Most workers just need the money
Stumble It!The UK Guardian reports that in a recent ICM survey, three-quarters of people said they would stop working if they won the lottery.
If we needed more evidence that something is badly wrong with our organisations this is it. The bioteaming manifesto contends that our organisations and teams need to recapture the dynamic element which is present in nature's teams. Without this our workplaces can turn into prisons of dead compliance rather than places of living commitment.
In a related and equally depressing article Laziness, lies and organizational teams I comment on two other surveys – one about employee resentment over “dead wood” colleagues and the other about lies on job application forms.
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Effective Brainstorming: Top Tips
Brainstorming, despite the popularity of the term, is one of the most challenging collaborative activities to carry out. While most people think they know how to brainstorm, very few really understand how to consistently make a session work. Ken Thompson and Robin Good share some of the secrets gleaned from "The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm"
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"Fascinating lessons we can very readily learn from the most successful living systems on the key characteristics needed to operate a highly effective organisational team”. I am delighted to announce that, in collaboration with Robin Good, I have developed a new audio-visual presentation entitled "How to fix the three killer problems in your teams without any extra technology".
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Buzzle.com reports (7 Dec 2005) that wikipedia has been forced to change its policies to ensure that contributions can only be made by logged in users. Recently there have been possible libel cases around "false and malicious" wikipedia entries, 'vanity editing', and the question of how any of its entries can be trusted without author identification. To read the article.
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