Wonderful piece in the Wall Street Journal online about why the performance review system is broken by Dr. Samuel Culbert, a consultant, author and professor of management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles. Here are a few criticisms of why performance review systems in a traditional work environment suck (our words, not his), [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Free ROWE Pilot for Twin Cities Companies – No Joke!
We’re all much too familiar with the scenes of rush traffic in every metro area in the U.S. Every weekday at the same time, people flock to their cars and sit…and sit, and sit, and sit…on congested freeways – sometimes for hours – trying to get to the office. They get there and spend the [...]
Interview with Dan Pink: Part 2
Here it is – part 2 of our interview with Dan Pink, best-selling author of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. Enjoy. C&J: We talked about one of our favorite lessons from Johnny Bunko in Part 1 of our interview with you – “There is no plan”. Our second [...]
Interview with Dan Pink: Part 1
We’re sure most, if not all, of you know of best-selling author, speaker, and awesome thinker: Dan Pink. His newest book, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, is a phenomenal hit that we enjoyed very much. We first met Dan when he was part of our book tour for [...]
The Work-Life President
Both sides of the political spectrum are starting to agree that the next president will need to be an environmental or “green” president. What exactly that means is currently in dispute, but there is no question that the Environment (for lack of a better term) is now a permanent part of our political discourse. Changes [...]
Birthday Reflections from Jody
As I celebrate another birthday – really just a day on the calendar – I see it as another “marker” in my life, and a time to reflect and dream. Happy times, sad times - how many times do I have left? Everyone has a journey – and a story of what their life is, and [...]
Isn't it Ironic?
We work and live in a ROWE. We couldn’t ask for a better situation for running our business and doing the work of migrating teams to ROWE, being with our families, and living our lives exactly the way we want to. We evangelize ROWE every day – in the media, speaking around the country, in [...]
ROWE and the Bystander Effect
In 1964, a New York City woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death near her home in Queens. Exaggerated newspaper reports said that 38 people had witnessed the attack and no one called the police. Further investigation into the murder refuted that story, but not before the public imagination had seized on the idea of [...]
La lingua di Rowe è universale
We were very pleased to receive this post from an Italian blogger about Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It. We were even more pleased when we ran it through Google Translate and found that even a computer-butchered version of the post still communicated the essence of ROWE. Admittedly, the Guidepost about the elimination [...]
What is Everyone Doing?!
You rarely hear this question in a traditional work environment. It’s assumed that everyone is hard at work doing…well, something. If you show up at 8:00 and stay until 5:00, you’ve met expectations, right? When all of a sudden you stop tracking time, stop putting in time, and stop talking about time, all that’s left [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
