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"Selon une étude réalisée par le cabinet Millward Brown pour Google et présentée le 15 mai, les cadres estiment que les réseaux sociaux leur permettraient d’améliorer de 20% la productivité dans leur entreprise. "

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"Schwartz argues that it's up to individuals and managers to avoid the multitasking trap. But I look at it a different way: ultimately, it's up to institutions to make sure employees are focused. Businesses and government agencies that are serious about improving productivity need to tackle this as an organizational initiative."

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"Be sure to understand the role you'd have, what you could accomplish, and what you'd learn. A strong culture will set people up for success, and you need to be sure that's in place. In discussing your role, you'll also get insight into how the place works.

Then, ask questions that point the discussion to how the organization works. General questions — "What's the culture like?" or "Are people treated well?" — seldom work. I've come up with specific sample questions you can ask as you're interviewing for a job or talking with others who know the institution. They're grouped into six topic areas. "

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"In a study of U.S. and European companies, The Boston Consulting Group found that “over the past fifteen years, the amount of procedures, vertical layers, interface structures, coordination bodies, and decision approvals needed...has increased by anywhere from 50 percent to 350 percent.” What’s more, in the most complicated organizations, “managers spend 40 percent of their time writing reports and 30 percent to 60 percent of it in coordination meetings.” No wonder people feel like they can never get any real work done."

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"Lorsque je suis passé du statut de développeur d’application logicielle à celui de responsable d’équipe, il s’est passé une chose étrange.

D’un seul coup, mes camarades n’étaient plus des professionnels passionnés par leur sujet qui en parlent et qui en parlent et qui en parlent encore. Ce n’était plus des professionnels qui s’intéressent à leur discipline et qui étudient sans relâche les nouvelles innovations, découvertes ou bonnes pratiques, dans un soucis d’amélioration et d’apprentissage.

Non. Il s’agissait de Managers, comme si le seul intitulé, par je ne sais quel enchantement, leur infusait le savoir nécessaire pour accomplir leur mission"

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"But, while the dramatic advances in digital technologies have been well measured and quantified, their impact on firms, economies and individuals has been more anecdotal. We talk about how this digital revolution has been transforming just about every aspect of business, society and our personal lives, bringing us both near-magical products and services as well as their accompanying creative destruction and pain. But, how can we quantify this revolution beyond its technological foundations?"

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"How often have you sat through a meeting and said to yourself, “what a waste of time, I could be doing something better!” If your answer is yes, you are not alone. Meetings take up an ever-increasing amount of employee’s, and particularly manager’s time. My experience in working with executives and managers is that 40-50 percent of their time is taken up with meetings, that either they call, or have to attend. Which leaves precious little time left to actually get work done."

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"It’s a pretty simple equation at the end of the day. When businesses decide to invest in technology, they are hoping to ultimately get more value back than they put in. The time windows for such investment are generally 2 years, more or less. This was recently validated for me as I helped judge the entries for the 2012 CIO 100 Awards. I was surprised that many companies expect 100% ROI in rather short periods of time, often in just sixth month for efforts that may have taken years to implement. Whether this is generally unrealistic or actually achievable is besides the point."

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"Mobile devices have exacerbated an always-on work culture where employees work anytime, anywhere. They've contributed to the blurred distinction between when you're "on the clock" and when you're not. Service industry professionals are especially tethered to these devices. There's an assumption that using smart devices boosts productivity, since they allow us to work constantly. But, we're also jeopardizing long-term productivity by eliminating predictable time off that ensures balance in our lives. Is the obsession of regularly checking email really helping anyone's bottom line? Are the unrealistic expectations these devices facilitate not setting staff up for burnout?"

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"Most of us have had a boss who preached teamwork. Some bosses even like to put up posters with slogans like there is no "I" in team.

Teamwork is essential to organizational success but too much teamwork can be deadly. This is the point that Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, argues in an essay for the The New York Times. She points out the drawbacks of too much teaming. "Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption," she writes."

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A few days back I bumped into this very intriguing and rather helpful article put together by Jessica Stillman under the rather provocative title of “Why Working More Than 40 Hours a Week is Useless” where she points us out to a superb piece of writing done by Sara Robinson at Salon under the suggestive heading of “Bring back the 40-hour work week” where she questions something that I am sure most of us knew, deep inside, from all along, but that very few have dared to even bring up as a topic of conversation. Specially, at work. Basically, when was the last time you worked 40 hours a week? Or, more importantly, does working more than 40 hours per week make you more effective and productive at what you do?"

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" many Millennials are inhibited by anxieties peculiar to our time. I’ve already spoken of the FOMO problem. In this post, I want to share some of the other blockages that Millennials tell me afflict them. Next week, I will share techniques that I’ve found helpful in overcoming FOMO and these other inhibitors of building, creating and doing."

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"Dans Au Delà Du Capitalisme, Peter Drucker offre une formidable synthèse de sa réflexion sur la société de la connaissance.

Dans cet ouvrage publié en 1993 (sous le titre original de Post Capitalist Society), le pape du management moderne propose un cheminement intellectuel passionnant, visionnaire et dont la pertinence semble être confirmée par le 21ème siècle.

#hypertextual étant drôlement sympa, ce blog vous en offre les 10 idées majeures :"

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"It's not just the number of hours we're working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time.

What we've lost, above all, are stopping points, finish lines and boundaries. Technology has blurred them beyond recognition. Wherever we go, our work follows us, on our digital devices, ever insistent and intrusive. It's like an itch we can't resist scratching, even though scratching invariably makes it worse. "

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"Les recruteurs seraient sans doute souvent surpris s’ils pouvaient lire dans les pensées des candidats pour connaître leurs véritables attentes vis-à-vis du travail. Ils peuvent en avoir une première idée en prenant connaissance de la grande enquête « Quel travail voulons-nous ?», initiée par Radio France auprès d’environ 10000 auditeurs, et publiée en janvier 2012*."

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"La productivité sociale ou Social Productivity résonne soit comme la question de la compétitivité du corps social, soit – et c’est plutôt le lieu de Collaboratif-info - de la productivité des réseaux sociaux, sous-entendu d’entreprise.

Et si ces deux concepts avaient au fond un lien fort ? Et si aujourd’hui, la compétitivité des entreprises passait par leur capacité à se déployer sous forme réticulaire et donc à penser, agir en termes de réseaux ? C’est ma conviction. Les gains de productivité dans l’économie du savoir, viendront de là. Et quelques faits récents me donnent à penser que la tendance s’accélère."

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"Les modèles économiques du 19e siècle ne sont plus pertinents. L’économie des savoirs modifie nos modes de travail mais aussi la valeur et la productivité du travail. Sans pour autant améliorer la redistribution - qui lui sert de justificatif- la prégnance de l’Etat français sur l’économie productive déséquilibre définitivement le partage de la valeur entre les acteurs économiques. "

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"Shifts in global, societal, technological, economic, and socio-political trends will shape the future of work. The culmination of these distinct trends across multiple facets of societal and technological advancement will lead to an increased use of game mechanics in the workplace of the future. Over the last several years, several Microsoft teams have deployed “productivity games” to improve software engineering processes through the application of game mechanics. Augmenting a business process with game mechanics has led to significant productivity improvements. These lessons support the notion that games can – and will – be an important component of the workplace of the future."

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