Information Management for Organizational Effectiveness

Friday, 21 Nov 2025 | Uncertainty exercise

This page was set up for the possibility that we would not have an alum to speak with us. Happily, we do have an alum to speak with us and Manning Matrix will lead the Q&A session with her.

Our guest is a 2016 BSIS graduate of UNC and is a Scrum Master at Fidelity Investments.

Roy Bahat was worried. His company invests in new technology like AI to make businesses more efficient -- but, he wondered, what was AI doing to the people whose jobs might change, go away or become less fulfilling? The question sent him on a two-year research odyssey to discover what motivates people, and why we work. In this conversation with curator Bryn Freedman, he shares what he learned, including some surprising insights that will shape the conversation about the future of our jobs.

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Read to prepare yourselves for some discussion

These two related articles have some relationship and so they should be read. Those who are on the schedule will preview these blog postings.

Our bodies function in accord with a natural rhythm that comes from the Earth rotating on its axis once every 24 hours - give or take a few minutes. We aren't made to live our lives in artificial light, waking to an alarm clock and sleeping to the blue light from a smartphone. Nearly every living thing on the planet, including us, generates internal circadian rhythms that are synchronised to the solar cycle ... The great circadian disruption through which we have lived since the invention of the electric light is bad for our physical and mental health. The 24-hour society will present further risks.

Ponder How the 24-hour society is stealing time from the night by Leon Kreitzman in Aeon Magazine, 22 November 2016.

But maybe there's hope in structural changing

The 14 Principles Of The Future Organization. From Forbes, some thoughts from Jacob Morgan.

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Optional, but may well prove interesting

A philosophical approach to thinking about organizational change. Hapag Lloyd container ship, from Deutsche Welle

Change is difficult. Not changing is even worse. Tools are essential, but how we implement the tools and grow the culture and practices in our organizations needs even more attention.

Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths) | Bridget Kromhaut in COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | APRIL 2018 | VOL. 61 | NO. 4

Something else

Jon Batiste

from Last.fm

Jon Batiste was born in Kenner, Louisiana, into a long line of musicians ... At the age of 8, he played percussion and drums with his family's band, the Batiste Brothers Band. At his mother's suggestion, he switched to piano at the age of 11. Jon developed his piano skills by taking classical music lessons and transcribing songs from video games such as Street Fighter Alpha, Final Fantasy VII and Sonic the Hedgehog.
At 17, Batiste released Times in New Orleans. He attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts with Trombone Shorty and graduated in 2004 before going on to receive a bachelor's and master's degree from the Juilliard School. While at Juilliard, he released his second album Live in New York: At the Rubin Museum of Art, and by the end of 2006, had been a featured performer in South Africa, London, Lisbon, Spain, Paris and the United States.

He reminds us that music is a connector and has networks of connections.

And a fuller version.