Director of Strategic Organizational Initiatives at San Francisco State University, College of Business
Hackathon Public Profile
2 years 8 months ago
Aaron Anderson
commented on Adopt a federated structure rather than the existing monolithic structure.
Silly me, I responded to your comment on my hack before reading through this particular hack. Seems like you are onto something. Inverting the pyramid to allow your customers to drive the most import... More
2 years 8 months ago
Aaron Anderson
commented on Don't be a fiscal hog: Give every one a healthy slice of the budgetary pie
Thanks for the comment Graham. I've added some more detail to the hack. See if you think it harmonizes (or not) with your sentiment. I think you may be onto something with the federated structure, wh... More
2 years 8 months ago
2 years 8 months ago
Aaron Anderson
posted Follow the Professor: Smash your time clock and allow your people the freedom to set their own schedule
2 years 10 months ago
Aaron Anderson
commented on Follow the model of the Professor: Smash your time clock and allow your people the freedom to set their own schedule
Thanks for the comment. Perhaps it is less about position descriptions more than clearly defining the tasks needed to make the operation work. Never mind who should be specified to accomplish the goa... More
2 years 10 months ago
Instead of hording control of your budget, allow every employee to have discretionary control (and thereby responsibility) for a slice of the pie. The one area that is the scourge or bane of creativi... More
2 years 10 months ago
Aaron Anderson
posted Follow the model of the Professor: Smash your time clock and allow your people the freedom to set their own schedule
An employee is only as autonomous as s/he feels s/he has complete control over her/his own schedule. Instead of bounding work by fixed time schedules (unless required by routinized work, which most m... More
2 years 10 months ago
Aaron Anderson
posted Allow all employees to post solutions publicly, for the entire organization to see and apply (with out regard for rank or titles)
Allow ideas to be posted for all, and those most applicable to rise to the top, like sweet cream in the corporate milk. Rate those public solutions by whether or not they actually worked. Then publi... More
2 years 10 months ago
Can I keep my quote? I like a good quote in a signature line, and change mine periodically. I like to see what others feel important to add in their signature lines as a "tell," as it were, giving a ... More
3 years 1 month ago
Aaron Anderson
commented on Working in Plain View: Using a wiki & social media to broadcast as you work
Eugene,
FYI, made one more final pass through to edit the story and fill in some gaps, as suggested by the MIX team. Hopefully this is about as done as I can make it and good enough to help others... More
3 years 2 months ago
Aaron Anderson
commented on Working in Plain View: Using a wiki & social media to broadcast as you work
Eugene,
Just made my major update to the post. You can find the bulk of it in the "lessons" category. Very much interested in what you think about them.
Cheers More
3 years 2 months ago
Aaron Anderson
commented on Ten Steps to Freedom (at Work): Announcing the Finalists of the Digital Freedom Challenge
Likewise, thank you for selecting my story as a finalist as well. I'm privileged to be in such good company. Congratulations to the others. Oh, and I'm about to update my story with lessons from bei... More
3 years 4 months ago
Aaron Anderson
commented on Liquid organizations: building the next evolutionary stage of anti-fragility.
It's going to be substantially easier to infuse a liquid organizational structure from the outset of the formation of any new company. The difficulty rests with those old Millennium orgs that stick to... More
3 years 4 months ago
3 years 4 months ago
Aaron Anderson
commented on Liquid organizations: building the next evolutionary stage of anti-fragility.
I like this idea. It speaks to me on many levels. You are really challenging the culture of the industrial mindset, but there's also a number of legal barriers - the way we structure corporations - th... More
3 years 4 months ago
Funny, because I cross posted this article to the Higher Education LinkedIn group, I'm getting comments over there as well. I just responded to a person over there the following that I think addresses... More
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