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‘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 of manufacturing. But just as prominent to the Industrial...
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Dynamic Work can start in the Dynamic Classroom. This is ‘Back to School’ season and I have done a few pieces in one of my other blogs (‘ Leadership and Management / Turning Adversity to Advantage’ ) on the timely subject. Both pieces feature endorsements of ‘dynamic work’ applied to the classroom. Diane...
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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 . One of those seers insanely ahead of his time like...
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The resistance to Dynamic Working revealed...
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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 workstyles and the balance between when face-to...
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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 direction. I was delighted with the support, interest...
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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 challenges and agenda. The text included the expected...
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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 the Internet in the 90s.” An organisation...
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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 captures a much of the distributed, indeterminate...
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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 and structures standing. The term was quickly...
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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 the only two places in the work are home and work...
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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 concerns, economic crises and intensified pressures...
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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...
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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 ‘Futurist,’ and steward of its ‘ New World...
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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 turmoil as being a catalyst for changes that...