Our views of diversity in America are changing, but they aren’t keeping up with the global reality that now faces American companies. Traditionally, diversity-focused on the integration of people from racial, gender, physical ability, and religious perspectives inside of large corporations motivated by political or operational imperative, or social good. The idea was to … [Read more...] about New Fast Company Blog Post: Redefining Diversity For The New Global Workforce
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What is Emotional Infrastructure?
What is Emotional Infrastructure? Historically, organizations were either small, tight-knit communities or they were larger amalgams of communities more or less designed to achieve an organization's goals. Although organizations may be divided into functions or lines of business, the association of employment and brand offered common ground. Even in the most dysfunctional … [Read more...] about What is Emotional Infrastructure?
Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Nikita Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Nikita Freelance Planet It's the buzz, it's the buzz it's the buzz. That's Nikita's job. To figure out the buzz. As the Director of Conversational Analytics Nikita needs to tell her clients what their people are talking about. She works for a number of companies, but insists on the same title everywhere. It's in the contract. Nakita gestures at her computer and says, … [Read more...] about Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Nikita Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Inca Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
Inca Trial Separation The phone rings. Inca answers it. It is her boss. This time of morning it always her boss. Inca works for BankChina. She is the human resources manager, reporting to the Vice President of Operations. Inca and her boss take their jobs very seriously. She wants to work at the bank for a long time. She’s not ambitious, she just wants the security of … [Read more...] about Organization Next Workshop Follow-up. The Inca Persona. #e2conf #organizationnext
If You Think You have a Handle on Organization Next, You Might be Lucky, But You are Probably Wrong
Most plans are one-dimensional. They use the best thinking from experts to create a narrow range of possible variances to a set of underlying assumptions. You might get lucky and see those assumptions manifest themselves, or you might be incredibly wrong. If the future doesn’t fit your assumptions, you will find your organization, at best, scrambling to react, at worst, selling … [Read more...] about If You Think You have a Handle on Organization Next, You Might be Lucky, But You are Probably Wrong
