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The (not far) Away Day (part 2)
by @paulcarder (with contributions from @therealsulim)
If you have read the story so far, in Part 1, three managers met at the bar of a corporate training centre. Frankie (from HR), Sam…
The (not far) Away Day (part 1)
by @paulcarder
Three managers walk into the bar . They all have gender-neutral names, so I'll leave you to work out whether they may be male or female. Not that it matters in this context.…
Is Facilities Management Strategic?
Is Facilities Management Strategic? What does it mean to be a strategic business resource?
Those questions are crucial to the future of the Facilities Management (FM) profession.
Please …
HR > Finance > CRE > FM
by @paulcarder
This is a simple post. It is intended to cause a good-natured argument amongst professionals.
I'm more interested in how things are achieved, by whom, than perhaps by…
Evidence-based Facilities Management? an example: knowledge worker productivity
by @paulcarder (References at footer)
You are probably quite familiar with the term "evidence-based design" (or EBD) as a corporate real estate, FM or workplace professional. In fact, there…
Face up to it: remote-work is simply not, if you have trust
by @paulcarder
A thought for the Easter weekend. You may be going away for a few days - have a great time! I'm staying on a small-holding on Dartmoor Devon, UK, with my youngest daughter,…
Try the 4-4-2 fortnight
by @paulcarder
This has nothing to do with football (soccer). That's lost a few people who found this via Google search!
I have mentioned this a few times in presentations and various…
A sojourn into biology, rewards, and place
by @paulcarder
For the time-poor, here: The memory of the great place where you went, replays (fast) whilst you sleep, and is stimulating the memory of what you learned. So avoid crap…
Towards the Corporate Placemaker in 2016
by @paulcarder
I have been studying and thinking about this concept of the Corporate Placemaker for some time now. I trace it back to our work on Raising The Bar, a global study for the…
A huge coworking hub in middle-America
The marketing blurb for Timothy Sprinkle's 2015 book, "Screw the Valley", says:
The most exciting high-tech startups are escaping the expensive and inbred environment of Silicon Valley.…