Inc. profiles the story of Charlie Clifford and TUMI: “Charlie Clifford ditched a corporate job in marketing to start a business selling rugged leather bags made in South America. That was in 1974. Nearly 30 years later, he sold his company, Tumi, named for an ancient ceremonial knife […]
Megan attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston last week, and shared her reflections about the event in a long blog post: “What it all boiled down to for me is this. It’s great to want to change the world to be a better place, for work to […]
A few hundred miles away from where I live, Sir Peter and his band of merry men (and women … and hobbits … and dwarves … and elves … and goblins … and dragons) are busy with the filming of The Hobbit, which will be released in two […]
After writing about smaller bags for smaller gear, I purchased the Victorinox Digital Day Bag in Hong Kong in May (although in black, not red as above). It’s a very nicely made bag, it seems tough enough, it does hold an iPad (even in the Apple flip cover), […]
Gist released an infographic about the new workstyle, with a focus on leaving the old ways of working behind: Link: Welcome to the New Workstyle My Comments 1. I like it. Infographics are a great way of expressing many ideas together. 2. I don’t know if the corollary […]
The Australian part of Parsons Brinkerhoff has standardized on Acrobat X Professional for document collaboration among its staff members, especially for the sharing of CAD drawings and project documents: “Enterprise Group IT Consultant Rob Pek said the rollout of Acrobat X had helped overcome a major challenge in […]
Pollyanna writes about the damaging effects of gossip on team performance: “Work place gossip (like gossip in any situation) undermines relationships. A successful team is built on solid healthy relationships which are built on trust. Trust disintegrates rapidly in a culture where gossip is the acceptable norm. What […]
Jane McConnell from NetStrategyJMC has started work on her next survey about the state of Intranets around the world. Here’s the details from Jane: The 6th annual Intranet – Digital Workplace Trends Survey is open. Last year over 440 organizations from around the world participated and they all […]
Atlassian announced the addition of team calendars to Confluence, its enterprise wiki software: “Atlassian has introduced Team Calendars, a new add-on to Atlassian Confluence that helps product and project teams stay in sync. Available today, Team Calendars helps teams track and report project releases as well as understand […]
In late 2009, Rajesh pondered why some smart people are reluctant to share, with the key insight being that “knowledge” becomes obvious to them, and (a) they think other people already have it, and (b) it becomes part of them (internalized) rather than something they can put into […]
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