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Tag Archives: social business
“The task now is to discover how far they can take us.”
We were sitting across the table at a cafe, talking about our current projects, when she asked me one of those easy-to-ask, hard-to-answer questions: “What’s your mission?” I talked about making work more effective and fulfilling at my firm and … Continue reading
If you’re trying to change how your company works, you probably won’t
If you’re trying to make work better, you may be feeling, as Margaret Wheatley writes, “exhausted, overwhelmed, and sometimes despairing even as you paradoxically experience moments of joy, belonging, and greater resolve to do your work.” You may believe in … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Social Business
Tagged change, change management, hope, humanize, management, social business, systemic resistance
24 Comments
Ask Me Anything (or how to steal the best ideas for making work better)
One of the best books I’ve read about being creative is “Steal Like an Artist” by Austin Kleon. It’s a short book, more graphic novel than academic text. And it begins with a basic truth about art that can apply … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Social Business
Tagged creativity, enterprise 2.0, innovation, internet, management, social business
10 Comments
“So she posted her solution online, and then…”
If you watch TED talks, you’ll hear this phrase over and over and over again. People who are aspiring to make a difference will share their work online so others can use it and improve on it. Yet it’s a phrase … Continue reading
A better way to identify and develop talented people
One of the biggest tragedies of modern management is our approach to finding and developing talented people. For recruiting, we use top schools and other brokers to identify the talent for us. For people already inside the firm, we construct … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Social Business
Tagged career, career planning, enterprise 2.0, management, potential, recruiting, social business, talent management, working out loud
11 Comments
The best innovation program isn’t a program at all
Despite 1000s of years of evolution and countless books and studies on human motivation, we’re still using the Innovation Program and it’s cousin, the Suggestion Box, to inspire people to create change. These devices – and the general “let’s offer … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Social Business
Tagged collaboration platform, enterprise 2.0, innovation, social business
9 Comments
Social media at work. Really?
Imagine you’re a salesperson at a big global firm and you’re paid well into 6 figures. You’re at your office, about to call a client, and you want to research her first. Who’s she connected to? Where has she worked … Continue reading
Posted in Social Business
Tagged compliance, financial services, social business, social media
5 Comments
If Yahoo! employees worked out loud…
It could have all been avoided. When angry Yahoo! employees leaked an internal memo “asking all employees with work-from-home arrangements to work in Yahoo! offices”, it touched a nerve. Bloggers wrote about CEO Marissa Mayer’s insensitivity and hypocrisy. Other CEOs … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Social Business
Tagged collaboration, collaboration platform, enterprise 2.0, humanize, management, social business, Yahoo
17 Comments
The best office design for collaboration is also the cheapest
Steve Jobs wanted the Pixar headquarters to be a place that “promoted encounters and unplanned collaborations.” He was personally involved in the design details as he was with Apple’s plans for new headquarters. “If a building doesn’t encourage [collaboration], you’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Social Business
Tagged apple, collaboration, collaboration platform, enterprise 2.0, humanize, networking, platform, social business
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Towards a more humane workplace
If you want to mistreat someone, it helps to think of them as something other than human. And so, unfortunately, you’ll notice the same tactics used at work as in some of the greatest atrocities against humanity. Yet there’s hope … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Social Business
Tagged collaboration, collaboration platform, diversity, enterprise 2.0, humanize, management, platform, social business
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