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Can Entrepreneurs Save Newspapers? Even in Chicago?
“Can Entrepreneurs Save Newspapers?” Dunno. But you might. Newspapers are dying. Which means that it’s a great time for a hidden high potential to get into the News business with a completely different model. Crains Chicago has video on some new ideas coming out in town (that’s Chicago) to solve the newspaper problem. Both the Tribune and Sun-Times parent companies …
Elliott Jaques on the Problems of Church Organization
Many of the work-levels people have worked with churches on their organizational issues. This includes the Church of England and the Illinois association of American Baptist churches. (Anyone know of more?) Let’s take a look at what some of them have said. Elliott Jaques, who coined the term “mid-life crisis” and was an accomplished psychoanalyst in addition to be a …
Different Worlds: My Experiences with AT&T/RIM vs. Apple
Recently, I had two problems come up. Neither of them are really horrifying but the experiences that I had show why Apple dominates the markets for consumer-oriented electronics, and why RIM’s Blackberry, Obamania aside, is declining. I should start out with a confession: I’ve been a systems administrator at a variety of levels on several network OSes, including Solaris, HP-UX, …
Should I Move To a Creative Class City?
The Str4 artist at work: Little Birds. © 2008 Dawn Wheat. Used by permission. Part of Richard Florida’s “Creative Class” theory is that the world has become “spikey”: certain cities draw almost all the top talent in the world, leaving everyone else to languish. (He who has will be given more; for he who has not, even what he has …
Get a Creative Class Job Through Manipulating Your Images, Part 2
They don’t know how to judge Creative Class performance so you have to dress like them. Manipulate your presentation of self and get the job.
Each Level of Work Has Its Own Key Value (Jack Fallow)
Jack Fallow had an excellent article in the recent GO Society book, Organization Design, Levels of Work and Human Capability: Executive Guide (“On Being Heard: Insights from complexity theory and values as touchstones for effective executive communication across the levels”). In it, Jack talks about the values that followers seem to expect from a leader who is supposed to be …
Creative Class Job Interview? Go with Stuff White People Like!
A client asks the question: What should I do to win an executive level interview? So let’s look at how to manipulate the forms that are expected by today’s uninformed managers. (I’d say “idiot” but there are too many lawsuits these days.) I’ll assume that you’re a heterosexual American guy who wants a job as part of Richard Florida’s Creative …
IQ and Success: What’s the Real Interaction?
Malcolm Gladwell reports that “the correlation between I.Q. and occupational success is between 0.2 and 0.3.” That’s more than no correlation at all but much less than we often think. (It also isn’t entirely accurate.) But it seems somewhat counterintuitive. Elliott Jaques has an answer. I’m betting that one’s current capacity of work (your level or work that gets measured …