I’m in a cafe near my home, working on a blog post about the crowdsourcing of (organizational) vision. Two booths down, I am sort-of eavesdropping on two people who are discussing social media. But I did not act on my (nefarious) impulse.  After all, I am an old fart … what do I know ? Powered by Qumana. MORE >>

(cross-posted at the FASTForward blog ). The title is a dead giveaway, and I am using the term ‘framework’ loosely. say that with full knowledge that the last two decades have seen a lot of talk and activity aimed at ‘modernizing’ human resources management practices. proactive change agents. and was termed Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

This piece was written a year or so ago, prior to the major bank bailouts in the US, the UK and elsewhere around the world, the attempted re-scheduling of Dubai's debt, the increased polarization in the USA related to the struggle over providing more access to health care for all Americans, the crisi of legitimacy of the Catholic Church, and so on. MORE >>

About ten years ago, when first developing the notion of wirearchy, a friend who at the time was the Dean of a well-known business school in Canada said: “ Interesting idea – and so what? &#. I think that’s obvious to most of us. For all intents and purposes, personal computers didn’t exist 40 years ago. MORE >>

( Re-published from October 2002 … browsing through old stuff, it’s interesting what comes up. The DNA of Hierarchy. In order to have the way the work was ordered make sense, the discipline of job evaluation was invented. The factors and sub-factors are as follows : 1. Know-How , consisting of 3 sub-factors : - Technical Know-How. MORE >>