Posts By: Jon

Charlene Li has developed a short and concise presentation about the implications of the networked workplace for leaders.   By and large it reinforces Harold Jarche’s (and many others) notion that work has become a process of continual learning.  I think it’s obvious that organizations should take greater notice and speed up a necessary adaptation… Read more »

I’ve been on semi-hiatus for the last month or so … gathering thoughts, shaking off the winter, watching the world unfold, some project work, speaking at a few conferences … but not blogging.  I’ll work my way back into it as it happens.

The term “social business” seems to be taking root.  It seems currently to be accepted as a positive force for addressing in humanizing ways the lingering effects of the industrial-era workplace, and is spreading wide pretty quickly. This is generally a good thing for which I am all in (see the interview by WorldBlu on… Read more »

Just went exploring, found one of my previous versions of www.wirearchy.com because I was looking for an animation that explained wirearchy quickly ..   …and, I found it !   If you click here … once on the 2006 version of wirearchy.com, click on the first image at the top of the right-hand sidebar, you’ll get a… Read more »

This piece was written a year or so ago, prior to the major bank bailouts in the US, the UK and elsewhere around the world, the attempted re-scheduling of Dubai’s debt, the increased polarization in the USA related to the struggle over providing more access to health care for all Americans, the crisi of legitimacy… Read more »

As some readers may know, I’ve worked with organizations on human resources, organizational/work design and organizational effectiveness issues for most of the past two-and-a-half decades. I’ve also been reasonably deeply involved for the past decade with the evolution of the Web and networks and how they impact knowledge work, work design, collaboration, knowledge management, and… Read more »

Some of the examples are dated. That said, I’m republishing this on the blog to see whether or not anyone has comments as to how far we may have come (or not) since then. What do you do as a leader – a CEO, a Vice-President, a senior manager – in the Knowledge Age when… Read more »

In the wake of the breaking revelation’s of Lehman Bros. alleged Enron-like accounting fraud, Chris Hayes offers the following essay in Time magazine (am I actually linking to Time ?) The Twilight of the Elites In the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society — whether it’s General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major… Read more »

First … no answers here.  Only questions and ideas based on past HR experience, observations and some familiarity with interactive and participative dynamics online. Back in January in one of the sections of a post titled “Exploring the HR Management Framework for Enterprise 2.0” I offered up the following: . Employee Performance Performance management has been… Read more »

From a post by Ed Morrison, who seems attached to the Purdue University Center for Regional Development. The whole post is well worth reading, and fits well with the working definition of wirearchy. Why network thinking is different [ Snip … ] In hierarchies, we are looking for the singular leader with the powerful vision…. Read more »