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2015 Edelman Trust Barometer

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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Edelman’s annual look at Trust among different stakeholders (inside and outside organizations), in nations across the world.

In terms of trust in individuals, people look first to:
1. Academic/Industry Experts
2. Company Technical Expert
3. A person like yourself
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7. CEOs
8. Government officials
2015 Edelman Trust Barometer
“View the results of Edelman’s 15th annual exploration of trust, which surveyed 33,000 people in 27 countries around the world on their trust in government, m…”

Also the details of the study here: http://bit.ly/16UXItB

[Cross-posted from Facebook on February 11, 2015 at 03:01PM]

[Facebook]: To survive, companies need to stop hiding behind their walls

10 Tuesday Feb 2015

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John Hagel (Deloitte Center for the Edge) and John Seely Brown describe how companies need to work beyond themselves. One example is GE Appliances starting micro-factories with small groups of people across roles focused on a single run, project or customer need. This is is very much like the French gearbox manufacturer, FAVI, I talked about last week at Enterprise 2.0 Summit (and well documented in several books). In my presentation, there is a natural evolution of social collaboration beyond processes, to cross-employee cooperation, and finally to ecosystems beyond.

Their article in Fortune magazine.

“Rapid advances in technology have led to more volatile demand for products and services, sudden shifts in customer expectations, and an overall need to respond faster and more flexibly to a changing environment. Companies that go it alone will struggle to find the talent and resources they need to compete. Businesses will need to work with others, those outside their walls, to do this.

“Companies need to respond faster and more flexibly to a changing environment. They cannot do this alone.”

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[Slideshare]: Culture Mapping in Digital Transformation

09 Monday Feb 2015

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Our understanding of the concept of Culture at work is expanding beyond simpler notions like organizationals values and culture. We have long seen culture as the creator of new value, purpose and meaning to why we work in firms altogether. This delivers beyond what we gain from transactional processes. So if you are seeking ROI out of reengineering your processes and transactions to incorporate enterprise social network interactions, then what you are looking for is dedication, loyalty, drive. This is what can make Digital transformation more than the sum of its parts. This sociographic look at digital transformation shares some of the old and the new ways how we can examine and even measure culture to discover and drive new business value.

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[Facebook]: Why You Hate Work – NY Times

24 Saturday Jan 2015

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Tony Schwartz of the Energy Project, wrote an op-ed piece, “Why You Hate Work” on employee engagement on The New York Times in May last year that still is quite interesting

“A truly human-centered organization puts its people first — even above customers — because it recognizes that they are the key to creating long-term value. Costco, for example, pays its average worker $20.89 an hour, Businessweek reported last year, about 65 percent more than Walmart, which owns its biggest competitor, Sam’s Club. Over time, Costco’s huge investment in employees — including offering benefits to part-time workers — has proved to be a distinct advantage.

Costco’s employees generate nearly twice the sales of Sam’s Club employees. Costco has about 5 percent turnover among employees who stay at least a year, and the overall rate is far lower than that of Walmart. In turn, the reduced costs of recruiting and training new employees saves Costco several hundred million dollars a year. Between 2003 and 2013, Costco’s stock rose more than 200 percent, compared with about 50 percent for Walmart’s. What will prompt more companies to invest more in their employees?”

http://nyti.ms/1uI3Ctf
Why You Hate Work
“Excessive demands are leading to burnout everywhere.”

[Cross-posted from Facebook on January 24, 2015 at 11:41AM]

[Facebook]: Frederic Laloux: ‘there is something in the air’

24 Saturday Jan 2015

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Lee Bryant shared his thoughts on the RSA event where Frederic Laloux / Reinventing Organizations spoke recently.

I added one other observation on self-management, per my conversation with Laloux and reviewing his book and others, as a comment to Lee’s post.

Is self-management something that works well in businesses and services where people know and regularly the steps to be done, and where they know well what others are doing?

http://bit.ly/1uI2J3X
Frederic Laloux: ‘there is something in the air’
“It was great to have the opportunity to watch Frederic Laloux talk about his book Reinventing Organisations at the RSA yesterday, although an hour was a frustratingly short amount of time to explore such as rich topic. Laloux believes there is ‘something in the air’ at the moment, which is leading v…”

[Cross-posted from Facebook on January 24, 2015 at 11:34AM]

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[Facebook]: Soft Approach to Management: Yves Morieux, the BCG

16 Friday Jan 2015

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I interviewed Yves Morieux of Boston Consulting Group (@bcgperspectives) on what a softer approach to management #leadership means

It is posted here on the HR Tech Europe Blog.

The video of the interview is below:

A Soft Approach to Management: Yves Morieux, the BCG
“Rawn Shah, Forbes Contributor, interviews Yves Morieux, Senior Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group”

[Cross-posted from Facebook on January 16, 2015 at 09:17AM]

[Facebook]: WEF Global Risks 2015 report on Livestream

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

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The World Economic Forum Global Risks 2015 report will be announced tomorrow. If you’d like to listen in to the livestream, here it is.

In 2014, the high risks were Unemployment & underemployment (economic), Climate change & Water crises (environmental), and Cyberattacks (technological), with Income disparity (societal) close.

I would guess these haven’t changed too much, although Cyberattacks and Political instability may rate higher.

http://ift.tt/1C1TcFw

Next week’s WEF Davos annual meeting is also livestreamed
WEF Global Risks 2015 report on Livestream
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Cross-posted from Facebook on January 14, 2015 at 03:20PM via IFTTT

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I’ll be at HR Tech London 2015 [video]

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

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I’ll be speaking at HR Tech London 2015 together with Jeanne Murray, my former IBM colleague now with BrandsRising.com, and Frederic Williquet, blogger and consultant extraordinaire in Brussels.

Here’s a quick visual recap of last October’s event in Amsterdam. It was exciting.

 

 

[Facebook]: Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market

13 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Just had a great conversation with Wingham Rowan of Beyondjobs.com in the UK on the model of the future of work, finding work and workers for specific tasks and hours of time, that is goes beyond the usual matchmaking listing services of Angie’s List, Taskrabbit, and so on.

“We need to move to a world of selling spare hours. ”

It creates the possibilities for #multiployment. And not just for the high end skills market of consultants, lawyers, etc., but for the people who work in cafes, tend bars, do construction, do metalwork, and all the services industry in hyper-local markets in each town or city.

It is a compelling model for the Sharing or Collaborative Economy. But think beyond the companies like Sidecar, Lyft, Airbnb, into a more generic across the board system.

Jon Husband, Robert Pye, Jeremiah Owyang, Lance J Richards take note.

Here’s his TED talk describing the need for flexible work.

#workculture
Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market
“Plenty of people need jobs with very flexible hours — but it’s difficult for those people to connect with the employers who need them. Wingham Rowan is work…”

Cross-posted from Facebook on January 13, 2015 at 09:34AM via IFTTT

[Facebook]: How European languages evolved [video]

12 Monday Jan 2015

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How European (and some Indo-european) languages evolved, an animated map.

“This animated map shows how European languages evolved.

 

– via Business Insider Video”

Cross-posted from Facebook on January 12, 2015 at 07:58PM via IFTTT

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