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Most organisations are grappling with the digital revolution and its democratization of communication. The US Army is no different.
However, they have met the organisational challenges of social media head on and have become an acknowledged leader in practice. They along with other parts of the US military [...]
Had an interesting conversation with some friends recently and it got me thinking about what we work for.
In Western societies many of us work, in addition to money and sustenance, for self-actualisation (in a Maslowian sense).
Many of us pick work that is meaningful to us and [...]
A friend who works in IT support (for a very large and well known IT industry multi national doing security patching and stuff) just phoned me because his boss wants him to work overnight to do a release and then to front up to work again early tomorrow morning. This [...]
Recently I posted on bullies @ work & made some fairly harsh comments about a colleague who had been doing this sort of thing often and openly. The other day I actually had some time to talk with this person and discovered that they had been going through a [...]
I am getting really tired of bullying in the workplace. I’ve worked in many places – being in info tech I change jobs every two years – and the bullies are mainly babyboomer men (there do not seem to be many women bullies where I’ve worked).
At the moment there [...]
Picture two different women competing in the Australian team at the recent Athens Olympics.
The first had the misfortune to injure herself a few weeks prior to competition. She had surgery & vowed to compete in the games. Jan Pitman ran in the 400m hurdles at the Games, but she [...]
Killer Clutter – 25 June 2004:
“Cluttered desks, poor posture and hours spent in front of a computer are damaging the health of office staff, with increasing numbers suffering Irritable Desk Syndrome.”
I just knew it. Sitting at your desk all day is bad for you!
Meetings, on [...]
The Origins of Unengaged Employees has quite an interesting take on employee engagement, but I’m not sure that I agree completely.
Engagement is all about feeling like you are a part of something bigger and more meaningful than yourself alone. When I’ve been engaged at work it has all [...]
My post the other day on this topic revealed my complete ignorance of house & home magazines (this deficiency in my reading was kindly pointed out in a recent comment). I have rushed to the store to get hold of a bunch of womens’ magazines and have been reading them [...]
It is astonishing that many women in the west still seem to be obsessed with housework and cleaning in spite of the advances women have made in the past 100 years.
A recent series of visits to various online women’s groups (that are ostensibly about something else) showed a focus, [...]
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