Recently I was asked to speak at a Employer Branding conference in Copenhagen. So what is Employer Branding, and what is my take on it?
The basic idea is that companies are competing for top talents, and therefore organizations need to brand them selves to existing employees and future candidates. The concept has spread across industries [...]
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 attended the “Leading through change” seminar with Dave Snowden of Cognetive Edge yesterday. I tweeted all day and the highlights can be seen at https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SnowdenCph
So did I learn anything? I certainly think it was useful to get “the unfiltered” version of Mr Snowdens thinking directly from the source. Also, it was good to get [...]
I his legendary article, “Organizational design, fashion or fit?”, Henry Mintzberg described the interaction between the external environments and organizational structure – and how organizations must adapt their structure to handle environmental pressure.
As explained by Dave Snowden, an increasing number of industries are facing complex and dynamic environments, which according to Mintzberg would drive organizations [...]
Snowden describes the age of complexity and how we need to let go of old management paradigms and use strategies such as crowdsourcing for decision making in a complex world.
And it surely feels like this complexity is actually escalating. Institutions are being torn apart, people around the globe refusing to obey authority, and bloggers are [...]
