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Building the civilized workplace The workplace jerk definition I use is this:do people feel oppressed,humiliated,de-energized,or belittled after talking to an alleged jerk? In particular,do they feel worse about themselves? If your potential colleagues are self-centered,nasty,narrow minded,or unethical,he warned,you have little chance of turning them into [...] The rumors of the potential demise of SaaS seem to be exaggerated. True,there is a glut of companies,and the current business model doesn’t seem to give space to consolidation of services and customers. The traditional providers of business software implementations are all happy and cushy in the knowledge that their cumbersome implementation,[...] google. lower case google:you get more brand recognition and mind share by being a verb,not a brand:air is free,yet we all breath it. Now,to the point:zephoria asks for participation in her Case Study for the HBR. Of course,in reality,few companies have their senior management,or their [...] For whatever reason,I have been thinking about CMM these days. From the wikipedia definition:The Capability Maturity Model can be used to assess an organization against a scale of five process maturity levels. Each level ranks the organization according to its standardization of processes in the subject area being assessed. The subject areas can [...] You have a cognitive bias. Yes,dude,you are wrong all this time,and you don’t even know it! Specially,now that I live in a test environment,these words become alive: So we have gobs of busy people that might not know a lot about computers and security clicking and surfing all over the [...] Go fly a kite! So I went. And lo and behold,the kite became the metaphor for whatever culture I was in:It was just a matter of letting go,of lifting restrictions and eliminating poisonous influences,to start writing again. Do you think that Gaiman’s Anansi Boys is racist? Never mind,some people do. [...] management,culture,dysfunctional,stories [...] Leadership is broke. The hierarchical system is simply wrong,dated,and full of mistaken assumptions. See,it was alright to have a leader back in the Middle Ages,or a hundred years ago,when only a few were taught,educated and trained. In a strictly class system like that,hierarchical organization makes sense,because the [...] |  | ||||||
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