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Reengineering 2.0
November 8, 2008
Your business is going to emerge from this recession lean, or dead. The sooner companies get to the point where they have skeletal but consciously designed office space utilized efficiently by a skeletal staff, the sooner they will begin to manage their way out of this recession. This is Reengineering 2.0.
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8 Predictions for 2008
January 9, 2008
The instigators behind NotAnMBA released 8 predictions about business and work in 2008 / innovation, design, coworking, it's all covered.
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Cloud Management
December 23, 2007
I've never seen the television show Father Knows Best, but given the countless times I've heard it used as a straw man, I think I can say that Father actually does not know best. An increasing wisdom in the corporate world is suggesting that the old quaint notion that Managers Know Best is rapidly becoming a straw man. Management wisdom is no longer bottled-up in individuals or even in business schools; but rather it has dispersed out into the clouds.
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Meat-Butter and Jelly Sandwiches: A Co-working Manifesto
December 19, 2007
Over 30 years ago Peter Drucker suggested that there are only 2 sources of value creation in the work of a firm: innovation and marketing. A recent study by the London based consultancy, Stanton Marris, suggests that only about 5-10% of the total activity of employees in large firms directly adds value to end-users (i.e. customers), and that only about 30% of employee work is indispensable. Boil down the actual hours spent working on the work of your employer, and what most of us are really offering our employers is... face time.
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"I'm Outta Here! How coworking is making the office obsolete" (Jones, Sundsted, Bacigalupo) is a book about the people and places that make up a work place revolution. From a single space in San Francisco at the beginning of 2006, coworking has grown to over 70 spaces worldwide at the end of 2008, with more appearing almost daily. Read the book and you’ll see why so many talented workers have turned their backs to the office and said, "I'm outta here!" Available now in paperback and e-book.
"The New Business Dictionary" (Jones, Sundsted) Much of what passes for business is self-serving, highly mystified crap that enriches a few very dangerous people and does little for the rest of us. As part of our personal therapy for coping with the disappearance of honesty and transparency in business, we compiled this dictionary in the hope of skewering the dickheads who got us into this mess. Available now in paperback.
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