Perspectives

Since yesterday's disturbing revelation, I've been  pondering more on the connection between employee engagement and corporate results. I had an interesting chat yesterday on this subject with Mario Laudi of Red Canary fame about work he is doing to develop a new...

No big surprise but yesterday's blog got me thinking. Really thinking. I was disturbed when I thought about Harvey Schachter's article that said that research showed that the most engaged staff may be the worst performers. Here I was blithely coaching away to the...

I would like you to meet Sam. Sam has a great job at Multidyne where he is responsible for increasing network uptake receptor capacity. He loves his job, can't wait to get to work every day where he gets to meet and talk with lots of interesting people about global...

As the week trundles to its inevitable close, I'm trying to summarize some differences between the old Industrial Economy and the new Knowledge Economy. Here's what I've come up with so far: As you may realize from these blogs, I'm trying to develop a new model of...

In the knowledge economy it all comes down to ambiguity. In the industrial economy if you were a front line worker or even a manager, it was pretty easy to see if you were doing a good job. Production was production and it was counted and reported on by the minute. No...

I keep using terms like the New Economy and the Knowledge Economy and contrasting them to the Industrial Economy and people keep asking me what I'm talking about. I've been asked this so many times I decided to sit down and actually figure out what I am talking about....

When I was growing up (or at least making an attempt to do so) we had allegiances to institutions or groups. If your family was a liberal, you were probably liberal. If your family was Catholic, you were probably Catholic. You drove Fords and listened to the Beatles...