Task not time

At Best Buys headquarters more than 60% of the 4000 employees are now judged only on tasks or results.

We can define a better model of how to define work. Think task not time

• Articulate the results you expect - and tie accountability to getting jobs done
• Make physical attendance in office, including at meetings, optional.
• Gauge performance on the quality of work performed
• Help managers and employees learn to measure dedication in ways other than face time.
• Use today's networking capabilities to allow employees to work from anywhere
• Support the changes by creating drop in centers, team spaces and open work areas

Shift your definition of work from a place your employees go for a specified period to some thing they do - any time, anywhere. Task not time - a model dominated employment until a century ago - is a powerful way to draw in the newest crop of workers.

---- Harvard Business Review - Feb 2008 ( Page 13)

Putting soul into science

Hi Friends

I would like to share some part of a beautiful book - "Plant Spirit Shamanism" by Ross Heaven and Howard G Charing, I am reading now a days .

Putting Soul into Science

"What I see in Nature in maginificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely relegious feeling. "

Albert Einstein

In our cultural imagination and general view of the worls, we are still part of an archaic science based on measurement as the determining factor for how we should live: as masters of nature and separate from it. Modern scientists, however now believe the very opposite of this archaic view that still permeats our culture. They have broken ranks with old science and returned to old ways, where the world is not just material but "soul filled", alive, intelligent and aware. The circle is almost complete as serpent turns to eat its tail.

The current scintific model is quantum theory, which opens up a curious universe indeed - one in which nothing can actually be measured, since the very action of doing so changes its nature, and the observer becomes the observed. In this universe, matter is made of particles and waves at one and the same time. To observe them, however, they can never be both. To measure ( or even perceive) something, we must arrest the wave in space and time so that it becomes a particle. the wave we are looking at and aiming to meausre then cease to exist. It becomes some thing else: a wave stopped in time. Or we can continue to regard it as a wave, flowing, changing and transient - but then it cannot be measured at all and, in fact ceases to be physical as we understand the term. instead becoming energy in motion ( or e-motion, a term that includes our feeling about it.)

However we look at it, this "thing" we are observing does not exist in its own right. It is the choices we make and our behavious as observer that determines its reality and even then, how we see it changes it. All we can really say is " Things are , if we choose to believe they are" which begins to sound more like metaphysics than physics

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