Zappos has taken another unconventional step. Recently the company dropped official job titles as part of CEO Tony Hsieh’s embrace of Holacracy, the manager-less organizational method (see Leanership trumps leadership), also adopted… Read more »
It has become a common practice to preach and practice the dogma of cultural fit. The premise is that in order for a company to be successful, individuals have to share… Read more »
In 2014, I am adding a new feature: the Sunday Sampler. During the week I will collect pieces that are relevant to my interests around the future of work, but are… Read more »
According to research by Bersin by Deloitte, the long-delayed purchase of human resource (HR) solutions by many companies is finally going to happen: 61% of HR leaders surveyed last year said… Read more »
Roger Martin, the dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, has a piece in the Harvard Business review that makes a case for transitioning away from the 20th century… Read more »
In June, Reid Hoffman (the co-founder and now chair of Linkedin), Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh published an article in Harvard Business Review that presents some new thinking around business operations, specifically… Read more »
When it comes to the share economy and sharing physical space, Airbnb and its billion dollar valuation has stolen much of the show in the first act of a larger story… Read more »
Alistair Croll’s post on O’Reilly Radar this week may have been titled “There’s no such thing as big data,” but Croll believes the exact opposite. Rather than just collecting data, he… Read more »