Some fascinating research from MIT Sloan today; Understanding productivity in the Information Age. The project consisted of analysing data from emails on a single company’s network: As part of a study of an executive recruiting firm conducted over a five-year period, the researchers were able to analyze ten months of the firm’s e-mail traffic. While […]
The New Productivity
January 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Categories: management · network
Tags: communication, management, mit sloan, research
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense
January 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense
I’ve just finished Robert Sutton and Jeffrey Pfeffer‘s Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense. A problem I have with a lot of business books is that they are generally so larded with the message it is okay to be you! that much of the rest is lost. As I’m a data analyst, I was […]
Categories: book · management
Tags: analysis, bob sutton, book review, jeffrey pfeffer, leadership, management