The Future of Work is Now In some ways, it’s a little misleading to talk about the future of work. Discussing “the future” of anything makes it feel as though the topic at hand is somewhere to be found in the distant future. Often times, this is not the case. Earlier this year, the Irish Times published a piece on the fut...
How Employers and Jobseekers Alike Can Extract Every Bit of Value From LinkedIn Remember when bell bottom jeans were all the rage? Or when going to a rave was the height of hedonistic indulgence? Or when Friends aired for the first time? All three of these things are distant m...
Why Leaving Millennials Alone is a Smart Marketing Strategy What we’re referring to here, of course, is the term “Millennials”. The people making up this cohort, generally considered to have been born between 1981 - 1996, are actually very nice. Yes, really...
Leaders Are About People, Managers Are About Things The idea of a leader carries with it a sense of magnificence, of charisma, of inherent strength. One might say that someone “is a born leader”. We imagine great men like Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Alexander (indeed) the Great. (Even though, it has to be said, some of their actions left a lot to be d...
Business is from Mars, IT is from Venus. Is that really still the case? The battleground of IT vs Business seems to be reaching a reluctant truce. For years, these two areas saw themselves as separate entities with their own agendas, at loggerheads and trying to convince the other that theirs was the right agenda. In the cool light of day, you'll hear conversations i...
