February 2012
4 posts
“In knowledge-driven organizations, operating in volatile environment,...”
– Dilyana Simons (shared on Yammer with me and her other colleagues)
Feb 20th
“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
Feb 15th
“…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/
Feb 15th
Feb 15th
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
Dec 12th
“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it...”
– Steve Jobs
Dec 8th
“Management in most organizations is blind for the waste of information work that...”
– A friend of mine
Dec 6th
2 notes
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
Nov 29th
“40% of college students and 45% of young professionals would accept lower-paying...”
– Cisco’s Connected World Technology Report http://t.co/F4U77q5b
Nov 7th
“I know a lot of companies with impressive mission statements. But there is a...”
– Stephen R. Covey
Nov 4th
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
Oct 25th
September 2011
5 posts
Sep 20th
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round...”
– The Crazy Ones, Apple Inc.
Sep 20th
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W. Edwards Deming at Western CT State University - February 1990
Sep 20th
“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
Sep 8th
“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/
Sep 8th
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/
Aug 30th
“Customer service is more important than ever. We have noticed that when...”
– Understanding the Customer of the Future 
Aug 22nd
Aug 19th
Aug 19th
1 note
“The days of general managers who know a little about a lot of things are...”
– “Saving David Brent”, The Economist
Aug 19th
“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
Aug 16th
Aug 13th
2 notes
“Our process centric world no doubt solves 90% of issues by volume, but provides...”
– “Why Exception Handling Should be the Rule” by Sameer Patel
Aug 8th
Aug 7th
Aug 5th
July 2011
6 posts
“…the successful change transformations were more likely to set behavioral [as...”
– From “Switch” by Dan & Chip Heath
Jul 31st
Jul 17th
1 note
“The confusion between what it takes to do well in routine tasks, especially for...”
– From “The Knowing-Doing Gap” by Pfeffer & Sutton
Jul 17th
“To build leadership bottom up, employees need to know that they hold immense...”
– Trust Through Transparency by Vineet Nayar
Jul 12th
“For the first time trust and transparency rank as important to corporate...”
– Trust and Transparency Important to Corporate Reputation by Sally Falkow
Jul 12th
“…there are three interrelated processes that explain why flawed...”
– “The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action” BY Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton 
Jul 6th
June 2011
14 posts
Jun 30th
“Like dusty and determined archaeologists, Google’s massive bots crawl the Web...”
– “How Facebook Can Put Google Out of Business” by Ben Elowitz
Jun 17th
“While badges and leaderboards can be effective tools in the modern workplace,...”
–  Salesforce.com’s Chief Scientist on Why Gamification is the Future of Work 
Jun 17th
3 notes
“People create value through their social interactions. They always did and they...”
– Anne Marie McEwan, http://www.thesmartworkcompany.com/2011/06/social-business-is-not-rocket-science/
Jun 17th
“But 20th-century, capital “H” Hierarchy (a sort of hardware) and the...”
– John Kotter, http://blogs.hbr.org/kotter/2011/05/two-structures-one-organizatio.html
Jun 17th
“There is always a way to be both ‘business-like” and creative, especially if...”
– CV Harquail, http://authenticorganizations.com/harquail/2011/06/15/social-intranet-design-and-organizational-identity-design-for-character-and-functionality/
Jun 16th
“So here’s the 21st century capitalists’ agenda in a nutshell. First, to rethink...”
– Umair Haque http://corporateknights.ca/article/capitalism-reconstructed?page=show
Jun 13th
“Within any given human system, all sorts of interactions among people are taking...”
– Mary Nations http://patternsandpossibilities.squarespace.com/blog/tag/human-systems-dynamics-hsd
Jun 13th
Jun 10th
“The opportunity for learning, Donald Schon suggests, is primarily in discovered...”
– “What would Donald Schön think of your social intranet?” by Gordon Ross, http://www.thoughtfarmer.com/blog/2011/06/09/what-would-donald-schon-think-of-your-social-intranet/
Jun 10th
“Business success is one of the biggest contributors to conventional wisdom. Like...”
– “Protect Yourself From Conventional Wisdom” by Holly G. Green, http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2011/06/protect-yourself-from-conventional-wisdom/
Jun 10th
“Before anyone takes on a leadership role, they should ask themselves, “Why...”
– “Why Leaders Lose Their Way” by Bill George http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2011/06/why-leaders-lose-their-way.html
Jun 9th
“…attitudes follow behavior…people accept new beliefs as a result of...”
– Pfeffer & Sutton, “The Knowing-Doing Gap”, 2000
Jun 8th
“Typically, functions and levels in organizations often converse through reports,...”
– Ashkenas and Jick, “From Dialogue to Action in GE Work-Out”, 1992
Jun 8th
May 2011
6 posts
“The real genius of organizations is the informal, impromptu, often inspired ways...”
– John Seeley Brown (via Frédéric Domon, http://www.entreprisecollaborative.com/index.php/en/articles/192-pourquoi-opposer-apprentissage-formel-ou-informel)
May 25th
“We talk much of Imagination. We talk of the Imagination of Poets, the...”
– Ada Lovelace, 1815-1852, Founder of Scientific Computing
May 17th
“However hard you try, you can not motivate another human being. Humans are...”
– Rajeev Pershawaria, The Three Things That Employees Really Care About http://www.fastcompany.com/1753078/too-many-bosses-too-few-leaders-rajeev-pershawaria
May 13th
“When you are listening to a language by collecting pieces of paper, that’s...”
– Peter Gilliver, an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer and resident historian
May 7th