Postmodern Life and Management

Via Scoop.it – Postmodern Leadership and Organizations(Speaking notes for an address to the Canadian Journalism Foundation   Toronto, Canada, 2/16/2012   “You’re gonna miss us when we’re gone” is not a valid business model.   How true!     Newspapers are one of those industries most clearly affected by the developments of Web 2.0, Social...
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Via Scoop.it – Postmodern Leadership and OrganizationsOur conventional concept of leaders as heros is no longer adequate and outdated. Developments in technology, media, and psychology as well as the sheer insumountable complexity of many problems facing businesses and communities today have been chipping away at the old models until they barely hold up any...
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Via Scoop.it – Intuitive BusinessThe role of women in the organization is changing and the role of men in the home has shifted. John M.   While you wouldn’t know it to see most organizations, their ways of working and the way they treat theit female employees and customers, women are slowly becoming a...
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Via Scoop.it – Postmodern Leadership and Organizations A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills — if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat — add your voice now!  ...
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Via Scoop.it – Postmodern Leadership and Organizations“The Business and Professional Women’s Foundation estimates that by 2025, 75% of the global workforce will be comprised of Millennials, meaning they’re very quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with.”   This generation will not sit quietly at communal desks, do what they are told and still...
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Via Scoop.it – Leading Lightly – Managing MindfullyAnother “List”, this time of skills for leaders in 8-10 years. It is interesting because, perhaps due to the intended audience, all of the skills are very personal and have a social aspect: Sense-making: Ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed....
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Via Scoop.it – Intuitive Business A new study indicates workplace flexibility delivers improvements in employee health and can boost morale, management-issues reports.   I am continually fascinated by the way rather mundane facts are studied and the results published as if it were some dramatic discovery.   This is one such case: of course...
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