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With their un-organised approach to management and decision making Quakers are the poster children for collaboration, collective creation and getting things done. Quakers do not have a formal hierarchy and have no single person in control of their society. It is an approach to getting things done that aligns
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We had interesting discussions about many things last night at the ACS meeting in Wollongong. But one discussion in particular - about the use of social networking platforms in the office - really helped to clarify my position. I am getting heartily sick of the debate about whether 'young' folks
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Having recently seen the film, I'm now reading the comic novel Watchmen . It is the kind of fiction that really gets you thinking about many things. A great quote from the book is: The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... The solution
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- some more thoughts following on from the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. Here is my list of the top 10 enablers for Enterprise 2.0 - this is not an exhaustive list merely my notes based on sessions at the forum and various conversations with participants. One thing that is important
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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
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In recent days I have been going out to various ICT industry functions in Sydney. Two of the speakers stood out from the rest. The first was Robyn Henderson who spoke at the FITT networking session, and the second was Gordon Bell who spoke at the AVCAL breakfast. Each of
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Just had an anonymous comment on an old post. The commenter said: "Honey, you must be very young. It's not just about how hard you work. The ole' boy's network is alive and well - you just haven't reached a high enough level
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This article has been reproduced in full below, it raises some very important issues about corporate and individual responsibility. Even staff in the Nazi concentration camps were assisted in rationalising terrible acts because they were only following orders. Thus they could abrogate individual responsibility to act in humane ways. We
management & leadership
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 very difficult
gender & sexism
I do not have children, nor do I plan to reproduce - so I suppose you could say I have no skin in this particular game. But I've been thinking about the debates around maternity leave and the low birthrate that have occurred recently in Australia. The key problem
management & leadership
Aaargh!! It is an unending source of amazement to me that our society will not let a hairdresser cut your hair or a mechanic fix your car unless they've done a multi-year apprenticeship BUT they will let any half-wit who thinks they have a clue play
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One thing that the big focus nowadays on so-called 'family friendly' workplaces (including maternity/paternity/parental leave) has overlooked is that this excludes the many people who for various reasons do not have children. The question is 'what about us'? While parents are getting time