The author, Jason Burchardt is a Masters of Management student at Aquinas College. His role is to help explain the Matrix Organization structure for his employer, a global pharmaceutical. The challenge he found was an absence of cogent material (by way of visual aid or scholarship) to inform employees of this complex organizational theory. His [...]

The article highlights a feature of virtual teams; building trust among people with whom we’ve never met. In one instance, “Alice” ends up doing 50% of the heavy lifting all because she asked the question, “… is anyone out there?” What strikes me is the intentionality behind the inquiry. Absent this voice the team may [...]

Flawed Study Dismissing Job Bias Thrills Media By Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers WeNews commentators Tuesday, February 22, 2011 The media is having a heyday with a study that came out earlier this month finding that scientific women are stalled by their own lifestyle choices, not discrimination. Co-authors Roz Barnett and Caryl Rivers say [...]