I took me a while to realize the real value of a socio-professional network. In the early years as a consultant, I relied on more senior consultants for new opportunities, and during the time in IBM, I was surrounded by layers of rigid organization structure with systematic resource management and sales professionals.
In spite of this, [...]
Social tools and mobile devices can enrich our lives and help us organize ourselves in better ways.
But one – often overlooked – aspect of the new media reality is the steep increase in distractions and alerts. Calendar alerts. Email alerts. Social network alerts. App alerts. Task management tool alerts. SMS reminders. And so on…
Science tells us [...]
I once worked in a company that used “Your simply the best (Tina Turner)” as their corporate hymn. Apart from the fact that it was utterly untrue, there is a certain arrogance to it -”simply the best, better than all the rest…” . As anyone with a little knowledge of organizational culture would now, the [...]
I did a speech last week at the Danish Police Union named “fremtidens fagforening: union governance 2020″ (Danish for The future of Labour Unions).
Labour unions is a key part of democracy. The right to assemble and fight for better conditions for employees is still very relevant. Nevertheless, unions all over the western world are struggling [...]
We are launching toolturf.com today – tool wiki, community and blogs for business professionals and consultants. The idea is to provide an open forum where professionals can share methods, tools and thougths. For your convienience, we have enabled sign-up using Facebook, Linked in or Twitter. Everything is free. Looking forward to receive some feedback!
Thanks to [...]
Working in the public sector in Denmark right now means budget cuts and layoffs. My mother works as a music and arts teacher in a primary school, and as her educational background a bit unorthodox, (she is a Heilpädagogin educated in Germany, and education not fully recognized in Denmark) she is first in line during [...]
A reader recently asked me why virtual communities are not comon in public organisations.
As I have emphasized in previous posts, virtual organization is a broad term that covers natural as well as designed communities.
The public/governmental sector is traditionally associated with rigid, policy based structures. It is well known that bureaucracies (as described by Weber, and [...]
