Holacracy – What’s the Purpose?

Recently, I was reading about Zappo’s transformation to a Holacracy model, which essentially means it has become a flat organizational structure without the traditional hierarchy of “boss-employee.” The employees form workgroups or circles based on tasks or processes that need accomplishing. As you may know … Read more

Organizations of the Future

Jacob Morgan’s recently published book “The Future of Work” is a fascinating observation of what’s happening in the workplace. He’s published several posts and articles as well which can be found at www.thefutureorganization.com all relating to the topic. He provides 14 principles of future organizations: … Read more

Compromise or Capitulation

Entrepreneurs are forced on a daily basis to compromise in order get what they need, particularly in the start-up phases because there is a lack of resources that can include money, time, products or people. It is primarily the lack of access to these resources … Read more

Workplace Civility Pays Dividends

Fascinating read in this weekend’s NY Times Op-ed regarding civility in the workplace. Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone in the workforce, but being nice is actually good for the bottom line. Amazing how simple things that are good for us … Read more