. But Seth Godin’s incisive plea for such restructuring of education suggests that it may be ‘ Back to (the wrong) school’   season. Education factories fill Office Worker factories. Part of many Dynamic Work transformations...

While Dynamic Work is growing in mainstream acceptance daily, it is still seen as rather forward thinking by most. Actually, the thinking has been around for decades. Admittedly by one of the most prescient social commentators ever – Marshall McLuhan...

Seth Godin has been a real inspiration to me in marketing (‘ Purple Cow’ which inspired the ‘ Best Of Maldives’ section to my Maldives Complete blog) as well as in Leadership and Management / Embracing Failure . Godin even offers some sage insights into...

Last week’s Dilbert cartoon highlights a common misconception about Dynamic Work. The notion that changes mean a loss of something when in reality, when done properly, it introduces the addition of something. This cartoon pokes fun at losing privacy...

The whole notion of ‘ where you are available’ , which I vetted a few years ago, is not only becoming more accepted, but is actually becoming a bit of an explosion. The biggest incarnation is the whole Foursquare trend. Dilbert’s Scott Adams also chimed...

Flexible means stripping away fixed alignment and ownership. All resources are flexible. To be pooled and applied to the work load needed. The concept is central to the architecture of Virtualisation technology. But the approach does impose a new requirement...

...They’re all great place to work.  A least according to a recent study by Microsoft on the productivity impacts of telecommuting (as I happen to be recently speaking of Microsoft and ‘Great Places to Work)’ … “ Sixty percent of respondents to the...