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If you ever find yourself amid a group of Midwest technology consultants and you want to get them talking, ask them: “Have you ever had someone ask you to work for free?” It’s an amazing thing....

Would you call your surroundings a cube farm? If there are more than two bicycles in the copy room and a video of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” or something like it in the bathroom, you may work in a Midwest technology environment....

I went to this interview because somebody called my mother and told her he wanted to hire me. As near as I could tell, the job involved convincing one’s family and friends to take out new mortgages. If I took this job, I would spend...

A few months back I wrote about the negative effects of what I call process ideology — the predominating belief that most problems in business can be solved by changing the way work activities, responsibilities and decision making are designed....