Company culture

When Jennifer Mack went to hear a presentation by Rolls-Royce leaders at the University of Bath several months ago, one of her fellow business students asked, "What does it take to succeed at the company?"

The immediate answer: "Testosterone! Testosterone! Testosterone!"

In some ways, the students were lucky: They got an honest answer. The female students knew not to bother applying; the guys knew what kind of culture they'd encounter if they did.

The article expands on the subject of corporate culture and in the end on one single indicator: STAFF TURNOVER. How right Margaret Heffernan is in saying this and how little have the big corporates seem to understood this.

Referring to this article Edna Pasher asks whether innovation is tied to happiness at the work place...

My guess is that it is...

One global desktop for lawyers ?

Bruce MacEwen writes in his blog about the unlikely chances of one global desktop for fee earners:

When it comes to new applications, the problems he identified are:

"None of these applications:
(a) communicate with each other [certainly not out of the box];
(b) look or feel like each other; nor are they
(c) are intuitive enough to learn that a lawyer, who won't sacrifice a billable hour for a training session, actually has a chance of figuring them out."

So I guess if Knowledge Management then comes in with even one more application, we gotta be really good to get people to use it.