So let’s ban email.  But before we do, let’s talk about something else: auditing emails.  I know, the phrase has a terrifying ring.  No one likes anything audited and email can be highly personal, but Michael Schrage thinks that it’s a good mechanism to improve productivity.  No,...

We all know people that make decisions in extreme ways: the guy who snaps up a real estate deal in a matter of minutes or the person who takes 10 minutes to decide between fries and coleslaw.  Most of us fall somewhere in between, but there are philosophies of decision making that can sway most of us...

Fear can be a pretty powerful motivator, but it can also be destructive.  Yes, today’s unemployment figures can make every day at the office feel like a cliff-hanger, but the reality is that fear exists in the good times as well as the bad.  As human beings, we want to do a good job and we’re...

Work environment, it seems, is not just an important issue in flush times when the economy is good and competing for talent is a real problem.  Nor is it just an issue for high-tech, west coast companies.  Many NorthEast Ohio companies are taking the same approach not just to retain talent, but to...

In Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 Blog, Hamel recently posted a pretty scathing review of management’s role in engaging employees. The Global Workforce Survey, conducting by Towers Perrin, an HR consultancy, sought to find how workers from all over the world feel about getting up everyday and going...

Put this in the category of office cliche.  The office party where someone has a little too much and every form of career disaster ensues.  The viral video below is more than likely a fake.  Watch closely for the “Need A Job?” ad at the tail end.  But, in any case, it does point out the...

Remember workplaces with pool tables and beanbag chairs?  Remember Pets.com and 1999?  Remember thinking: wouldn’t it be great to work someplace that had a coffee bar and an foosball table? The following shows Google’s offices in Zurich: Link Scrolled down through all the pictures?  Feel...

David Pogue, the technology editor for The New York Times, focuses on cell phones and offers up some very cool tips and tricks to increase productivity…and have a little fun with them. Many of these tips come from frustrations we all have: Why do we have to listen to instructions to leave a message?...

Computer technology is funny. The smaller, faster, and cheaper things get, the bigger, slower, and more problematic they become. It used to be that sending a 1MB file took forever and was likely blocked by the recipient.   Today 1MB is child’s play, but that 300MB PowerPoint presentation…that’s...

Today, the definition of the ‘the office’ can mean wildly different things to different people.  For some, it’s about a view. For others, it’s all about the gadgets or even a representation of who they are as a person.  We found a photostream that is devoted solely to people’s...