Entries Categorized as 'Economy'
by Mike Rollings | April 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
Lately there has been a lot of buzz about employers asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords. I heard yet another story about this over the weekend. While I don’t feel employers should be asking for social media passwords, this post is more about the irony that employers want social passwords but are not asking [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Economy Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Communication, Economy, Empathy, Innovation, Jobs, Non-technical Skills, Taylorism, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment
My report “Job Postings – Hiring for IT’s Past” published today on Gartner.com. This Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) report is a wake-up call for IT organizations because it shows that most IT organizations are hiring for the wrong requirements. In late 2011 and early 2012 we sampled current job postings in six major job [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Economy Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Communication, Economy, Empathy, Innovation, Jobs, Non-technical Skills, Taylorism, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
Last week’s post “Replacing Taylorism as our Management Doctrine” called for the end of Taylorism. Thankfully, I am not the first to call for the end of Taylorism or to write about human characteristics which businesses frequently ignore. There are many before me who have added significant insights into this debilitating management doctrine and all [...]
Category: Altered States Economy Human Behavior Management Strategic Planning Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Catalyst-NA, Innovation, Taylorism, Transformation, Value
by Mike Rollings | April 18, 2011 | 11 Comments
Over the last 239 years, organizations have been applying hierarchy, and top-down command-oriented management. This mindset erupted with the dawn of the steam engine in 1771, and in the late 1800s it was honed to razor sharpness by Frederick Winslow Taylor – the father of efficiency thinking and the science of productivity. Taylor’s work is [...]
Category: Altered States Economy Human Behavior Management Strategic Planning Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Empathy, Innovation, Insight, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | April 11, 2011 | Comments Off
This past Thursday my colleague Kirk Knoernschild pointed out a blog post by Alistair Cockburn about Taylorism creeping into the world of agile. Alistair’s post ignited a discussion within Gartner’s IT1 team reflecting on how it applied to our own agile work practices. What follows are some of my insights about the dangers of Tayloristic [...]
Category: Altered States Applications Cloud Economy Human Behavior IT Governance Management Strategic Planning Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Innovation, IT Delivery, Production Mindset, Transformation, Uncertainty, Value
by Mike Rollings | January 19, 2011 | 2 Comments
So many things in our life are governed by the idea that we can control the outcome. Take strategy as as an example. For years strategists have operated under the false notion that strategies were conceived, plans created and execution of the plan happened. This resulted in an elite view of conducting strategy and the [...]
Category: Altered States Economy Human Behavior Management Strategic Planning Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Economy, Empathy, Transformation, Uncertainty, Value
by Mike Rollings | October 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
I have several creative friends. Some are musicians, some photographers, one a playwright, and one friend in particular (Tim) is a performance artist. Tim’s art comes in many forms. He works with autistic children, he tends bar, he plays a manual typewriter and recites as part of jazz improvisation, and he creates sculpture with metal [...]
Category: Economy Human Behavior Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Empathy, Innovation, Transformation, Uncertainty
by Mike Rollings | August 9, 2010 | 4 Comments
A real return to prosperity and long-term growth will require a rebirth of business based on new rules for a new era. The interplay between social, cultural, and economic transformation accelerates the need for organizations to become agile, strategic, innovative, and effective. Yet organizations are doing little to develop collaboration, influence, perspective, integration, and relevance [...]
Category: Economy Human Behavior Management Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Economy, Insight
by Mike Rollings | May 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Today I read my colleague Jack Santos’ post "$10,000 a Gallon, but Your Mileage May Vary” and it made me think about the cost of convenience. Jack’s point is that yes, the price of ink is astronomical, but we are paying for convenience – and that’s probably something that won’t go away. Convenience is a [...]
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