new organisations

Sometimes revolution rather than evolution is called for.

Had a discussion yesterday with Kakul Srivastava of Tomfoolery.com, formerly of Yahoo, Flickr, and Tiny Speck. Got a peak at Tomfoolery’s coming products, but there are some UX changes coming...

Sometimes it takes an outsider to turn a group into a team.

succeeding in the 21st- century association jamie notter @jamienotter

I have been following the guys at Holacracy for quite a while now and I've been meaning to jot down some thoughts in a blog for some time. In my lectures in complexity I talk a lot about complex sy...

For the past 30 years my company has been involved in creating over 2,500 different performance-based job descriptions that define the actual work a person needs to do to be considered successful.

Have You Joined The Co-WorkingRevolution Yet? The population since I was born in 1966 has gone from 3.5bn to 7bn. "By the year 2020, the largest employer in the developed world will be 'self.' " ~ Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman of MIT Media Lab.

Spring is in the air, the days are getting longer and the crocuses are poking up their hopeful heads. Yet, these remain bleak times for too many job seekers, even leaders and managers with impressive resumes.The reason? The demands of a collaboration-based, talent-hungry, global, wired economy are evolving so quickly that success depends on nothing less than continuous learning. Fall behind and you may find yourself disqualified from the race.

In five years’ time, at least half of most enterprises will have their own app store to host the firms’ apps, as well as apps created by workers themselves to get the job done better.

Ik verwonder me over de managementboeken, -methoden, -theorieën en - modellen. Er wordt in mijn ogen veel onzin geroepen. Drie manieren om tot betere kennis over managen en organiseren te komen. Hoe werken die manieren?

The way we define “being an entrepreneur” has changed.

There is potential for mediocrity even in well-run companies, but the best of them know how to stamp it out

In life and in leadership, we are constantly dealing with duality. To learn, we need to be curious. To lead, we need to have followers. To be strong, we need to be vulnerable. To give, we need to receive.

Three factors have kept complexity science out of C-suites -- until now.

Leaders today are beset by overwhelming demands – scheduled every 15 minutes through the day, with an incoming barrage of messages via phone, email, texts, and knocks on the door. Who has time

The transformational leadership style draws on assorted capabilities and approaches to leadership, creating distinct advantages for the organization. A leader using this approach possesses integrity, ...

In the March 31st New York Times Magazine section, there was a review of Adam Grant’s new book titled Give and Take: A Revolutionary approach to succes.

Now that technology allows more people to work pretty much anywhere and at any time, what does that mean for 21st-century city planners and urban designers?

In de laatste aflevering van het televisieseizoen maakte het VPRO-programma Tegenlicht een rondgang langs de kiemen van het nieuwe Nederland.De tourguide van dienst was transitiehoogleraar Jan Rotmans, die aan de hand van ontwikkelingen in de zorg, de bouw, economie en consumptie een beeld schetst hoe het nieuwe Nederland er uit kan zien.