Guardian Tech
The meaning of life in a world without work
20+ min · · As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose · Shared by 1370, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Claudia Sommer, Howard Getson, Dominik Grolimund, Liliane Ferrari ™, Jonathan Kogan, Andreas Von Gunten, Chris Messina, DonDahlmann, Nils Hitze, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Jane, Herbert Bay, Stephen C Sanders, Richard Joerges, Nir Eyal, Klaus Eck, Sergio Caredda, Kris Fannin
Harvard Business Review
The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy
6 min · · Rethink the role of people in your organization. · Shared by 356, including Birgit Schefer, Glyn Britton, Josep M. Ganyet, Victor Tolosa, Michelle Boisson, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz, Lucas Foster, David Cant ~👷🏻♂️, JAMESSS, Moritz Orendt, Jonathan Kogan, osioke.eth, Thomas Pleil, Antonio Vieira Santos, Bernhard Huessy, Christian P. Stobbe, Rodrigo Prior, Gerd Leonhard, Nick Floro
McKinsey & Company
What the future of work will mean for jobs, skills, and wages
20+ min · · As many as 375 million workers around the world may need to switch occupational categories and learn new skills. · Shared by 299, including @grzewap@mastodon.social, Sibylle Trenck-Germann, Gerd Leonhard, Tris Hussey, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Rob Leavitt, Nico Lumma, Yvette Dubel, Thomas Power, Alexander Seifert, William El Kaim, Education Architects, Patrick Scheuerer, Christophe Jean, haldimann, Filippo Antonio Capizzi, @mainec@fromm.social, Yonatan Levy, Ron McIntyre, Antonio Vieira Santos
Ars Technica
The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function without a physical office
Summary · 20+ min · · More and more companies take advantage of online collaboration tools to optimize workflow within geographically dispersed teams. Companies that are still in the early stages of experimenting with remote work models can take cues from Ars Technica, a news platform whose team of writers and editors have been operating without a physical office for more than two decades. In an informative post, the website’s senior technology editor Lee Hutchinson shares how his employer has turned remote teamwork into a success story. The best practices he shares will be valuable for newsroom collaborators and remote teams everywhere. · Shared by 225, including #MuskOut (not parody), Marsha Collier, getAbstract, Dr Catherine Breslin, Jennifer Ouellette, Sergio Caredda, 瑞拿頭, Jonathan Kogan, Rafael Zeier, Mathew Ingram
medium.com
Zebras Fix What Unicorns Break
10 min · · Magical thinking drives the startup economy — but we need a strong dose of reality. · Shared by 181, including Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Ruben Feurer, Ferran Sala, Kevan Lee 👋, Florian Hanke 🍎, Ben Tossell, Christophe Jean, Dominik Grolimund, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Niklaus Gerber, Herbert Bay, ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina, Mara Averick, Matt, Rand Fishkin, Dez S. Papp, Bernhard Huessy, uri
McKinsey & Company
The journey to an agile organization
· You know what an agile organization is, and why it’s important. But figuring out how to pull off an agile transformation is another question. · Shared by 73, including Oscar MacDonald, Arne Keuning, Thomas Pleil, Tom Connor, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Martin Kägi, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jonathan Kogan, Stu Collett
medium.com
The Last Re-Org You’ll Ever Do — The Ready — Medium
11+ min · · New (and old) thinking about organization design may lead to ever-evolving entities ¶
Established institutions have been reorganizing as… · Shared by 32, including Bertrand Maltaverne, Thomas Euler, Patric Fornasier, Christopher Allen, Patrick Scheuerer
The New York Times
Opinion | The $70,000-a-Year Minimum Wage
4 min · · A small Seattle company shows that capitalism can have a heart. · Shared by 20, including Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Adrian Swinscoe, Philanthropy News Digest, Patrick Scheuerer
Corporate Rebels
New Pay: Bringing More Fairness To Salary Issues
7 min · · Fixed salary bands, labour market data and negotiations – all are in the traditional compensation mix, and companies are reluctant to change. But what happens when responsibilities change? When people… · Shared by 9, including Patrick Scheuerer
Forbes
How Management Is Being Transformed: Drucker Forum Insights
11+ min · · Discussions at the Drucker Forum showed dramatic change in the practice of management in the most successful firms today, while laggards contineue to struggle · Shared by 9
HolacracyOne
How a 100% Remote Organization is Leveraging Holacracy to Scale
3 min · · Convert’s journey to self-management · Shared by 9
HolacracyOne
Ending the Blame Game
7 min · · How can you transform workplace conflicts into opportunities to clarify responsibilities? · Shared by 8
Boston Consulting Group
Do You Have the Courage to Be an Agile Leader?
5 min · · Letting go of old habits is the first step to a successful agile transformation. · Shared by 8
linkedin.com
Danfoss eSteering way : How do we work without managers ?
· One of the first questions I get asked when we talk about our self-managed journey is, how do we work without managers? And ironically, this question usually comes after the comment .. · Shared by 7, including Tom Connor
medium.com
The new business cycle embracing uncertainty
3 min · · Firms following the mass-industrial logic have given us remarkable material well-being over the last few centuries, but are increasingly… · Shared by 7, including Patrick Scheuerer
medium.com
The Feedback Paradox: Brutal Honesty, Radical Transparency, Radical Candor and Netflix
6 min · · Feedback is Necessary. It’s Also Hard. · Shared by 7, including Tom Connor