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#WorkHacks – Get Some Hustle

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I have written about hustle before. Just as you need to get into the flow of ideas and networks, you need some hustle to strike when the opportunity arises. Hustle and flow is a great combination of attributes to possess – and is a basic tenet of the TMWK Manifesto. Hustle is a (much more) natural state of readiness for Millennials. According to a 2012 US Chamber of Commerce Foundation report, 27% of Millennials are self-employed, but a whopping 90% say entrepreneurship is a mindset, not an actual role. They expect to be treated like freelancers even as employees; 58% expect the standard workday … Continue reading #WorkHacks – Get Some Hustle

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Cool, Lean, Fast: Recipe For Organizational Seduction

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A cute little Technocrati article on how Yammer has made enterprise software ‘sexy’, no less. I am a confirmed fan of the platform, though I have never heard it called sexy before, even by nerd-ola “Yampions.” Still, of more interest was its recipe for success: cool, lean, fast. Yes. Of course, this speaks to software, start-ups, the next big thing. This is how technology ‘seduces,’ according to the article. But it also speaks to more broader disorganizational changes coming to the workplace. Enterprises in all industries need to embrace the concepts of cool, lean, fast – to survive in the … Continue reading Cool, Lean, Fast: Recipe For Organizational Seduction

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Redundancy And Repetition Are Good For You: Take 1 – How We Learn

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Some years ago, during an internal project to define and develop the company as a learning organization I came up with this definition: We learn to learn together, to get the results we want together (after Senge). Whereas the project sponsor wanted something tangible and process-led, I pushed back. Learning and understanding is co-created and evolved and iterated. It is in flux, it is a flow. I wish, at the time, I had heard of Harald Jarche. His work, amongst many others, has influenced my own in recent years and would have helped greatly wrangling that ‘learning organization’ project to … Continue reading Redundancy And Repetition Are Good For You: Take 1 – How We Learn

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Why I Follow So Few People On Twitter

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I could, if I wanted, have a few hundred / thousand twitter followers. I do not need to explain how to do that, it is a simple process of mathematics for most of us. It starts with following many. But I do not. And this is why: “You are my idea of a good writer because you have an unmannered style, and when I read what you write, I hear you talking.” – Isaac Asimov to Carl Sagan ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading Why I Follow So Few People On Twitter

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No More Jobs. Just Stints. It Stinks.

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When I grow up I want to be a futurist. That is the coolest job, ever. However, according to one such futurist, Glen Hiemstra (via this Fast Company webcast) and channeling Peter Drucker, such a job will not be available to me, it will be one stint* among many. No more jobs. Instead, a stint here, a stint there. Stints everywhere! But hold on! Stint as verb means: “Supply an ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something).” Hmmm. I smell something fishy in the world of work, and it isn’t stint frisch… *AKA ‘gig’ ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading No More Jobs. Just Stints. It Stinks.

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Group flow: How can teams experience “flow” together?

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In Hustle & Flow: An Undeniable Swag, I said: Flow (pt 1) is about noticing, it is about a feel, a touch for what is going on around you and what is going to happen next.   Barking Up The Wrong Tree has a brilliant summary <Group flow: How can teams experience “flow” together> of how to get flow in teams. With each point made,  I could recall a project I had worked on, often with my team, where we had it, we were in the flow. Nothing’s gonna stop us now. ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading Group flow: How can teams experience “flow” together?

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Flow Creates Labour – Beats Work

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Back-to-back-to-back dissections of @brainpickings brilliance, and more on the topic of “work”, and how to make it better, or something different altogether. Yesterday, vocation. Today, labour (UK spelling). In her review of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi‘s book Flow:  The Psychology of Optimal Experience: “[He] has a term for the quality that sets labor apart from work: flow — a kind of intense focus and crisp sense of clarity where you forget yourself, lose track of time, and feel like you’re part of something larger. If you’ve ever pulled an all-nighter for a pet project, or even spent 20 consecutive hours composing a love letter, you’ve experienced … Continue reading Flow Creates Labour – Beats Work

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Vocal About Vocation

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Another stellar review from @brainpickings about something close to the TMWK heart: Fulfilling Work. Such a concept is heavy at the heart of our approach to personal branding. If we can describe to others how we manifest our genius – who we are, the skills we offer – they can better help us in the direction of our vocation. As relayed by @brainpickings: Roman Krznaric, author of How to Find Fulfilling Work says; “a vocation is not something we find, it’s something we grow — and grow into.” He further defines vocation as “a career that not only gives you fulfillment — meaning, … Continue reading Vocal About Vocation

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Hustle and Flow: Pt 3 (An Undeniable Swag)

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In the 2006 film Hustle and Flow, Craig Brewer managed to make the main character sympathetic enough to the audience <”It’s hard out here for a pimp,”  (apparently)> for Terence Howard to be nominated for an Oscar for his role. Undoubtedly, Howard had it: hustle and flow. The urban dictionary defines is as such: “A combination of the terms “hustle” and “flow” that, when possessed and fused correctly, creates a distinct, undeniable swag. One needs hustle in order to flow, however too much hustle can really cramp the style of the flow. But a flow without hustle reaps no reward. One … Continue reading Hustle and Flow: Pt 3 (An Undeniable Swag)