My first real job was as a carpenter helper with Goodwin and Murphy construction company on a bridge building job on interstate 65 just south of Verbena, Alabama.
Purdue University has built five Top500.org-ranked supercomputers in the past four years, not by receiving millions of dollars in additional funding, but by improving the way in which it managed its r
Editor’s note: Why are managers so often short sighted at the expense of the long-term health and value of their companies? One reason is that compensation and incentive systems are too often geared to the short term. These incentives can skew our perspective of the bigger picture. Indeed, research...
Will reinventing management so that it is Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and Gov 2.0 'friendly' give us Management 2.0 Looking at the various 2.0s through the lens of engagement across boundaries&nbs
Our thanks to those MIXers who have given us their thoughts, in 140 characters or less, about how to take the work out of work. From Play-doh and musical instruments at meetings to praising risk-takers, you've crammed a lot of good suggestions into a tiny bit of space. Each one of these is a great...
Lately, I read an article in Business Week by a so called expert… in the second sentence the expert made the comment that you should love what you do.Recently, on Good Morning America a reporter was i
“Leadership days”? These would involve rearranging the organisation for a day so that managers can relinquish control to an employee one level down in the hierarchical structure.
What is the problem?Work has moved from a process that runs against the grain of human nature (‘algorithmic’ jobs – which require extrinsic motivators) to a process that must go with
