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How to Engage (and Keep) Young Workers

Many of the claims about Generation Y, the Millennials, are true.  I can say that because I am one.

What is NOT true are the assumptions and reasoning behind the claims. These claims are made with envy and resentment, in effect an expression by older generations of the mournful loss of an old paradigm that is [...]

January 27th, 2010 | Category: collaboration, gen y, leadership, management, newsletter articles | Leave a comment

Starbucks, Laptops, and Trust

Here I am at Starbucks, and I really have to pee. Trouble is, I’m all by myself. I could ask the woman next to me to watch my laptop, but I hesitate on that for awhile because I don’t even know her. What makes me think I can trust her? Or that [...]

January 25th, 2010 | Category: leadership, management, trust | Leave a comment

Forget the Damn Ladder Already

Everything I read about leadership, especially in and around Silicon Valley, talks about “managing up” and climbing the corporate ladder. You would think that since Silicon Valley is on the cutting edge of everything else, it would be getting this right.

When Gen Y walks up to the bottom of that ladder, do we [...]

January 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: collaboration, gen y, leadership, management | One comment

Time Management 2.0

Have you noticed that the old concept of time management is no longer working?

It centered on how to fit everything you want to do into a 24-hour period. Time management is no longer about getting more done. In order to be sustainably effective, “time management” must answer a different question.

The following four principles can help you manage your time so that you spend it wisely. [...]

January 19th, 2010 | Category: time | Leave a comment