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Category Archives: Perspectives
Ten Ways to Strengthen Your Family!
February 3, 2011 – 11:42 am
by Barbara Fagan-Smith
Often, our home life and family life gets the short end of the stick. After a long day at work, we get home with little energy to devote to our loved ones and our own dreams, individually and together. Here is a way to give your family the type of quality attention that [...]
The future of work: a call to action for inspiring leaders
January 24, 2011 – 5:43 pm
by Sandy Pfaff
As pioneers of the virtual work environment, ROI has been a leader in what it takes to build a collaborative culture of consultants. In a similar way, Salesforce.com has been pioneering the tools to make collaboration happen.
I had the opportunity to hear Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, at a recent [...]
A Simple Truth
July 13, 2010 – 11:20 pm
by Roger D’Aprix
As professionals we sometimes forget the simplest truth about communication. At its most basic level, it is really about human connections. I’m reminded of this fact as I anticipate our annual family vacation on the Maine coast this and every August. A college roommate used to say that this was the best part [...]
Different Generations Want the Same Thing?
June 28, 2010 – 7:02 am
by Aaron Heinrich
I came upon an interesting post the other day on the CRM Learning blog titled The Myth of Generational Workforce in the Workplace. The blog post reviewed new research on the multigenerational workforce by Jennifer J. Deal, a research scientist with the Center for Creative Leadership.
Deal argues that the stereotypes associated with [...]
The Movement to Open Communication Cultures
June 3, 2010 – 5:48 pm
by Roger D’Aprix
In my last blog I suggested that we were unlikely to see the fulfillment of a vision of full corporate democracy imagined by a new generation of anti-authority Internet bloggers. Their dream is of the end of corporate hierarchy and autocracy to be replaced by consultation and the flowering of social media that [...]
Who’s Managing Whom?
May 26, 2010 – 6:42 am
by Aaron Heinrich
Imagine this workplace scenario. You work for a company run by a member of the Silent Generation – those born between 1925 and 1944. Let’s say he or she is in their late 60s or early 70s. You are in your late 30s, which makes you a member of Generation X, and you [...]
Corporate Democracy versus Corporate Hierarchy
April 26, 2010 – 7:37 am
by Roger D’Aprix
A very interesting trend has emerged in internal communication circles over the last several years. It’s the formation of a group of professional communicators who are ardently anti-hierarchical in their thinking and philosophy. For the most part their position has been shaped by the politics and viewpoint of Internet bloggers, who believe that [...]
The Magic of Face-to-Face Conversation
March 29, 2010 – 2:58 pm
by Roger D’Aprix
A few days ago I had the exhilarating experience of meeting with four colleagues in a two-day, brainstorming session. The members of the group have known each other for years as colleagues and even as competitors, so this was a group with a common history.
Our subject was differentiation in what has become a [...]
In the age of technology, it’s not about age at all
March 16, 2010 – 8:35 am
by Aaron Heinrich
Anyone out there want to take a guess at how many entries you’ll get if you google “multi-generational workforce?” Try over 450,000. Sure, that’s not the over 20 million you’ll get by googling Lindsay Lohan, but it is an amount worth tweeting about.
As I read through some of the blog posts that come [...]