Social networks will displace business processes, not socialize them — GigaOM Pro
“Socialized business process” — the idea of adding social tools to traditional business processes — is unlikely to work in the long term. The…
Happiness Secrets From The Staff Of Delivering Happiness At Work | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
33% higher profitability (Gallup) 43% more productivity (Hay Group) 37% higher sales (Shawn Achor) 300% more innovation (HBR) 51% lower turnover…
Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact - Harvard Business Review
For most of the 20th century, the compact between employers and employees in the developed world was all about stability. Jobs at big corporations…
The Scientific 7-Minute Workout - NYTimes.com
Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest…
Nathan Heller: Is College Moving Online? : The New Yorker
This spring, however, enrollment in Nagy’s course exceeds thirty-one thousand. “Concepts of the Hero,” redubbed “CB22x: The Ancient Greek Hero,” is…
Paul Bloom: The Case Against Empathy : The New Yorker
The word “empathy”—a rendering of the German Einfühlung, “feeling into”—is only a century old, but people have been interested for a long time in the…
Informal Learning – the other 80% | Internet Time Blog
This paper addresses how organizations, particularly business organizations, can get more done. Workers who know more get more accomplished. People…
Zappos's Tony Hsieh's Rule for Success: Maximize Serendipity | Inc.com
My fascination with serendipity started in college. I think for most people, college was the last time it was normal to just randomly run into people…
Title Goes Here: Back in the Saddle
I fundamentally believe that great care needs to start with great doctors and great nurses, and we need to focus on scaling, not replacing, them.…
Forget The Mission Statement. What's Your Mission Question? | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
In a previous article, I shared five questions that today’s forward-thinking companies should be asking, based on input from top business…