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Top 10 Habits of Bad Managers
In recent years the idea of good management has become somewhat unfashionable. Instead, writers and researchers have focused on leadership. This has led to a serious dearth of good management in our organisations. Thus, while managers are poncing about being 'leaders', our businesses and our people are suffering
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Devils in the Workplace - part 3
In a great book Bob Sutton has talked about his no asshole rule (No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't) and he has evangelised the idea of a workplace free from bullying. We are reaching a stage in our society where it is
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#LeWeb08 Paris - some thoughts
The theme for Le Web 08 is LOVE. Strangely I was walking around the area where the conference is being held earlier today and realised that the square nearby the ancient looking church of St Christopher was where the Edict of Nantes was proclaimed in 1598. How, you might ask,
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Devils in the Workplace - part 2
What does this work devil phenomenon tell us about the modern workplace? It tells us that in spite of the rhetoric about caring for staff, the reality is that as long a manager is seen as delivering results it does not matter what damage is done to the human beings
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Devils in the Workplace - part 1
We have all done it - putting on the special telephone answering voice as we pick up the phone. In our daily life, we use many different personas. This is not a bad thing as this helps us to navigate our way through daily interactions. But there is a phenomenon
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Why I like MBTI
Over the years I have been put through many different personality assessments in the course of employment. Of all of them the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (a.k.a MBTI) remains my favourite. This is probably a good time to confess my MBTI type - ENTP - which could go
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Social Media Community Building 2008
In Sydney we have had a great year of building a lively and vibrant social media community. Late last year many individuals decided that they wanted to be more connected with other people who were active in the areas of technology startups, entrepreneurial ventures and social media. As a result
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New article on workforce development
The article is up on the TAFE NSW website now - Workforce development: Case studies in private and public sector implementation A big thank-you to Michael Specht and the team at NSW Department Commerce for their time.
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Imagining Technology Futures - part 6
For me some defining characteristics of social computing (or web 2.0 as some call it) have been (a) democratization of the process of creation, enabling user generated content; and (b) mashing up of different applications and media to create something new. These characteristics are likely to remain part of
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Imagining Technology Futures - part 5
Another key feature of the future will be an increased importance in data management to enable the semantic web. Databases are the key to the future of the web. Until now we have focused on the frontend of the web, developing RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) as part of the web