Entries Tagged 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 | November 21, 2011 | Comments Off
The “i” generation – not quite the selfish focused gang that was recently called out in the UK by its Chief Rabbi and noted by c|net’s Chris Matyszczyk. Like prior generational movements, this one too is misunderstood. The “i” generation is about the importance of the individual which is profoundly different than focusing selfishly on [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Economy, Empathy, Innovation, Insight, Steve Jobs, Taylorism, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | July 18, 2011 | Comments Off
All organizations at some time in their history have experimented, gained knowledge, and operationalized it – experimentation is synonymous with entrepreneurialism. Entrepreneurs test many theories as they launch an idea. They are not afraid of making errors and learning from their mistakes. As they refine ideas and gain more knowledge through experimentation, they eventually reach [...]
Category: Altered States Contextual Strategist Human Behavior Management Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Business outcome mindset, Economy, Empathy, Innovation, Insight, 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 | 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 | July 8, 2010 | Comments Off
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules… which are repeated without end. Benoit Mandelbrot I picked up this quote from a recent TED.com presentation by Benoit Mandelbrot. Mandelbrot, of course, is the father of fractal geometry. He used this statement to illustrate that the amazing variety within nature is an expression of a very simple building [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Economy, Insight, Transformation
