The skills and talents of a design professional are not necessarily the skills and talents that will help them succeed with a startup business. Many “entrepreneur designers” could do with some help from professionals who can help them see the “big picture.”
When designer entrepreneurs fall in love with their designs, the perfect can become the enemy of the good.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, working from home has become the prevalent way of working for many employees around the world. Consequently, the nature of daily interactions that previously were taken for granted has changed profoundly, affecting the quality of the work experience. Pursuing connections rather than disconnecting oneself from others can be a purposeful act leading to a positive work experience and thriving. However, there is limited research available about how to thrive while working remotely. Drawing on the micro-organizational literature, this paper presents a framework for individual thriving while working from a home office by nurturing relationships with various stakeholders. Guided by theory on relationships, thriving, and individual accounts of relationship challenges while working from home during the pandemic, we propose strategies for maintaining fruitful relationships in circumstances characterized by uncertainty, anxiety, and loneliness. We argue that employees can be the designers of the following high-quality relationships, which may transform their remote work experience: the relationship with self, with colleagues, with leaders, and with one's partner and family. In this way we make theoretical contributions to Spreitzer et al.'s model of employee thriving.
This article discusses the issue of assessing the quality of cluster management by utilizing Internet customer feedback about companies that are members of clusters. Due to the growing number of Internet users, companies pay greater attention to the opinions published about them. Consumers are also increasingly willing to share their opinions and thoughts about the products they use. As a result, it has become possible to analyze the quality of services and products provided by an enterprise based on Internet opinions. In this article, we analyze the quality of cluster management as reflected in the European Cluster Excellence Initiative (ECEI) label, as measured by sentiment analysis of Internet opinions. The paper proposes a method for the identification and evaluation of Internet sources used in the opinion sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis of Internet opinions of cluster and in-cluster business customers was performed, and the results were compared with the level of the ECEI label, which was awarded to the analyzed clusters. The conducted research showed convergences between formalized systems of management quality assessment and the level of opinions expressed on the Internet. The results testify that sentiment analysis can complement the evaluation of cluster management quality.
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