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• Monday, March 02, 2009 12:45 PM

  Managing the Blended Workplace

  My friend, colleague and co-author Dan Rasmus has a new piece in Strategy + Business called "Keeping up with Workforce 2020." In it, Dan looks at some of the major themes of the coming decade that managers should keep in mind, including moves toward the Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Millennials, management, productivity

• Sunday, October 12, 2008 8:11 PM

  Generational Battlelines: The KM/SM War

  A few weeks ago, my pal Venkatesh Rao, who usually blogs at Ribbon Farm , wrote a terrific piece over at Enterprise 2.0 Blog discussing the growing disconnect between the traditional Knowledge Management (KM) approach and the insurgent Social Media (SM) Read More... Posted by Rob | 6 Comments Filed under: IT, management, collaboration and social computing, productivity

• Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:54 PM

  Next Generation Workforce

  Mike Gotta moderated our next generation workforce panel this morning, where I participated alongside Scott Smith from IBM Global Services and Patti Anklam, a writer and consultant on social networking. Here are a couple of key take-aways from the discussion: Read More... Posted by admin | 2 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, management, collaboration and social computing

• Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:10 PM

  Millennials and the End of Process

  Last week, my colleague Dan Rasmus and I co-keynoted the Business Process Management conference in Orlando. Our talk was titled "Millennials and the End of Process," and talked about how the characteristics and technology affinities of the current generation Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: management

• Monday, May 12, 2008 6:46 AM

  On the Road

  Travelling this week on some book-related business. First stop is the ACORD LOMA conference in Las Vegas, where I will be talking about a new study on Millennials, technology and the scramble for young talent in the insurance industry, commissioned by Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: futurism, management, meta

• Monday, April 28, 2008 7:47 AM

  Five Ways to Be an Ambassador of Digital Culture in the Workplace

  ( crossposted at the excellent career guidance site Brazen Careerist ) The terms "tech-savvy" and "Millennial" seem joined at the hip, like "hopeless romantic" or "out-of-control pop diva." Of course, many romantics are nothing if not hopeful, some pop Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: Millennials, management, workforce development

• Monday, March 17, 2008 5:55 AM

  Generational Management Tips for Small Business

  I just did my first radio interview for Generation Blend, on the Small Business Advocate show with Jim Blasingame (link to be posted as soon as I get it). Jim is a great interviewer and did his best to drag the story out of me, but as much as I tried Read More... Posted by Rob | 2 Comments Filed under: management, small business

• Monday, February 11, 2008 9:24 AM

  Plotting the Future of the Workforce

  Although it's important to get people of all ages on the same page with technology in today's workforce, the issue becomes really important over the next 10 years. Right now, organizational leadership roles that correlate to experience and seniority are Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, Boomers, Generation X-ecutive, futurism, Millennials, management