job crafting

Is Gamification a Cure for Entitlement?

October 19, 2011

Tweet What value is all this talk about gamification? It’s one thing to deploy game-design tactics to turn your for-profit services (like Foursquare or Hashable) into games. By playing games, folks actually will train themselves to use these products. More troubling to me is the idea of using gamification to redesign work tasks. Gamification and […]

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How Job Crafting Can Get You Closer to Authentic Work

December 8, 2009

Tweet One of my favorite “authenticity tools”,  Job Crafting, has been featured in a Time Magazine article. I’m excited to see some popular discussion of Job Crafting, because it is one of the easiest and most direct ways of making your work fit who you are. Job crafting is the practice of (re-)shaping the job that you are expected to […]

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A Job Crafting Example: The Pink Glove Dance

December 8, 2009

Tweet Here’s a real life example of Job Crafting: The Pink Glove Dance. You may already have seen this video of The Pink Glove Dance, which was created by hospital staffers to raise awareness about breast cancer. I know that as soon as the music started, I thought it would be just like that now-famous […]

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