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The Big and Small of It
When I’ve see social collaboration happening, and I mean really happening, it’s been in small pockets within organizations. Tools aside, the trust, cooperation, collaboration and budding sense of...
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We Are A River
Who knew there was a river under NYC? Apparently Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters did. In a brilliant example of showing your work, Dave shares his process for writing the song “I Am A River” which...
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vox populi
Recent network conversations, some I’ve been a part of and others I picked up on, have led me to question who really gets all this discussion around social business and organizational social...
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The Long Tailers of Social Business
Social business talk hasn’t progressed much beyond what it is or how it’s done. Jon Husband noted this in a brilliant and succinct post back in 2013 where he said that “most of the conversation...
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Reimage Work
As you likely know, Reimaging is the process of removing all the software from your computer and reinstalling it. This process is necessary if your operating system becomes damaged or corrupt. This is...
View ArticleVox Populi (part 2)
Since my post Vox Populi was written and shared I have had the fortunate opportunity to have three casual meetings with some local folks wanting to chat about social and social organizations. I’ll...
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A Lesser Known Benefit of Enterprise Social Tools
Naturally much of the talk, and vendor pitch, around organizational social tools is about the tangible value they can bring to the work being done; reducing emails, eliminating meetings, working out...
View ArticleReframing the Value of Enterprise Social
About 10 years ago the Cognitive Linguist, George Lakoff wrote a fabulous book called “Don’t Think of an Elephant” in which he wrote how we can unconsciously adopt language that is the opposite of our...
View ArticleWhat’s the Problem with 70:20:10?
70:20:10 seems like common sense to me. Just glance around your work environment and you can see that this IS how people learn. The majority (+/-70%) of learning to do our jobs, about the culture, how...
View Article70:20:10’s Identity Crisis
Since my last post, “What’s the Problem with 70:20:10?” I have been fortunate enough to engage on Twitter, in face-to-face conversations and responded to a slew of comments on my blog. Additionally...
View ArticleLife and Death in the Social Age
I often write of the advantages of social tools for work; collaboration, cooperation, sharing resources and ideas. But this is different. I had, with the aid of social technology, the opportunity to be...
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How Do We Navigate Complexity within Complexity?
Technology has created disruption outside and inside organizations today. Ignoring it as a passing phase leads an organization to the risk of being made obsolete and trying to reverse the trends, to...
View ArticleThe Future Organization is a Porous Organization
I read recently that according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2012), the median number of years an employee stays with their employer in the U.S. is 4.6. On the surface this seems like a long time....
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The Beat Goes On
I recently attended a local, day long social media marketing conference. Unsurprisingly I left feeling a bit disheartened. Most of what I saw and heard was nothing more than doing the traditional...
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The Ghosts in Our Machines
The singularity, or the union of humans and machine/AI, for me always conjures images of embedded machines within our skin helping us think faster, move easier, monitoring minute vitals and ensuring...
View ArticleOrganizational Inattentional Blindness
By now you’ve probably seen the video where you’re asked to count the number of times a basketball is passed on a crowded court while a (spoiler alert) person in a gorilla suit passes through often...
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Humility is a Bluebird
I read that in sales circles the term bluebird is slang for an opportunity that is unexpected or very profitable. You can’t exactly create a bluebird in this context (sales) I suspect but in others, by...
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Voices on The Wire
Even after over 10 years of Social Media being in the public consciousness, organizations still struggle to see how it differs from other technology in the workplace. Most often they implement it as...
View ArticleIf You Love Something Let It Go
I’m going out on a limb here to challenge the notion that organizations need to invest heavily in employee engagement efforts. Blasphemy! You say? Hear me out first. I’m not saying that companies can...
View ArticleSimple Doesn’t Mean Easy
Over that last few months a local workshop for non-profits has been gathering weekly. Around 80 people from various organizations are involved. The hosts invited everyone early on to join Slack to...
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