Work Is a Mess; Exposed by COVID For many years, we as an economy have largely ignored this conflation of these complex influences; metaphorically holding our breath and hoping people figured out how to make the traditional (read: outdated) model of organizational governance and employment work. The strain of that ignorance has fallen mostly on
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Working remotely makes them that much more difficult. Working remotely makes them that much more difficult. My experience has taught me some valuable management lessons.
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Now available – new research on Enterprise community programs, how they operate, and what impact they have. Digital Workplace Communities in 2021 offers data about the changing visibility and impact of these programs, especially as organizations adjusted to the COVID pandemic and now as they navigate a hybrid workplace. The results are remarkable. Those organizations
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Employees are drowning in the network effects created by the myriad internal and external communications and content channels.The Great Reevaluation is creating such untenable situations for people that they are leaving jobs without first finding another one – even in the U.S. where they risk losing health care. They are doing it against their economic
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Organizational strategies need to adapt to unleash the potential of our organizations but are constrained by outdated mental models.
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After a twelve-year run at The Community Roundtable, I am transitioning to a new venture reflective of the work I want to pursue more closely at this time. TheCR will remain and do much of the same work it always has. Its value is more vital than ever – and needed as more of the
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During the pandemic, there has been a lot of self-congratulatory excitement as organizations went ‘virtual.’ It feels like a lot of the conversation about going back to work focuses on the physical presence — rather than on the behaviors that will enable the flexibility we enjoyed by working remotely.
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The workplace communications crisis
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Communities play a critical role in innovation. Whether in the middle ages or now cities, in particular, are critical to innovation. Cities are a type of community that produces a high cadence of collisions between a diverse set of individuals. This collision of people and ideas allows people to converge on what is meaningful and
read moreI attended a Get-out-the-Vote event for Elizabeth Warren in Nashua, New Hampshire, yesterday. I was already a fan — for me, she is simply the smartest person in the race, and that intelligence is combined with phenomenal communication skills, an inclusive approach, and the ability to get sh*t done. It is a compelling package. I
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