5 month ago
joshua : The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” - wonderfully bitter; presents an "unorthodox school of management based on the axiom that organizations don’t suffer pathologies; they are intrinsically pathological constructs" and therefore "Idealized organizations are not perfect. They
cobra libre : The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” - "Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort losers to fend for themselves." [via] #
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7 month ago
Linkorama : The cultural implications of E2.0 integrations: - ignore at your own peril Emergent Trends in Organization Change
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Linkorama : VatorNews - Social business design - David Armano recently asked the question, Is the Hub and Spoke Model Adaptable? Anyone who ever worked on a project team in a large organization, especially corporate enterprises, probably recognizes the hub and spoke team design depicted in the graphic a
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Linkorama : Free Information in the Organization Amalgamated Suckup dot com - The illusion of a healthy business comes from sales, progress on projects, and the ability to get funding. However, no one has put a dollar value on the increased turnover, loss of motivation, and loss to tacit knowledge the organization has suffered due
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Linkorama : Fear. Does your Organization have the Courage to Invest in Challenging Times? - It takes courage and leadership to invest in talent now. One of the easiest things to cut during tough times are HR and L&D budgets. While you may have to tighten the screws on your learning and HR operations, you will find that a continued focus on
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Linkorama : Productivity 2.0: How the New Rules of Work Are Changing the Game - Don’t crank out tasks — learn to work with a deeper focus. Don’t plan and hold meetings and form committees — just launch the software or product or service and keep improving it. Don’t spend time organizing — you’ve got more important thing
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18 month ago
Linkorama : CRM News: Trends: - I was actually trying to argue that we shouldn't have Chief Community Officers and instead a more decentralized process specific authority to accomplish the same
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21 month ago
joshua : How to stop junk mail
Jeremy Zawodny : How to stop junk mail - How to stop junk mail: I can personally vouch for Green Dimes
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21 month ago
Linkorama : On Process, Technology and Work Design - It has been said that sociology always trumps technology.
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23 month ago
Linkorama : Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way? - Here’s a three-step plan for allocating your time wisely—and strategically.
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26 month ago
gleuschk : Financial Clutter, What To Keep And What To Get Rid Of - ok, this one is new.
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26 month ago
gleuschk : What financial records to keep and how long to keep them - every single other page on this topic quotes this one (or quotes someone else quoting this one [lifehacker, you dopes])
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26 month ago
gleuschk : How to Use a Todo List to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever - Lifehack.org - the important bit is "just above the instinctive"
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27 month ago
gleuschk : Hackito Ergo Sum: The Library Problem - so deliciously geeky
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30 month ago
joshua : Organizing my stuff - on categorization. kinda unixy
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31 month ago
Linkorama : ODD Lexicon - I’m still digesting the paper, but was immediately drawn to the lexicon developed by AT&T’s Opportunity Discovery Department (ODD). It’s familiar territory to anyone that’s experienced large organizational behavior.
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Decisions, information, decoupling and automation - Thus I believe organizations should think about how to get decisions (or at least candidate decisions) to people, not just information.
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32 month ago
adamrg : Merlin Mann "Inbox Zero" - Quite good, my inbox flow isn't high enough yet to make this 100% applicable, but it will be.
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35 month ago
43folders : Unclutterer - "Unclutterer is the blog about getting and staying organized." _Very_ cool looking site.
joshua : Unclutterer » Daily tips on how to organize your home and office.
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38 month ago
jimray : Stikkit: Magic words, functional emails, and a handy cheat sheet - I like the combination of smart parsing by the computer and a small, but existent, learning curve for the person. SciFi has us believing that computers will just one day understand us, but if we can meet halfway, the future is NOW, MAN!
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39 month ago
43folders : NPR : In Favor of Mess - "...whether the moderately messy are more efficient, more resilient and more creative."
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Linkorama : Organizational Dynamics, Not Technology - And that's another takeaway in this post: Elevating people, groups (teams, communities) and networks to the same level of importance as data, information and process is long overdue.
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40 month ago
Linkorama : Meeting After Meeting - It is a common misconception that meetings ever decide things. Meeting never decide things - they only make official those decisions which have been taken before the meeting. Of all the things I have learnt this maybe the most important.
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43folders : Harry | Uncrate - "The more stuff you give him, the bigger he becomes, shaping himself uniquely based on the kinds of stuff you give him to hold."
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