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The work revolution is here and now! This blog discusses and investigates trends and issues associated with the international workplace, including effective communication, collaboration and virtual working.
26 October 2011
Many teams suffer from an oppressive preference for peace and harmony. Don’t get me wrong, I like peace and harmony, but it can breed complacency, laziness, neglect, and stagnation. When conflict, disagreement, ambiguity, and doubt are suppressed in a group – explicitly or implicitly – the most likely outcomes are a high level of passive-aggressive behavior and a superficial consensus.
By Terence Brake
25 October 2011
It's a new world for collaborative inventing. Exciting!
By Terence Brake
20 October 2011
We recently attended the EFMD Award ceremony in Maastricht, Holland, to pick up our Excellence in Practice Award for our partnership with ArcelorMittal.
By Terence Brake
17 October 2011
I am all for helping students of all ages engage in problem-solving – alone and with others – but is something missing in the process? If there is one area of study – apart from Dialogue - I would like all students to undertake it is Cognitive Bias. How can we collaborate effectively – or even live well together - when we have so little individual and collective awareness of the mental filters we use for acquiring and processing information.
By Terence Brake
14 October 2011
In December 2010, Brandman University had Forrester Research conduct a survey of 135 senior leaders and hiring managers in some of Americas Fortune 500 companies. These were supplemented by a series of telephone interviews in January 2011. The survey report is called Virtual Work Environments in the Post-Recession Era:
By Terence Brake