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IDEAS, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE CHICKEN-AND-EGG QUESTION

On Sunday, my friend Bill Taylor, founding editor of Fast Company magazine and also a member of the WorldBlu Global Advisory Board, had an article in the New York Times. Bill has a new book coming out this September called, “Mavericks at Work” and he’s writing a monthly column about these themes for the [...]

THE FUTURE OF WORK

I was invited to write a guest column for The Corridor Business Journal, a weekly newspaper published in my home state of Iowa. My column was entitled, “The Future of Work: Organizational Democracy.”
Here’s an excerpt:

All over the world people are voluntarily resigning from their jobs today. It’s not because of money, the [...]

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