<p>Is it any wonder that employee engagement is reported to be at an all time global low while business continues to become increasingly complex? In an earlier article, Work is Broken; Let's Hack it, one of us described the trends and our understanding of how the future of work is shifting. Yet, most organizations are continuing down the same path of how they work.</p><p>[Note: This article is a collaboration with Ayelet Baron. Please see the attribution at the end of the article. - Rawn]</p><p>They may create an open space environment or allow work from home but these are minor changes that do not change the overall machine of business. It most often takes a major crisis, an industry-wide shift, or an act of desperation for large organizations to move away from 20th century management models and enter the 21st century. Most are still kicking and screaming all the way there.</p><p>An example of a 20th century practice is highlighted in a recent PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) study which estimated in 2012, there were 1.83 million corporate and business meetings, trade shows, incentive events and meetings, defined as "a gathering of 10 or more participants for a minimum of 4-hours in a contracted venue." Unfortunately, they do not report any uniform measure of what outcomes these meetings produced. That is part of the business problem we are facing; we are using old world metrics that report only on activity, not value.</p><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/rawnshah/2014/02/28/hack-work-to-combine-peak-performance-and-personal-purpose/">Keep reading...</a></p>