For more than 15 years, my colleagues and I have worked with some of America’s "Great Places to Work.” We've implemented workplace flexibility initiatives to increase workplace productivity, effectiveness, and resiliency. Yet we've been met with real resistance and...
Sensitivity to Light Growing up, I used to tell my parents I was allergic to the sun because when suddenly exposed to bright sunlight, I start to sneeze. It turns out that I have photic sneeze reflex, also known as “sun sneezing.” It’s an obscure condition that...
For any given organization, culture is the essence of success, failure, growth, and decline. Interestingly, all four of those forces occur at roughly the same time. Essentially, the way any individual or group of individuals contributes to the well being of an organization is...
We all recognize the way people and organizations work is changing. Where and how they work has to change to reflect and facilitate this change. But how do you plan for a future when there is so much change and uncertainty now? I believe we are sitting at an important...
Over the past ten years, a new way of working has emerged along with people who live it every day. We call them the free radicals and, to us, they represent the future of work: they operate 24/7 through nimble, networked collaboration; they are averse to rigid hierarchies and...
