organizations

HR (Human Resource) management is an often-underestimated task in work-environments. However, it is adequate and conscientious HR management that will establish and retain a qualified, well-cooperating workforce and therefore, ultimately, an increase of organizational growth, efficiency, and profitability.

Today, Identify Software announced that its AppSight Black Box software, can help organizations mitigate the risk of migrating their applications to Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, so they can reap the security benefits of this important upgrade much faster, by significantly accelerating the testing and rollout process.

All of us join professional organizations for a reason--a friend belongs, we need to for credibility, etc. Many times we let years slide by and we don't stop and review those reasons. Unless something sets off a boundary--lack of funds, the organization runs itself into a ditch, or a leadership problem.

Recently, while providing an up-and-coming Virtual Assistant (VA) with some startup information, she asked me a very interesting question, "Why do you and other VA's join organizations?"

Recently, while providing an up-and-coming Virtual Assistant (VA) with some startup information, she asked me a very interesting question, "Why do you and other VA's join organizations?"

The right time to create a fact sheet is any time you need to spoon-feed a reporter on a complex subject. Reporters don't mind thinking, they just don't want to think too hard. They simply don't have the time. They are writing history in a hurry. The accent is on "hurry."

Creating a peer-based organization does not mean you do away with management positions or management structure, work still needs to be managed. However, the governing, leadership choices in the four key decision-making areas of strategy, tactics, operations, and functional departments will be made, not by the self-similar elites, but by councils of peers drawn from every level and function. Indeed, today a higher consciousness is emerging in organizational thought that rejects rank as the chief way of organizing relationships. It is arising on the periphery, which has been the pattern for all evolutionary progress. Peer-based organizations will be successful and out compete traditional rank-based, hierarchic companies because individuals behave more responsibly, more intelligently, more strategically, and more cooperatively, than the same individuals would in traditional rank-based organizations.