May 2013
3 posts
Knowledge sharing is an essential component in the process of innovation. When...
– Spaceport Innovators: Knowledge Sharing as the Gateway to Innovation | APPEL http://t.co/5Iic8Vz0ko
The greatest danger leaders can face is isolation and an inability to keep...
– Robert Steven Kaplan http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2013/05/15/harvards-robert-steven-kaplan-on-what-were-really-meant-to-do/
The industrial model broke down work into its simplest elements and linked...
– Scott Beaty, Director of Knowledge Management, Shell Oil Company, 2000 (quote found via Nick Milton)
April 2013
4 posts
Social / Open Business Adoption is hard. Well, it should well be. If not, what...
– Luis Suarez - http://www.elsua.net/2013/04/23/social-business-adoption-the-laggards-the-critics-and-the-skeptics/
The Internet isn’t really a technology. It’s a belief system, a philosophy about...
– Joichi Ito http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/joichi-ito-innovating-by-the-seat-of-our-pants.html?_r=1&
A manager recently voiced his concerns: “Most employees prefer being told...
– Esko Kilpi http://eskokilpi.blogging.fi/2013/04/14/social-business-and-the-changing-theory-of-management/
Social Business has no doubt seen success in pockets. But mostly, Social...
– Sameer Patel
http://www.pretzellogic.org/blog/2013/04/06/circular-social-business-arguments/
March 2013
2 posts
Employees who want to game the system are going to do so inside or outside the...
– Tony Schwartz http://www.theenergyproject.com/blog/want-productive-employees-treat-them-adults#ixzz2Nk8PxSAa
The tension between ‘business’ and IT has been around forever, but...
– Peter Hinssen http://www.businessinsider.com/it-departments-have-become-completely-useless-2013-3
February 2013
2 posts
Working in a world of extended collaboration asks individuals to contribute...
– Tammy Erickson http://blogs.hbr.org/erickson/2011/03/challenging_our_deeply_held_as.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness%2Ferickson+%28Tammy+Erickson+on+HBR.org%29
Constraints shape and focus problems, and provide clear challenges to overcome...
– Marissa Mayer http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/how_intelligent_constraints_dr.html
December 2012
1 post
If implementing enterprise social software can increase employee engagement by...
– Competing on Talent Analytics
by Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne Harris, and Jeremy Shapiro
November 2012
2 posts
Almost all companies that enjoy success over a prolonged period, or that regain...
– From “Unboss” by Lars Kolind and Jacob Boetter
Social” is not a layer. “Social” is not a feature. “Social” isn’t a product. ...
– JP Rangaswami http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2012/11/02/plural-of-personal-is-social/
October 2012
3 posts
We do not keep separate sets of people, some of which we communicate in one...
– James Thomas Allen, “Managing the flow of technology” (MIT Press, 1984)
The architecture of work is the network and the basic unit of work is not a...
– Esko Kilpi, @EskoKilpi
"Facts"
42% believe in ghosts (Poll Harris Interactive 2009)
76% believe in miracles (Poll Harris Interactive 2009)
38% trust business to do the right thing (Edelman Trust Survey 2009)
September 2012
3 posts
This social revolution is unlike anything we have experienced before. It’s...
– Marc Benioff, CEO and co-founder of Salesforce http://m.cnet.com/news/salesforcecoms-marc-benioff-preaches-the-social-enterprise-gospel/57515986?ds=1
Companies that really do a good job of focusing on their customers, training...
– George Hu, Salesforce.com’s Chief Operating Officer http://www.forbes.com/sites/markfidelman/2012/09/19/salesforce-coms-new-social-strategy-is-brilliant-heres-why/
I’ve never been in a business that would be able to serve its mission...
– Brené Brown, author of Daring Greatly http://www.fastcompany.com/3001319/why-doing-awesome-work-means-making-yourself-vulnerable
August 2012
1 post
The flow of information unintentionally becomes gated as an organization grows,...
– Kim Stevenson, CIO of Intel Corporation http://on.wsj.com/PyP449
July 2012
1 post
If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to...
– Steve Jobs
http://thesmallwave.com/2011/08/28/ideas-not-hierarchy-on-steve-jobs-supposedly-making-all-apple-decisions/
May 2012
1 post
Wasting resources is a mortal sin at Ikea.… Expensive solutions to any kind of...
– The Testament of a Furniture Dealer: A Little Ikea Dictionary (Ikea, 1976)
March 2012
5 posts
Since we are all building brands in a digital world, I would encourage you to...
– Marc Pritchard, global marketing and brand-building officer, Procter & Gamble (P&G)
My observation is that the doers are the major thinkers. The people that really...
– Steve Jobs
Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They...
– Seth Godin
“Leadership” has changed when a decentralized group of people can...
– “Stop Talking About Social and Do It” by Nilofer Merchant
If habits are defined as repeated and automatic behaviors, then technology has...
– Nir Eyal http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/02/26/habits-are-the-new-viral-why-startups-must-be-behavior-experts/
February 2012
4 posts
In knowledge-driven organizations, operating in volatile environment,...
– Dilyana Simons (shared on Yammer with me and her other colleagues)
Trust is built by honest, sustained connection, communication and action. This...
– Paul Miller http://digitalworkplacebook.com/why-many-offices-are-hot-beds-of-deceit-not-t
…focusing on the denominator of the productivity equation – the cost side...
– Forbes: The Empowered Employee is Coming; Is The World Ready? http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/02/09/the-empowered-employee-is-coming-is-the-world-ready/2/
December 2011
3 posts
The best way to shape culture is of course to focus on hiring the people who...
– Why I Hire People Who Fail” by Jeffrey Stibel
You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it...
– Steve Jobs
Management in most organizations is blind for the waste of information work that...
– A friend of mine
November 2011
3 posts
Millions of highly paid MBAs and researchers scattered throughout corporate...
– “Far from the Factory: Lean for the Information Age” by George Gonzalez-Rivas Linus Larsson
40% of college students and 45% of young professionals would accept lower-paying...
– Cisco’s Connected World Technology Report http://t.co/F4U77q5b
I know a lot of companies with impressive mission statements. But there is a...
– Stephen R. Covey
October 2011
1 post
My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to...
– Steve Jobs http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/steve_jobs_solved_the_innovato.html
September 2011
5 posts
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round...
– The Crazy Ones, Apple Inc.
W. Edwards Deming at Western CT State University - February 1990
If the industrial revolution’s idea of a great business was one in which...
– Deb Lavoy http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/social-business-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-does-neither-does-enterprise-20-012620.php
Thanks to the Social Web, whether internal or external, or both!, knowledge...
– Luis Suarez http://www.elsua.net/2011/09/05/the-social-enterprise-welcome-to-the-era-of-intrapreneurship/
August 2011
10 posts
Web 2.0 IS ALL ABOUT personal sovereignty. About using media to do something...
– Hugh McLeod (via @elsua) http://gapingvoid.com/2011/08/19/its-not-my-content/
Customer service is more important than ever. We have noticed that when...
– Understanding the Customer of the Future
The days of general managers who know a little about a lot of things are...
– “Saving David Brent”, The Economist
We don’t have business units. Once a company has business units, managers tend...
– Patrick Pichette, CFO at Google http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Googles_CFO_on_growth_capital_structure_and_leadership_2846