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Stop treating your remote contributors as second-class citizens
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If you work in a multinational corporation like mine, you regularly work with people who don’t live in your area. If you’re a contractor or self-employed, this will be even more familiar. You’ll see them on mailing lists and dialed in to meetings from time to time. We might not realize it, but [...]
Context switch: Mailblogging via Posterous for a while
I have been quiet on the enterprise collaboration front for the past few weeks. Lately I’ve been brushing up on public-facing web app development using PHP (and sometimes Ruby/Rails).
I’ve been blogging in quick spurts about the sort of tasks I’m putting myself through over on my Posterous mailblog.
Recent topics on the mailblog:
Test driving Munin [...]
Do your employee incentives encourage productive behavior?
Reward programs gone horribly wrong
I think we’ve all seen examples of reward systems leading to counterproductive behavior. My favorite example is working for a fast food joint when I was in college and having a “seventy second drive-through time” contest. Our goal was to keep the average time between customers leaving the drive-through menu (presumably [...]
