CONJUNCTURED: Where Physical Space Met Cultural Revolution (Austin, 2008-2014).
Conjunctured was one of the original 50 coworking spaces in the world (Today there are 30,000+ spaces globally) . Launched two years prior to the founding of WeWork. We operated for 6.5 years and grew to three locations across Austin, Texas. This website serves as museum (of sorts). Don’t miss the awesome Flickr gallery of photos.
By Eva Dameron – Tuesday, 23 July 2013 Article in DeskMag
Thoughts & Commentary
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What is Leadership Today?
Today my new book- The Fifth Age of Work– has finally arrived. In the book I outline the various points of convergence between the growing world of freelancers and small businesses, on the one hand, and a rapidly transforming corporate world, on the other. For firms interested in thriving in the Fifth Age, as opposed to…
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Activity Based Work
Veldhoen + Company, the Dutch workplace consultancy that pioneered Activity Based Work, is one of the most important companies you’ve never heard of. ABW is, essentially, mass scale corporate coworking. Everyone in the company, including the CEO and other top managers, gets a laptop and a locker for storage. People choose workspaces that fit the…
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Y Leadership
This fall my new book, The Fifth Age of Work, will be published by Night Owls Press. The book tracks the parallel evolution of the independent, freelancer economy, on the one hand, and the rapid transformation of mainstream firms, on the other. At the heart of the book is the idea that, in the relatively…
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At the Crossroads
Standing at the Crossroads! There is something about Austin, Texas, and there is something about Conjunctured, though I’m still not sure what that something is. However, here we are, and both Austin and Conjunctured sit as crossroads for people in local, national, and global communities. Not a week goes by here at Conjunctured when someone…
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Employee Experience Design: Corporate Coworking, Part V
Over the past two weeks we have been writing about our new foray into corporate coworking. We’ve been chatting about leadership and community, which sit at the center of any organization or social movement. When we move the conversation from coworking in its native environment to coworking in a corporate environment (or Activity Based Work),…
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Co-mmunity: Corporate Coworking Part, IV
Earlier in the week I wrote here about the concept of co-leadership as part of the social dynamic that has made coworking a successful movement over the past seven years. Even more fundamental to the movement, though, is community. While perhaps the notion of community has been so overused by so many people in the…
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Co-Leadership: Corporate Coworking, Part III
Co-Leadership is the third installment in our series on ‘corporate coworking.’ In Part I we introduce the notion of corporate coworking to a broader audience. We have been kicking this around for a while, and apparently so have others in the world of HR (see John Sullivan’s parallel but rather different take on corporate coworking…
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Designing Culture? Corporate Coworking, Part II
Within the past week we have begun sharing our vision for how we want to extend the coworking experience ‘beyond coworking.’ What we are calling corporate coworking is elsewhere referred to as Activity Based Work (ABW), but it is really more than that. At the heart of this is culture. Our growing passion is to…
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