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Employee engagement is a hot topic right now. It’s yet another time of intense change and change always brings insecurity and/or opportunity for employees – both of which can be real challenge for employers.
So how should they respond to retain their best talent? Most corporate cultures and performance management systems... Read rest of post
Flicking through Marketing this week I stopped to read the article ‘Snapple is an object lesson in equity’. The brand, and article, highlighted two very important points; ‘a strategy that works for one brand will never work for another’, and strategies based on genuine brand equity are the only way... Read rest of post
From corporations to co-operations, old financial models and management will be massively challenged over the next decade.
The future company or the future business if you like, will be a social company because it prioritises people. I strongly believe this is already happening and Playgroup is one of 'them'. Thomas Geuken has some interesting thoughts on the social company in the article 'to be in good company'. So to take his words and make them my own I will argue that at Playgroup you are in good company, because after all we are a group of people working on tasks for the benefit of other people. We are a social company because it is a way of being together that builds on a mutual wish to shape each other in each other’s company. It's a place people are willing to invest in, in the hopes it lasts "forever". Work is no longer a question of what we do from 9 to 5, but more of a question where we’ll put our time, energy, engagement and talent, so that we can live a meaningful and happy life.
If you find this interesting and would like to explore it further I would recommend CIFS's latest book All Dressed Up - but nowhere to go which discusses the social company.
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I keep hearing of more and more people telling me their companies have locked them out of facebook. A decision made by management who are angry that their staff are using company time to waste otherwise productive hours.
Surely if employees want to skive off, they will one way or another,... Read rest of post
Here is a great little app that could sort out lot of your task management issues. Omni Group creates a bunch of helpful and great productivity applications and this is another one: OmniFocus.
Find out more about OmniFocus
