Sometime ago, the Media Lab at MIT worked on something called the Jerk-O-Meter app. No, it was not something to alert American tourists talking too loudly, or to set off an electric alarm when someone’s smoking a cigar in an elevator . No, too bad, nothing like that. Rather the J-O-M was to listen in…
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Team Robots and Thong Thursday
Democracy in the workplace has long been a theme in my research, teaching and writing, and for that matter, in my style of leadership. Typing Democratic Workplace in the search page for the blog’s archive, will get you to several mentions of the topic. Many workplaces, we are told daily, are incorporating AI Robots, or…
More than a Game, Really!*
Teamwork rituals from the basketball team to the work team which are discussed below: Sportsmanship, win or lose. Free throws/penalty shots. Subbing out. Circling up. Helping hands, Communication-Talking and Information hoarding. I understand there are readers whose least favorite class was PE (gym) and who cringe at any linking of sports to the workplace. Bear…


