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Monthly Archives: December 2014

[Facebook]: My Top Forbes posts in 2014

31 Wednesday Dec 2014

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My top 3 Forbes articles posted this year were:
– Revealing Data Science’s Job Potential — http://onforb.es/1eVbQkP
– Leadership Skills multiply with Language Skills — http://onforb.es/1yg35yX
– The Workplace Of The Future Is Still The Office — http://onforb.es/1rBRsKe

The topics vary but they are all related to the future of work #fow as opposed to my prior coverage of Social Business. I think most of us agree that is the direction that #socbiz has taken over the course of 2014. It is much more than about collaborative tools, but the attitudes and future skills, as well as the setting in where and how we will work. This is a longer term trend that will span years.
Revealing Data Science’s Job Potential
“O’Reilly Media released results of its 2013 salary survey of Data scientists revealing the detail demand for expertise, as well the radical…“

Cross-posted from Facebook on December 31, 2014 at 10:05AM via IFTTT

[Facebook]: Outlook: Future of work in 2015

31 Wednesday Dec 2014

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@stoweboyd wrote his Outlook on the Future of Work in this GigaOm Research report. In the exec summary:

– Next year will be a turning point for AI and algorithms for business
– Mobility continues its growth towards highly personal devices and practices
– The heightened awareness of costs associated with a disengaged workforce have led to the rise of a new class of software: culture-management tools.

I’m particularly glad of the last point. This is a new field that traditionally has been limited to #HR depts. Just as project/work management tools are becoming simpler and for wider use, I think the same will happen to culture-management tools

http://bit.ly/1xyyxG8
Outlook: Future of work in 2015
“Expect technologies and processes that will make day-to-day tasks more personalized, enhance employee engagement, and alter the overall culture of…“

Cross-posted from Facebook on December 31, 2014 at 09:44AM via IFTTT

[Facebook]: Rem Koolhaas in Digital Minds for a New Europe

30 Tuesday Dec 2014

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Renown architect, Rem Koolhaas, has a great article about Cities that are truly smart in the Lisbon Council’s Digital Europe report. He focuses on what it means to have community rather than just imagined mechanistic order and predictability without understanding disorder and complexity.

Rem Koolhaas

“Architecture used to be about the creation of community, and making the best effort at symbolising that community. Since the triumph of the market economy in the late 1970s, architecture no longer expresses public values but instead the values of the private sector.

When we look at the visual language through which the smart city is represented, it is typically with simplistic, child-like rounded edges and bright colours. The citizens the smart city claims to serve are treated like infants. We are fed cute icons of urban life, integrated with harmless devices, cohering into pleasant diagrams in which citizens and business are surrounded by more and more circles of service that create bubbles of control. Why do smart cities offer only improvement? Where is the possibility of transgression?

… if you look at Silicon Valley, you see that the greatest innovators in the digital field have created a bland suburban environment that is becoming increasingly exclusive, its tech bubbles insulated from the public sphere.
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http://bit.ly/1xcBYDm
[Look for the paper under ‘Download Digital Minds for a New Europe’]

Rem Koolhaas in Digital Minds for a New Europe

“The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal is a think tank and policy network committed to defining and articulating a mature strategy for managing current and future challenges.”

Cross-posted from Facebook on December 30, 2014 at 01:11PM via IFTTT

[Facebook]: 11 Non-Traditional Ways to Reward Innovative Employees

30 Tuesday Dec 2014

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To add to my continuing research on Multi-employment and how the Employment Relationship is changing, it is good to take a look at what is currently considered innovative reward mechanisms. This is a list of award types or models, or ways how to deliver alternative or non-cash rewards.

http://www.tlnt.com/2014/09/01/11-non-traditional-ways-to-reward-innovative-employees/
“Where end-of-year bonuses once stood as the gold standard, today’s reward programs are more varied and reflect an organization’s unique culture and creativity. From peer-to-peer …”

Cross-posted from Facebook on December 30, 2014 at 12:31PM via IFTTT

[Facebook]: Will 2015 Be the Year of Worrying About Employee Burnout?

30 Tuesday Dec 2014

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Here’s a good article on employee burnout and work overload. But, it is quite interesting that after all the statements about overload, the section “What managers need to do” says nothing at all about reducing the overload and pushing back, just ways to react to it. It is almost suggest that this is sacrosanct, and we all have no ability to do anything about it.

http://www.tlnt.com/2014/12/23/will-2015-be-the-year-of-worrying-about-employee-burnout/

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A celebration of my readers

30 Tuesday Dec 2014

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You may already know I write a blog on Forbes.com and have done so on and off since 2010. I just recently passed a milestone in readership, sometime on Dec 9th:

Reached 100,000 readers in one year of my Forbes.com blog

It’s a nice round number and I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all my regular and occasional readers. I don’t put as much on this personal blog certainly, but then I have a number of places to share all at the same time. The various other locations (LinkedIn articles, slideshare, and various social content places) add up tens of thousands more, but it takes work and time to focus energies into one place.

Thank you everyone!

2015 is going to be an interesting year as well, I promise.

Stocks and Flows of Knowledge just turned 25!

18 Thursday Dec 2014

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The idea of Knowledge Stocks and Flows just turned 25 years old this month! Considering how much this is highlighted in social business, collaboration, the collaborative economy, self-management and other topics today, we should celebrate.

I think the first paper that I can find that suggests this idea was Dierickx & Cool (INSEAD) in December 1989, as “Asset Stock Accumulation and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage“, in Management Science, Vol. 35, No. 12

This later is reprised in David Deeds & Donna DeCarolis (1999) paper “The Impact of Stocks and Flows of Organizational Knowledge on Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation of the Biotechnology Industry“, in Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications. Paper 4, of the Univ. of St Thomas, Minnesota

Then again by Morris, Snell and Depak of Cornell (2005), “An Architectural Approach to Managing Knowledge Stocks and Flows: Implications for Reinventing the HR Function”

And more recently raised by John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison in their book, The Power of Pull (2012).

To go even further back, one might argue that Friedrich Hayek’s seminal work, The Use of Knowledge, published in 1945 in the American Economic Review, precedes all these, making knowledge flows about 60 years old!

I’ve bundled links to some of these papers here: https://bitly.com/bundles/rawnshah/l

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