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| 'Luminous idea' by Tiago Daniel under a CC license |
But is the policy of allowing employee pet-projects worth it or is it just a (persistent but limited) hype?
Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 April 2015
Intrapreneurship: should organisations embrace the on-the-clock pet-project approach?
In a business, pet-projects are small-scale projects of individual employees, under their full personal control, carried out within the organisation, often using resources of the organisation.
Pet-projects have gained visibility through the successful practices of companies such as Google, HP, 3M, Genetech, IBM and others. There, employees have been given the flexibility - and have even been encouraged - to allocate a percentage of their normal working time between 15 and 20% to a personal project of theirs that may be (and usually is) different to and independent from their ongoing work tasks.
But is the policy of allowing employee pet-projects worth it or is it just a (persistent but limited) hype?
But is the policy of allowing employee pet-projects worth it or is it just a (persistent but limited) hype?
Sunday, 8 February 2015
One hundred posts
This is the 100th post I have prepared here.
OK, I' m cheating a bit. Two of my texts have not been published yet, so, actually, it is 98 published post plus 2 on hold. Nonetheless, I consider it a personal milestone.
What started, at the end of 2009, mainly as the result of my curiosity to see what keeping a blog is all about, has survived until today. It has even managed to become (a tiny) part of my routine. Despite all the distractions I come across when drafting posts, some of which are inherent to the process. Flickr, for instance, where I normally scout for suitable photos (under a Creative Commons license, of course) to put at the top of each post, where I easily get carried away looking at people's photos.
Despite the years that have gone by, this is still a project under development. Altogether, the blog is still not fully mature in terms of content, with topics ranging from... well... the is no actual "range". Rather, whatever topic happens to cross my mind and bug me enough to look it up and write a few words on it. Understandably, it is still rather low on active readers. Not too encouraging but, at the end of the day, there are zillions of other blogs, of which many are backed up by talented people who take blogging much more seriously than me.
At any rate, though, having this blog has proven to be a great experience so far, educational, self-motivational and - above all - fun.
Many thanks to all of you, who stop by here!
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| '05 Birthday' by Marie Coleman under a CC license |
OK, I' m cheating a bit. Two of my texts have not been published yet, so, actually, it is 98 published post plus 2 on hold. Nonetheless, I consider it a personal milestone.
What started, at the end of 2009, mainly as the result of my curiosity to see what keeping a blog is all about, has survived until today. It has even managed to become (a tiny) part of my routine. Despite all the distractions I come across when drafting posts, some of which are inherent to the process. Flickr, for instance, where I normally scout for suitable photos (under a Creative Commons license, of course) to put at the top of each post, where I easily get carried away looking at people's photos.
Despite the years that have gone by, this is still a project under development. Altogether, the blog is still not fully mature in terms of content, with topics ranging from... well... the is no actual "range". Rather, whatever topic happens to cross my mind and bug me enough to look it up and write a few words on it. Understandably, it is still rather low on active readers. Not too encouraging but, at the end of the day, there are zillions of other blogs, of which many are backed up by talented people who take blogging much more seriously than me.
At any rate, though, having this blog has proven to be a great experience so far, educational, self-motivational and - above all - fun.
Many thanks to all of you, who stop by here!
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