What major paradigms affect your company and stakeholders? Has your organization gone through a paradigm shift? And if so, from what to what? What Brand U paradigm shifts have you gone through? How do competitive pressures, technology, or customer requirements affect your organization and work life? Do you agree with Handy’s ½ x 2 x …
A critical issue with all Brand U’s is to make sense of all the change occurring all around us. Company mergers, acquisitions, global competition, downsizing, outsourcing, computers, electronic commerce, and transformations have significantly impacted our workplace. As well, social and equality issues such as affirmative action, equal opportunity, diversity, and demographic shifts have caused significant …
Times change and we change. Latin Proverb We work for many reasons, including creativity, freedom, and income. Critial questions are: Do you work to live or live to work’? ‘ Do you do work that really matters’? ‘ Are you having fun yet?’
Work is often described in terms of a set of changing rules, boundary conditions, tools, and expectations: Set of rules. Most written and implicit work rules have changed in the last twenty years. Some of this is due to federal and state regulations mandating equal opportunity and protection. Boundary conditions. Until a few years ago, …
What’s going on when the economy is booming and total employment is growing? Let’s call it ‘just in time’ work. This popular human resource management philosophy says treat employees like inventory – when times are good, hire project workers and when times are bad, downsize surgically. This philosophy promotes organizational flexibility, facilitates rapid change, and …
Working on your self improvement Loving what you do and for whom you work ‘Owning what you do’ and ‘wanting to do what you do better’ Doing what lasts Not knowing what you’ll do or where you’ll live tomorrow Making good connections Creating synergies, not simply doing good Using the right tool for the job …