November 2017

Amazon Echo Alexa

Alexa, how do I lead my team?

Last weekend I joined a Wevent in Berlin. Wevents are network meetings and „un-conferences“ of the intrinsify.me network. If you want to learn more about Wevents, have a look here. In this post I want to quickly summarize my impressions and share my learnings. Every Wevent has its own flair and is a little special. This Wevent was the biggest Wevent ever and had two special tracks with prepared sessions… Weiterlesen »Alexa, how do I lead my team?

Treasure 23 – Change, Marketing, Performance

Nugget #1 this week is a double feature and comes from intrinsify.me. They published two great articles on change earlier this year. German car manufacturer Audi decided to translate it and provided an English audio recording. So a great opportunity for my English speaking readers to learn why classical change management falls short and how to do it more successfully. By the way, I also wrote some posts for the… Weiterlesen »Treasure 23 – Change, Marketing, Performance

Pig

NewWork – Lipstick on a pig?

In last week’s treasure I shared Tom’s article about happiness. Tom mentions unlimited vacations and other perks that just mask work that sucks. When thinking further about it, I noticed that many NewWork topics can be lipstick on a pig. This is an English phrase for dressing something up. Today I would like to highlight three „hot“ NewWork topics  and challenge if they really help you improve value creation or… Weiterlesen »NewWork – Lipstick on a pig?

Treasure 22 – Remote work and next economy

Nugget #1 is on remote working and collaboration. It is a TED talk by Nicholas Bloom. I like his assessment, that remote working can have a similar impact as autonomous cars. It fits quite nicely with the benefits I’ve described in What has remote working to do with ski touring?. Nicholas and his team also measured performance going up by remote work. Performance measurement is tricky to do, so not sure… Weiterlesen »Treasure 22 – Remote work and next economy