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"The list of the world’s CEOs regularly includes celebrities, billionaires, big egos, risk takers, and failures. What it does not include are social media experts; but that’s about to change. When IBM (NYSE: IBM) conducted its study of 1709 CEOs around the world, they found only 16% of them participating in social media. But their analysis shows that the percentage will likely grow to 57% within 5 years. "

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"It is time to rethink. Rather than thinking of organization as an imposed structure, plan or design, organization arises from the interactions of interdependent individuals who need to come together."

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"Which is more important to promoting collaboration: a clearly defined approach toward achieving the goal, or clearly specified roles for individual team members? The common assumption — and my personal approach for many years — is that carefully spelling out the approach is essential, while leaving the roles of individuals within the team open and flexible will encourage people to share ideas and contribute in multiple dimensions."

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"The InformationWeek 2012 study of enterprise social networking revealed that 87% of participants had an internal social network. Only 13% rated the usage success as excellent. The likelihood that a company viewed its success as average to poor? A chilling 62%.

What makes an internal social network successful"

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"To get a glimpse of what tomorrow's young global managers might be like as leaders, take a look at how today's young people think about communications.

For one thing, they are devoted to connectivity. In a recent survey of more than 2,800 college students and young professionals in 14 countries, Cisco found that more than half said they could not live without the internet, and if forced to choose, two-thirds would opt to have an internet rather than a car. This intense desire to be connected leads to a demand for greater flexibility"

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"Certaines entreprises songent à limiter l’accès de leurs collaborateurs à internet ou aux médias sociaux, estimant qu’ils affectent leur productivité. Cela pourrait bien s’avérer... contre-productif, à en juger par cette étude décoiffante du géant américain Cisco.

À l’en croire, plus question de recruter de jeunes talents sans leur laisser une liberté totale en la matière."

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"In today’s increasingly dynamic business environment, organizations must continuously adapt to survive. Ironically, change management has become a major bottleneck. Inefficient offline reviews are disconnected from daily operations and unresponsive to evolving requirements. Organizations’ need a practical mechanism for managing controlled variance and change in-flight to break the logjam."

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"Alison Maitland, a Senior Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School says that a revolution in work that will see many employees decide when, where and how they do their jobs could be as little as a decade away. "

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"Last week I asked if you were engaged in your work? Another post-Labor question is whether your job should have defined hours. This is the question asked by Mathew Ingram at Gigaom. Many people already do not have defined hours and I am one. However, I do not think there is a blanket answer. For example, many customer facing service jobs require either constant coverage or coverage during defined hours so the staff proving this coverage needs to be scheduled and coordinated. In addition, work that requires synchronous teamwork such as factory production lines need coordinated schedules."

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"Vincent Chriqui, Directeur général du Centre d'analyse stratégique a rendu public, le rapport du Centre d'analyse stratégique "Le travail et l'emploi dans vingt ans : 5 questions, 2 scénarios, 4 propositions", en présence d'Odile Quentin, Présidente du groupe de travail et de Jean-Denis Combrexelle, Directeur général du Travail."

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"Travailler n’importe quand, n’importe où, pour une meilleure gestion du temps et un plus grand équilibre entre vie professionnelle et vie privée ? C’est le pari du « New World of Work », un modèle qui bouleverse l'équilibre des relations au travail. Et qui annonce le job 2.0 : ultra-flexible, sans bureau, dans une entreprise collaborative."

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"Transparency may gain companies greater reputation, credibility, and trust in the marketplace. However, changing culture and attitudes towards transparency in an organization that has traditionally been closed is a challenging task."

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Management experts have long predicted the demise of the standard 9-to-5 workday. Thanks to internet and mobile technology, we can now work where and when we want, they argue. So, why are so many people still sticking to those traditional hours, or more likely an extended version of them? The reality is that while flexible work arrangements have become more popular, few companies have an official policy or program.

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Workers of the world, go remote!

During this time of economic crisis and reinvention of global capitalism, one of the things crying out for reinvention is the rigid workplace of the last century. It is amazing in the digital age that most work is still associated with industrial age work rhythms and the symbolic chains that tie workers, knowledge and otherwise, to fixed locations. Flexible workplaces with flexible hours and days are long in coming.

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Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

In other words, lets say you are designing a complex system -- an auto manufacturing plant, a new financial market, a hospital, the World Health Organization, or a large software solution -- the efficiency of the end result will always be limited by the efficiency of how the committee communicates

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- while the need for coordination of big tasks doesn’t disappear (and organizations will continue to thrive) a more 21C-way of working may appear alongside - flexible ad-hoc value networks, business ecosystems, companyconglomerates, etc.

- to leverage the full potential of your knowledge workers you better design for emergence and adaptivity, ie. allow for heterarchic configurations

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In this "free agent" world, professional-level employees seem more self-centered than ever before. How should their leaders deal with this change?

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