In The Press Archives - Making Meetings Matter

David Coleman reviews “Making Meetings Matter”

March 21, 2016/in Corporate Conversations, In The Press, Leadership, Leading Change, Making Meetings Matter

David Coleman, the founder and executive director of Collaborative Strategies, Inc., has just published a highly complimentary review of Making Meetings Matter. It appears on CMSWire.

Here is a brief excerpt:

Collaboration and telecommunications company Fuze correlated data that shows “15 percent of an organization’s time is spent in meeting.” A Bain report echoed these findings. On average, 11 million meetings took place in the US every day in 2015.

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Five Reasons There are so Many Bad Meetings

February 22, 2016/in Corporate Conversations, In The Press, Leadership, Leading Change, Making Meetings Matter, Newsletter Archive, The Future of Work, Work Design

Note: This article is a brief excerpt from Chapter Two of my new book, Making Meetings Matter: How Smart Leaders Orchestrate Powerful Conversations in the Digital Age (link is to the book’s page on Amazon.com).

There don’t seem to be any definitive statistics about how many meetings are held every day, but the estimates I have seen (and recalculated for myself) suggest that there are somewhere between eleven and twenty-four million corporate meetings a day in the United States alone. Even though that is a wide range, I am confident that there at least four billion meetings a year here in the U.S.!

However, as I am fond of saying, no one I know is dying for that next meeting to start. Read more

Andy Curry of Business Innovators Radio Interviews Jim Ware

September 23, 2015/in Distributed Work, Events, In The Press, Leadership, Making Meetings Matter, People and Organizations, The Future of Work

Jim Ware was featured in a Business Innovators Radio interview by host Andrew Curry, published on September 22, 2015.

Our 17-minute conversation about flexible work, managing remote workers, and leading effective meetings is available at this link:

Business Innovators Radio – Interview with James Ware – Professional Speaker.

We welcome your comments, reactions, and further questions. [continue reading...]

“Strength in Numbers” Published by Huffington Post

July 2, 2015/in In The Press, Leadership, People and Organizations

My latest article on collaborative leadership, “Strength in Numbers: Growing Power by Sharing It,” was just published by The Huffington Post. It has received very positive reviews from a number of people whose judgment I deeply respect. [continue reading...]

An Interview with an “expert” on the future of work (that would be me)

May 17, 2015/1 Comment/in Corporate Conversations, In The Press, Leading Change, People and Organizations, Strategic Planning, The Future of Work, Trends and Predictions, Work Design

I was recently interviewed by Social-Hire as part of their Expert Interview program. It was a wide-ranging conversation about the changing nature of the workforce, the need for a radically new kind of organizational leadership, and how to attract and retain talent in this age of networked knowledge that we’ve created.

Here is a brief excerpt that reflects my perspective on why so many of us are frustrated and discouraged about our work experiences: Read more

Don’t Fix Management; Replace It

September 7, 2014/2 Comments/in In The Press, Leading Change, People and Organizations, The Future of Work, Trends and Predictions, Work Design

That’s the title of my article that was just published on Huffington Post – my first submission and first acceptance.

I’m very proud of that accomplishment, but what matters is that you read my analysis of why management is so broken, and what we should be doing to replace it.

Here’s the link to the post: Don’t Fix Management; Replace It. [continue reading...]

Jim Ware interviewed by Turi Ryder on the Yahoo! telecommuting kerfuffle

March 5, 2013/in In The Press, Work Design, Workplace

On Tuesday evening, February 26, 2013, Jim Ware was invited to speak with talk radio host Turi Ryder (WGN 720 radio in Chicago, Illinois) to discuss his perspectives on the mandate issued by Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, that all Yahoo! employees would be required to come into the corporate offices every day rather than working from home.

That edict has clearly been highly controversial; it has generated an unusual, and unexpected, amount of press commentary. [continue reading...]

White Paper: “Enhancing Employee Productivity and Quality of Life with Big Data”

February 1, 2013/in In The Press, Leadership, New Technologies, People and Organizations, Places and Spaces, Trends and Predictions

click here to download a pdf version of the full report]

Organizations today have an unprecedented ability to capture data about both their facilities and their workforce’s activities. However, while FM professionals hear a great deal about smart buildings and how Big Data supports facilities management, there seems to be far less attention being paid to smart behaviors and almost nothing to smart management. [continue reading...]

Great Story About Distributed Work in the Financial Times

February 29, 2012/in Distributed Work, In The Press, Success Stories

I was thrilled today to discover that Maija Palmer’s latest article about the “new world of work” in The Financial Times actually uses me as a case study.

You can read the story (“So Near and Yet So Far“) online at this link:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/57387a98-58d6-11e1-b9c6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1nnLTUqqX

(free registration is required to access the article)

The story is actually about the new venture I’m working on with partners Paul Carder (based in the UK) and Marcus Bowen (in Hong Kong).

“Staffing Industry Review” Quotes Jim Ware

February 1, 2012/in Collaborative Technologies, In The Press, People and Organizations

“Short-Term Growth, Long-Term Hiccups“

Staffing Industry Review

January 2012

by Leslie Stevens-Huffman

This article about employers’ growing reliance on contingent, or contract workers, included the following quote from Jim Ware:

“The migration of applications to the cloud and the growth of information-based jobs make it easy for contractors to telecommute,” says Jim Ware, executive director of The Future of Work Unlimited, based in Berkeley, Calif.

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