Dr. Janel Anderson is the founder of Working Conversations, an organization dedicated to helping individuals and organizations create five star experiences through intentional interactions with one another. These days, many more of those interactions are online. An expert in the virtual space ahead of her time, she wrote her dissertation on virtual team collaboration nearly 20 years ago.
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Loved Janel’s perspective, Nick! I’ve always thought of offices as interruption factories, where most of the work (to quote Dave Barry) involves keeping the blame balloon afloat.
Janel sees us moving back to the time when the cobbler’s family lived on the floor above his shop and the kids grew up in the business. How can that be a bad thing?
It reminds me of what PJ Jonas has pulled off with her family (you can learn more at https://pjjonas.com/) — which sounds exhausting but is actually dreamy. It isn’t one or the other, I guess. :)
Thanks so much for your comment and the link, Maureen. I’m glad you’re finding these short conversations valuable. From one who has conducted so many wonderful conversations over the years, that means a great deal.