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Sometimes the dream overwhelms the vision. I have long maintained a vision where people worked more flexibly and dynamically. Dynamic Work Ltd. was a great undertaking to translate that vision into a viable business of helping organisations move in that...
With all of the UK election and coalition mayhem sorted, the UK government can now get down to the business. The official starting pistol is the opening of Parliament quite literally crowned by a “ Queen’s Speech ” which sets out the new government’s...
In my introduction to Dynamic Work, I speak of the surging business mega-trend towards flexibility in the current years... “Dynamic Work is becoming as much of a business imperative for the new millennium as was embracing the PC in the 80s and embracing...
One of the first issues I faced over a year ago is what to call this ‘thing’ . This trend, this approach. Certainly, there is no shortage of buzzwords being coined regularly to capture different dimensions to ‘Dynamic Work’. CNN has done a piece which...
I was describing the concepts behind ‘Dynamic Work’ at an event last week and one of the attendees described it as an ‘anti-neutron bomb.’ The ‘ neutron bomb’ was a concept floated in the seventies as a military weapon which killed people, but left buildings...
When I start to talk to people about reducing the fixed costs of fixed desks and fixed office space, the most common response is, “Oh, you mean home working...” Well, yes...and no. Part of the challenge of Dynamic Work is the too widely held view that...
In honour of Father’s Day, I thought I would pay homage to an inspiration of my father, Rev. Edwin Lynn, to my interest in Dynamic Working. Dynamic use of spaces where people come together must be in my genes. You see, 36 years ago, decades before carbon...
CIO magazine ran an article ‘ 7 Things the CIO Should Know About Telecommuting’ with great pointers on this tactic for exploiting Dynamic Work... 1. Telecommuting Saves Money. Truly . 2. Telecommuters Really Can Be More Productive . 3. Telecommuting Doesn't...
The ‘workplace’ for our children is school and this institution suffers many of the same issues as the ‘knowledge worker factory’ mode of daily working. And here too the notions of flexible and ‘dynamic’ learning are just as applicable. Dan Ramus , Microsoft...
I had the chance to listen to business management gurus C.K. Prahalad at the recent London Benchmark for Business event (thanks again Katie ). C.K.’s presentation on ‘ Realising the Opportunity’ talked about embracing the positive potential of the economic...
Seth Godin’s latest book ‘ Tribes’ offers up a passionate plea for more dynamic work fuelled by the initiative of pervasive and distributed ‘leadership’ for change. “Organisations are more important than ever. It’s the factories we don’t need.” I like...
One of the most prevalent obstacles I hear in terms of highly skilled knowledge workers adopting more flexible working practices is what I would refer to as the ‘apprenticeship problem’. At a Working Families event, a partner at a London law firm explained...
Gary Hamel , renowned author of ‘ Leading the Revolution’ , has just come out with a new work, ‘ Management 2.0 ’. If any one think that I am being a bit radical in my proposals for changing the modern day workstyle, then they should have a read of this...
My Microsoft colleague Terry Smith recounts a humorous tale about superfluous travel. He had a meeting in Bristol with a customer which he struggled to get to driving from his home in Warwick about 3 hours away. He finally arrived in a rush and quite...
A while back I met with our Victoria Melville of PR firm Inferno (now setting up her own firm Melville Communications ) who told me about their plans to move offices from their currently White City location. My first question was, ‘Why have offices at...
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