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Monthly Archives: August 2012
“It’s just the internet at work.”
After 5 months of using a social business platform, I’ve stopped talking about social business. Hundreds of elevator pitches, demos, and blog posts later, I’ve pared down my description of our social collaboration platform to 6 words: “It’s just the … Continue reading
Posted in Social Business
Tagged collaboration platform, commercial value, enterprise 2.0, management, platform, ROI, social business
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Changing habits: a personal experiment
Over the past few months, I’ve been researching how to change habits at work. (I captured some of those ideas here, here, and here.) But before I can change the habits of an entire company, I need to do some … Continue reading
Avoiding learned helplessness at work
What do recent graduates think about working in large firms? Can work be fulfilling and meaningful and human for everyone (as I write about here, here, and here)? Or do most people work for money and go home for meaning? … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Self awareness and improvement
Tagged career, career planning, hope, humanize, management, networking, reputation, self-improvement
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Fieldwork before frameworks
If you don’t know the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, you should. He’s saving thousands of lives while changing how the world thinks about poverty, about disease, and about what’s possible. As we try to change how companies work, we … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Social Business
Tagged change, fieldwork, management, Paul Farmer, social business, social change
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