11 million meetings a day
Meetings are ubiquitous in today’s organizational culture. Some organizations even have meetings to plan future meetings. But what does all this…
Human Capital Trends 2015: Introduction
Global organizations today navigate a “new world of work”—one that requires a dramatic change in strategies for leadership, talent, and human…
We're Not Taking Enough Lunch Breaks. Why That's Bad For Business
Did you take a lunch break yesterday? Are you planning to take one today?
Developing a Method for Measuring "Working Out Loud"
Enterprise social network software platforms (ESNs) are increasingly being deployed in firms across almost every industry as a means of fostering…
Healthcare’s Original Sin & Source of Redemption
The biggest companies have hundreds of thousand employees and are paying billions of dollars a year on health care. Rather than having these…
Why Big Teams Suck
In 1957, British naval historian and management satirist Northcote Parkinson painted a cynical picture of a typical committee: It starts with four or…
Innovation and Organizational Culture
People are reluctant to believe in something they can’t yet imagine or for which they don’t (yet) have a reference. The more successful an…
Why the future of SAAS isn’t SAAS, it’s network effects.
There’s a pattern that we’ve seen played out in the consumer internet space over the last 8 years and the template plays out as follows:
The Rise of Social Graphs for Businesses
If you’re a savvy social media user then you’ve already figured out that the knowledge a tool like Facebook is able to gather about your social…