Differentiating the simple, complicated, and complex systems in organizations As a new industry analyst at IDC, my boss and mentor Sue Feldman recommended I read Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, by Mitchell M. Waldrop. It blew my mind and set me off on a path that would forever change how I think about
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A workplace community program is responsible for building and managing communities within an organization, such as employee resource groups, diversity and inclusion groups, learning communities, communities of practice, affinity groups, and innovation networks.
Community networks provide compelling benefits to organizations in a range of areas including communications efficiency, culture change, speed of innovation, productivity, and employee retention.
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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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The workplace communications crisis
read moreCorporate structures and practices have their roots in racism, which influences our assumptions about leadership, management, and measurement.
read moreNo one wants to be told what to do. The more someone tells you what to do or believe, the more you will resist — especially if it is something new. I often show people this picture of my daughter as a baby, getting her first spoonful of solid food. Keep that image in your
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