August 22, 2007 – 4:30 pm
What is the critical ingredient in the performance of virtual teams? It’s not communication; it’s trust. Trust mediates the relationship between communication and performance. In the absence of trust, more communication will not help your virtual team function better. Here’s a PowerPoint describing some of the relevant research.
Why is trust so important to the functioning […]
August 15, 2007 – 8:15 am
Today I’m thinking about this excerpt from Frances Mayes’ Bella Tuscany:
I feel as well a growing distrust of spending too much of one’s life deifying work. Finding that running balance among ambition, solitude, stimulation, adventure — how to do this? …
The last few years have pulled me too much in the exterior direction. After devoting […]
August 13, 2007 – 6:22 pm
It’s almost September: school supplies, fall clothes, old friends, class schedules. I love the motion after summer’s pause. I love the thrill of new projects and the renewed energy for old ones. I love the return to making work seriously fun instead of taking vacations that are seriously fun.
In celebration, I bought a notebook today. […]
Everyone suffers from burnout at some time or another. You know what it feels like: everything irritates you; everyone bothers you; every task requires too much energy. You can’t imagine ever feeling motivated by your work again. What do you do? Here are a few ideas… though they didn’t totally work for me. I greeted […]
I don’t subscribe to the “define your niche and then stick with it” school of blogging. That works great for some blogs and some bloggers and not so well for others. If you hesitate over blogging because you think you must stick to a niche and work it to the tune of 500,000 pageviews a […]
Despite the alarming headline on this morning’s Wall Street Journal article Instant Messaging Invades the Office, it’s actually overall positive about how instant messaging changes workplace communications. Looks to me like print media journalists are starting to understand that access to a lot of information and to our colleagues is not a bad thing — […]
Are you confident? If you’re like me, you’re confident about some tasks and goals, and not so confident about others. I’m a confident blogger but a not-so-confident book author. I’m a confident hiker, but I didn’t feel so confident last week on vacation in Rocky Mountain National Park when we confronted some really slippery and […]
New name, new theme, new plans for blogging:
Eliminated the daily del.icio.us links posting because I want to focus on writing full articles again. You can follow my del.icio.us links using the RSS feed.
Using a minimalist theme that I developed based on Sandbox to put the emphasis on the content and ideas rather than any fancy […]
To inspire and motivate myself as I prepare to write a book this summer, I reread some of William Zinsser’s On Writing Well. I’ve pulled out ten of my favorite quotes to share with you:
“Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she […]
I’m thisclose to signing a book contract with Wiley to write a book on web workerhood under the brand of Web Worker Daily and we had some back and forth over the non-compete clause. While I understand why publishers would include a non-compete clause, I don’t think that authors should accept anything more than the […]
