Want to reinvent management? Start with the managers.

by Chris Grams on August 30, 2010

Maybe some day we’ll look back on the role of the manager in our organizations and laugh.

Such a quaint trend. Kind of like having The Clapper in every room of your house, or wearing multiple Swatch watches, or working out to Richard Simmons videos. Each seemed really helpful at the time, but looking back, we kind of wonder what the heck we were thinking.

OK, I’m exaggerating. After all, the manager/employee trend has been going strong for 100 years or more. But are we seeing enormous changes in the role of managers on the horizon? Signs point to yes.

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Reflections on Matthew Szulik and closing the ‘executive gap’

by David Burney August 27, 2010

Almost exactly two years ago I left Red Hat to start what would become New Kind. I’d been there for four and a half years. It was wonderful and challenging; one of the great adventures of my life.
There are several reasons it was so rewarding:
+ I was working on meaningful work. We were proving that [...]

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New Public Spaces 2: Practical Design Guidelines

by Art Seavey August 26, 2010

Last post, I discussed how governments, especially state and local, should be thinking differently about the ways they engage online with the people they serve.

A quick recap: governments have a relatively indefinite shelf-life; they have powers and likewise responsibilities that come along with being a monopoly; and given people live within and travel across multiple [...]

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