You Think Office Work is Different? You Are Right.

  • Posted by Don Kieffer
  • On June 17, 2017
Reading Dilbert or watching “The Office” or “Silicon Valley,” humor based in the reality of today’s office work, confirms that even if knowledge work is supposed to feel like a well-oiled machine, it rarely does.  Intellectual work is filled with piles of email, random meetings, highly variable activity, complex collaboration across many functions and performance […]
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The Arts and The Art of Dynamic Work Design

  • Posted by Don Kieffer
  • On October 25, 2016
My brother-in-law, Nick Rabkin, is pretty accomplished. He’s run a small theater in Chicago, directed millions of dollars to the arts as a Senior Program Officer at the MacArthur foundation, written brilliantly about arts education, and worked hard to build appreciation for the arts as an essential part of the way we learn and live. […]
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