Cutting Through points to a great paper on "Making virtual teams work." Trust is a huge aspect of any teams, and as this paper discusses, our ability to create and maintain trust in virtual environments is somewhat limited.
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Cutting Through points to a great paper on "Making virtual teams work." Trust is a huge aspect of any teams, and as this paper discusses, our ability to create and maintain trust in virtual environments is somewhat limited.
I found Carol Kinsey "Goman's Five reasons people don't tell what they know" from June 2002. The short version is: power, insecurity, trust, fear, and "no one else does it."
Gil Friend quoted himself from a recent speech, "Change is made more difficult by deep and pervasive errors in thinking..." This mimics what Goldratt has been saying for over 20 years.
Not everyone thinks the days of e-mail are numbered. Robert Hamilton and Ben Bradley write in Darwin Magazine about the how ingrained e-mail is to how we work. And, rather than fight it, they suggest one direction may be in creating environments which work seamlessly with email. They focus on collaboration...
In Jeff Angus' ongoing series on The Seductions (& Giant Sucking Sounds) of Metrics: The Average is Not the Territory, he talks about how it is easy to get distracted by The One Great Number (TOGN). Tip # 44: Don't be fooled. The seduction of a TOGN is understandable. And TOGN...
In case you are wondering, simply creating a policy to enforce behavior of your people won't work. The Computerworld "Security Manager's Journal" this week has a piece on discovering that people aren't following policy. After some hunting and discussion with a number of people, he decides to do a better job...
Management by Baseball takes on the topic of cronyism (hiring your friends and family) in Cronyism From Tropicana Field To Harvard Yard : The Wharton/Harvard MBA-run company I worked for didn't fail because Wharton and Harvard are bad business schools. It failed first because the graduates they hired they hired because...
In case it isn't obvious, in a post on making good corporate intranets, Gerry McGovern tells us that senior management engagement is critical. The intranet gets serious: Part 1 The surest sign that an intranet will fail happens when senior management is disengaged. It's easy to get senior managers to make...
My wife and I met two friends from the KM world for brunch this morning. Noreen Kelly is a communications specialist who has recently decided that this job market needs her to be a freelance specialist. Noreen and I are both e-zine writers for the Association of Knowledge Work (AOK), and...
Just in case it isn't clear to you how important team building and other human behavior aspects are to successful projects, this article describes the limits of hell that disfunction brings. halfass.com: Happy Family No Longer on halfass.com We used to be a happy family here at the technology arm of...