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Social Media: The Game Changer in Finding a Mentor in Today’s Workplace

Guest Post by Rene Petrin Literature and anecdotal reports all indicate that having a mentor is one of the most critical strategies in building a successful career. But this leads to an important...

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January 2012: What’s Happened/Happening?

Recent Activity Work on the Move discussion group Work on the Move: Driving Strategy and Change in Workplaces, a new book on workplace strategy published by the IFMA Foundation, was officially launched...

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The Future of. . . (June 2012)

Here is a small sample of the stories and developments we are paying attention to these days. It’s our way of helping you stay on top of developments in the worlds of technology, workplace and...

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The Future of . . . (July/August 2012)

Here is a small sample of the stories and developments we are paying attention to these days. It’s our way of helping you stay on top of developments in the worlds of technology, workplace and...

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Power to the P2P

Jim Ware Every once in a while something you thought you understood starts getting more complicated, and more important at the same time. Recently I’ve become more and more fascinated with the power...

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Does Online Learning Dehumanize Education, or Just the Opposite?

I just found a fascinating video interview that Bill Moyers conducted with Isaac Asimov over 20 years ago. Mr. Asimov completely understood what online search and research would be like once the...

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Free Webinar on “Leveraging Mobile Work to Engage Your Employees”

When: Thursday, March 7, at Noon Pacific Standard Time Register:  https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/476196598 Please join me and my colleague, Pi Wen Looi of Novacrea Research, for a...

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“Sitting May be the New Smoking”

That’s what a business colleague said a few weeks ago in a conversation we were having about setting up our home offices – and finding the right desk and chair. We were both concerned about the health...

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How Times Change

Sometimes we can learn a lot about the future of work by looking at the past. Here’s a very brief video that reminds us of the subtle (and not so subtle) ways that new technologies change our work...

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Smartphones and Workplaces, Oh My!

My most recent “Talking About Tomorrow” hosted conversation was deep into a fascinating discussion about the “consumerization” of the workplace, when one of the participants commented “I think the...

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“Five thousand people are a whole lot smarter than five”

Some time ago I heard a story about a CEO who had opened up his organization’s strategic planning process to solicit ideas from all of the company’s 5,000 employees. When asked why he did that instead...

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WorkTech15 in New York is this week – I can save you $150 on the registration...

WorkTech is one of the best one-day opportunities you can find for learning the latest insights about the future of work. Phillip Ross and his Unwired Ventures team always  assemble a mind-bending and...

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The Way We Were: Why the Future of Work Will Be So Different

We have just celebrated Memorial Day weekend in the United States. It has been an opportunity to reflect on our good fortune as a country, but more importantly to give thanks for the millions of...

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White Paper: “Enhancing Employee Productivity and Quality of Life with Big Data”

click here to download a pdf version of the full report] Organizations today have an unprecedented ability to capture data about both their facilities and their workforce’s activities. However, while...

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Making Distributed Meetings Matter

On the eve of IFMA’s annual World Workplace conference, which I am attending this week in Denver, it seems appropriate to think for a moment about meetings that don’t take place in a “place.” I’m...

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Join me at WorkTech15 West Coast in San Francisco on December 2

WorkTech is one of the best one-day opportunities you can find anywhere for learning the latest insights about the future of work and networking with fellow workplace futurists. And if you register at...

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Ignore the Sigmoid Curve at Your Peril

We live in uncertain, unpredictable times. That may be one of the least controversial and most widely accepted statements I’ve ever made. The world in 2016 is filled with “VUCA” – Variety, Uncertainty,...

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Understanding the Four Critical Stages of Technology Growth

Last week (“Ignore the Sigmoid Curve as Your Peril”) I described the Sigmoid curve, also known as the technology assimilation curve and the “S-curve.” It depicts the way many new technologies, new...

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Taking Charge of Tomorrow: The Most Important Question in the World

For the last several weeks I’ve been making the case that you can improve the quality and productivity of your meetings with relatively little effort. Rethink the basics, offer a simple training...

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Digitization: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary

In October my monthly Talking About Tomorrow membership program (“TAT”) featured former IBM researcher and current Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford University – and Very Smart Person – Susan...

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