Mark Dixon, CEO of Regus, is a leader who gets it. And we like that a lot. Since founding Regus in Brussels, Belgium in 1989, he has achieved a formidable reputation for leadership and innovation. We like his history lesson about work, and also applaud the callout that coming in early, leaving late and generally [...]
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Knit One, Hurl Two
I couldn’t have been more tickled pink to run across a blog on America’s Happiest Companies. What a profound notion that happy employees perform better. Yay, research! I’d like to give a big ‘Knit One, Hurl Two’ to the forward-thinking companies listed in this blog. They are so forward-thinking that they’ve come up with new [...]
How To Have Water Cooler Conversations in a ROWE
I was amused by a recent article about the return of “core hours” and I very much enjoyed Jody’s response to it. One point in the article was that “water cooler” conversations were important and that losing that part of the workday is a negative aspect of going ROWE. Well, I’d like to share three [...]
OMG. WTF??
The other day I read Dr. David G. Javitch’s blog post, Changing Trends: Rethinking Telecommuting? Returning to a “core time” mandate could resolve some of the problems created by flexible schedules and remote employees, and immediately determined Dr. Javitch’s thinking is the problem. Not where people work from or when they choose to work. When [...]
Kraft CEO Serves up Some Bologna
In a Forbes interview with Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld, she spoke of choices we need to make when balancing our work and lives. Specifically she states, “. . . if there’s an important event in your child’s life or there is something that you need to do, do it. I think you can do it [...]
Cali & Jody on FutureWork Radio
Laura Goodrich, Innovator, Author, Expert Speaker, Radio/TV/Film Host, and Internationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and Change hosts the radio show FutureWork, a part of Linked2Leadership Radio Network. FutureWork is a collaboration of the host, the guests and you, and the audience to create meaningful solutions to workforce challenges and opportunities. FutureWork will feature reoccurring [...]
Ice Cream Anyone?
If you’re feeling overworked, burned out, and overall disengaged, we have a solution for you to make your booboo all better. The Ice Cream Man! Remember when you were a kid and you could hear the Ice Cream truck coming? You’d run inside frantically looking for loose change – or if you were lucky, you’d [...]
Flexibility Doesn’t Impress Me
Whenever we talk to a company about a ROWE, we often get the response ‘we’re flexible’. However, the nanosecond someone starts mentioning ‘flexibility’, they’ve shifted focus away from results. The difference between the ‘we’re flexible’ work environment and a ROWE is the language, focus and attitudes are totally different. Because in a ROWE, it’s all [...]
Modern Working Environment: Tools & Techniques for Virtual Managers
June 13, 12 p.m. CDT
