… and the money that goes with it. Clay Shirky delivered an excellent talk at the recent Web 2.0 conference, covering topics from his new book ‘Here Comes Everybody’: In case you didn’t just sit through the 15 minute video, one of his arguments centres around television. When people wonder how we find the time [...]
Back in 2004, I read an article in Strategy+Business: The Wisdom and Worth of Generation Tech. Combined with listening to a talk by Tim O’Reilly, held at Microsoft in 2003 – The Internet Paradigm – it became evident that we were going to start seeing some disruption in the workplace as technology enabled new ways [...]
Last week the New Scientist magazine had an article about productivity: ‘Got a minute?‘ (subscription required to read full article online). It’s a good article highlighting the challenges with working in the face of constant interruptions, and includes the findings from various investigations, such as: Information workers, on average, get just three sustained minutes ofwork [...]
Don’t believe me? Next time you are driving a car (preferably your own), find a road that requires you to stop at the end of it (shouldn’t be too difficult). Now drive along and bring your car to a stop in a controlled manner without using the brakes. Either you’ll drive a lot slower than [...]
…that don’t come packaged with the software. There are probably more than 7, but these will do for now to avoid writing a book in one post: Who does the typing? Avoid micro-management Vaccinate against ‘cc-itus’ and ‘reply-all-itus’ It’s good to talk Let people enjoy their work Practice versus process Avoid work 1. Who does [...]
