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Work is About Collaboration
Jan 19We work together. We collaborate. Being in a company means that we’re all part of the same thing.
That’s why this interview in Sunday’s NYT with SunGard CEO Cristobal Conde makes so much sense. Here’s the lead question:
Q. What are your thoughts on collaborative versus top-down management?
A. Collaboration is one of the most difficult challenges in management. I think top-down organizations got started because the bosses either knew more or they had access to more information. None of that applies now. Everybody has access to identical amounts of information.
The rest of the article is well worth reading, as well. Mr. Conde uses Yammer at SunGard to communicate with employees internally. They’ve been using it for 7 months and it sounds like it’s working great.
Collaboration. It’s the new micromanagement.
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Frank Roche
Frank started IFRACTAL over 7 years ago with Sarah Chambers. Together, they've created HR communications and HR software for some of the world's leading companies. Frank is also studying Flamenco guitar and origami.
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Jobs in the future will have different teams from digital workers because of the changing work force and virtual teams.
Like with the Internet today distributed systems will prevail. Even for work! Nice post!
In Europe there is model called clickworker and in the US Demand Media already based in this kind of ” future work “