by Guy Whitcroft | 11 Feb, 2021 | BusinessFitness, Leadership, Working From Home
Management By Wandering Around (MBWA), that HP innovation later popularised by Tom Peters, is under a new level of scrutiny today with our Working From Home environment. There are, of course, the detractors who believe it has always been too time-consuming, interrupts...
by Guy Whitcroft | 11 Dec, 2020 | BusinessFitness, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Working From Home
A fascinating study by a team at Australia’s RMIT University showed a clear correlation between work environment and productivity / concentration. Findings included: Office temperatures below 22.5C had a noticeably negative impact – especially as the day progressed....
by Guy | 21 May, 2013 | Business - General, Cities, Leadership, Productivity, Strategy, Technology, Working From Home
The first in this series of posts looked at how technology advances are enabling location independence for people at work, and the second looked at some of the socio-economic impacts of this move. In fact, the changes are potentially even more...
by Guy | 12 Apr, 2013 | Business - General, Cities, Economy, Lifestyle, Productivity, Strategy, Technology, Working From Home
The previous post showed how technology is enabling location independence for the workforce for the first time since the Industrial Revolution created the need for urbanisation. Smart devices, such as smartphones and powerful tablets, are providing people with...
by Guy | 5 Apr, 2013 | Business - General, Cities, Lifestyle, Productivity, Strategy, Technology, Working From Home
There’s a revolution under way that is gaining momentum, and yet doing so in a way that although we scarcely notice the changes from day-to-day, when we look back a few years we can see they’re enormous. This revolution is in the way we work and live. Ten years ago,...
by Guy | 10 Aug, 2011 | Business - General, Cities, Economy, Leadership, Lifestyle, Productivity, Technology, Working From Home
Many of you will have come across the various forms of the “Did You Know?” or “Shift Happens” slide shows over the past decade or so – there are several versions on YouTube, of course. Regardless of how accurate you believe the figures presented to be, the facts of...
