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 for managing the resources and demands on...
MSNBC featured a fine piece titled “ Chatty Workers Are Best Telecommuters ” (thanks Dr. Bret ) with a delightfully colourful introduction... “For years the workplace commentariat has been nattering about the no-collar workplace. Companies will hire brains, not bodies. Work will go to the talent — instead...
You can count on Scott Adams, and his Dilbert strip, to have his finger on the pulse of the most current trends, as well as the curious frustrations and ironies they present. Here’s a recent strip touching on the topic of ‘home working’ with insightful commentary on key (and sometime illogical) obstacles...
The more I speak to people active in workplace and work-practice innovation, all fingers point to the Netherlands as the hotbed of the most advanced and leading edge work in this area. That is certainly the case in the Microsoft organisation. Earlier this summer, I spoke with one of the early...
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 Work for Every Individual . 4. Trust Your...
The Institute of Leadership and Management (an organisation after my other blog’s own heart) on the demands and opportunities for a new generation leadership in an era of Dynamic Work. The report is titled ‘ Tomorrow’s Leaders: Managing Teams Remotely...
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 to me the dynamics of senior partners passing...