Trends in Telecommuting

This Work and Family piece from today’s Wall Street Journal Online describes the ups and downs of telecommuting.  As the landscape in corporate America changes telecommuting is a trend to watch.  The employee’s market is coming…if not already here.

Where do you think this is going?  Give me your thoughts.

No Code Needed

In this article from Business 2.0 you’ll discover what the "rest" of the world is doing in developing people-specifically graduate students.  I won’t read too much into it (you can do that for yourself), but it definitely makes you think about what IESE is doing. 

What if we Americans could get our mind off of this quarter’s numbers for just a moment?  I am somewhat idealistic, but here’s to IESE and their desire to develop people in more ways than one.

Give me your thoughts…

Violet Leadership Series

For those of you in the Central Ohio area, I will be assisting the Violet Baptist Church in a leadership series starting Thursday, September 21st.  The program will be held during the lunch hour.  Basically a boxed lunch, insights from a speaker and a little Q & A.  Most of my duties will be playing the role of host.  I will also be a featured speaker at some point.  Stay tuned

Success Drying Up Brilliance

Is your success (you define it) drying up your brilliance?  Have you had a near loss experience, so that you realize that brilliance is a gift (just look up at the sun).  When we’re poor and struggling we can feel all of our efforts and failures.  They make us more appreciative and connect us to things that were with us before we were born.  Then comes success and we lapse into forgetfulness.  As it has been said before we forget from whence we came.

Tom Peter’s blog entry is rather telling about the affect of success on a culture (as it relates to health care).  He doesn’t talk about it from my angle, but the message is the same.  When people, or a country, become successful they can become lazy and dry. 

We should always be pushing the envelope with our growth, be it physical, mental or spiritual.  Pushing forward…

Funny how success can be our enemy or our friend.

A Cult or a Corporation?

Ever notice how some corporations operate more like a cult than a business interested in growing and innovating?  Note that this does not apply to every corporation (just in case you thought I was being a little cynical).  Think about it, don’t cults require that you see everything the way the leadership does?   Don’t cults kind of demand and value conformity.  Does that remind you of the corporation you work for?

Here’s some ways to tell whether you’re in a cult versus a thriving corporation/enterprise:

  1. If they haven’t started any new businesses (inside or outside of their core disciplines) in the last five years, they’re probably a cult.
  2. If they frown on true diversity (thought, personality, style, etc.) they’re a cult.
  3. If they see value in dissension, they’re most likely a thriving enterprise.
  4. If they serve their customer’s needs based on what those customers have asked for, they’re probably a thriving enterprise.
  5. If they’re more interested, and spend most of their time on, in what happens internally (policies, procedures and meetings that go no where), then they’re a cult.

Which one do you work for?