Before our conversation on Friday with Harold Jarche, I had never heard of the term workstreaming. Since last September, our inbound marketing agency has been a certified ROWE workplace. ROWE is a Results Only Work Environment… one in which employees are empowered to work as they wish as long as the requirements of the work are completed. As a small team, the one challenge we have with ROWE is communicating with one another. Some of us respond by email, some by phone, and some not at all (like me!). When … Continue reading
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237 Practical Case Studies in a Single Book
This book is a daring challenge to the business community. Gone are the top-down, command and control messages that held sway through the 20th Century. In are a raft of new techniques that start with listening, responding and action that set the scene for a continuing and evolving dialog about brands, experience, business and community. The following 237 participants took time to write meaningful content for the Age of Conversations 2, to provide a diverse and unique collection of stories in a single book. I’d really like to single out … Continue reading →
How’s this for Collaboration? 275 Authors!
In mid-January, Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan announced they were ready to take on the sequel to the incredibly successful Age of Conversation. I approached Drew very late in the process on Age of Conversation and, unfortunately, I could not get content to him in time. Drew and Gavin are back again, and this time I’m not going to miss it! This is quite an undertaking – coordinating a collaborative book with 275 authors – but I have no doubt that it will be a fantastic book with a multitude … Continue reading →