Want to start a flurry on the internet? Wade into the always fraught discussion about how women should balance work and family commitments. Any piece on the topic is bound to spark a raging debate as Princeton professor and Obama administration official Anne-Marie Slaughter recently confirmed with her Atlantic article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have […]

Among the primary selling points of enterprise social tools is their ability to prick the executive bubble and allow business leaders to get at the perhaps less than beautiful truth about what’s actually going on at lower levels of their organizations. By facilitating information sharing across organizational divides and hierarchical levels, this argument goes, social […]

Project management today is much different than it used to be, and three common issues often arise in the workplace now: complexity, linear working and poor project management. Avoiding these pitfalls leads to smoother processes, more-productive workers and, ultimately, better business practices. This piece analyzes how new tools and project management software are creating the […]

You have probably heard about the rise of the independent worker and the impact of this trend on career trajectories and business practices. But perhaps your team is still entirely made up of traditional employees, so while the shift towards gig-based careers is something every business person needs to keep an eye on, it doesn’t […]

Call it the gig economy, Generation Flux or Freelance Nation, but whatever you term the rise in independent workers piecing together careers out of multiple projects and employers, the consensus is that an increase in the number of independent pros is a key part of the future of work. That’s shaping not only the career […]

So your company is trying to be more social, leveraging new ways of communicating to break down barriers to collaboration and information sharing. Great, but what role does HR play in that process? That’s what David Kiron of the MIT Management Review recently asked Jeff Schick, the vice president of social software at IBM, in […]

If smarter, cheaper computers can take care of more and more routine tasks going forward, then the future of work is all about those most human of capabilities – caring interaction and creativity. And necessarily workspaces will need to be built to foster exactly those ideals, rather than routine, standardization and efficiency, the watchwords of […]

Microsoft’s reported $1 billion deal to buy Yammer isn’t done yet, but the move — despite what many see as a too-hefty price tag — could make sense. Yammer has big name recognition in the burgeoning field of enterprise social networking — its product lets colleagues chat about projects and share tips in a business-defined context. […]

Box CEO Aaron Levie A few months ago, Bill Gurley wrote a post about Benchmark’s investment in Dropbox, and why Dropbox’s cloud-based file synchronization is a major disruptor. Many disagreed, quoting Steve Jobs’ assertion that file sync is a feature, not a product. As a feature, the assumption was that it would be folded into […]

“I’m an iMac.” “And I’m a ChromeBook.” “What do you say we hook up?” It’s not a big secret that iMacs are a great desktop investment. Not only are they powerful all-in-one Macs with beautiful integrated displays, but since 2009, they can be used as monitors for other devices. (Hint: Command + F2 enables and […]