01 Friday May 2015
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Catching up with Genevieve Bell of Intel, and Marina Gorbis of IFTF here at the #WPOconf (Women Presidents Organization).I’ll see Genevieve in Sydney too at Amplify Festival
Look, their books are here too.
Cross-posted from Facebook on May 01, 2015 at 01:04PM.
15 Thursday Jan 2015
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Prof. Alan Fiske described 4 basic ways that humans do things for others. Whether you call it ‘work’, ‘exchanges’, ‘favors’, or selling goods and services, these still exist today:
1) Power — you do things because some in Authority tells you to
2) Altruism — you do things for anyone else because the expected norm is that everyone helps everyone
3) Barter — you do things in exchange for something from someone else
4) Currency — you do things based on a price that is agreed upon by market forces
Families, Tribes, Villages, Cities, Nations, everyone, regardless of the shape of your network, applies this differently for each groupings and communities they are a part of. It can also be situational, based on conditions, emotions or relationships.
http://onforb.es/12IpmGe #socbiz
Four Elementary Forms of Sociality Impacting Trust and Relationships
“About 20 years ago psychologist Alan Page Fiske and author of Structures of Social Life (Free Press 1993), now Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, wrote about the Four Elementary Forms of Sociality that describe our mental orientation of the form of exchange that we think we should use in each […]”
Cross-posted from Facebook on January 15, 2015 at 09:46AM
31 Wednesday Dec 2014
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My top 3 Forbes articles posted this year were:
– Revealing Data Science’s Job Potential — http://onforb.es/1eVbQkP
– Leadership Skills multiply with Language Skills — http://onforb.es/1yg35yX
– The Workplace Of The Future Is Still The Office — http://onforb.es/1rBRsKe
The topics vary but they are all related to the future of work #fow as opposed to my prior coverage of Social Business. I think most of us agree that is the direction that #socbiz has taken over the course of 2014. It is much more than about collaborative tools, but the attitudes and future skills, as well as the setting in where and how we will work. This is a longer term trend that will span years.
Revealing Data Science’s Job Potential
“O’Reilly Media released results of its 2013 salary survey of Data scientists revealing the detail demand for expertise, as well the radical…“
Cross-posted from Facebook on December 31, 2014 at 10:05AM via IFTTT
14 Friday Jun 2013
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The flagship event for the field of Social Business, the Enterprise 2 Conference by UBM Tech, is just around the corner, next week in Boston and it is time to take a look at the state of things. I talked to Amit Singh, President of Google Enterprise, and Stan Swete, CTO of Workday to get their perspectives on how enterprise-scale IT is evolving, and looking beyond the IT department: how is this changing the way we do business?
Read More on Forbes [published Jun 14th 2013]
12 Wednesday Jun 2013
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I’ve been to enough conferences over the past 20 years as a writer/blogger to know what you carry with you can make or break a timely story. There have been numerous events when I ran into someone really interesting, and needed to capture the conversation in the moment. So for Father’s day, I offer my suggestions on the tools I use and tips I’ve learned over the years to make the best of such moments.
Today, practically anyone can become a news source as a blogger. It makes the meeting more memorable, saves the conversation to be re-shared with others if allowed, and can have a side benefit of adding to your social reputation. To that end, here are my suggestions for Father’s day: a short list of useful gadgets and items to help that well traveled business dad to get that story.
Here’s the short list of the carry-no-bag solution I prefer
07 Friday Jun 2013
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Dan Pontefract with his book, Flat Army (image: Dan Pontefract)
Serendipitous to the opening chapter of the book, The Mona Lisa Is So Small, I was at the Museé de Louvre visiting the magnificent collection of Italian masters when I received notification of a copy of Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization (Wiley 2013). My reaction was quite sympathetic to Mr. Pontecraft’s own experience per his introduction: Upon entry, crowds of people & tour groups would rush right away upstairs to see the Mona Lisa first and foremost ignoring master works all around for notoriety. Popularity by itself is not leadership in my view.
[Personally, I was enamored by the enormity of the Veronese Paolo Caliari’s,The Wedding Feast at Cana at the opposite end of the same room, for the fascinating amount of networking that occurs in any political wedding ceremony.]
Flat Army covers a lot of interesting idea sources from both the immediate management and social science fields but also a good deal of history and culture. From the idea of Guanxi to the Multilevel Neural Network of North East Italy; from the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western Front in World War I, to the sociology of why bus riders won’t share seats; from JP Rangaswami’s thoughts on trust, to Leo Apotheker’s brief but tumultuous and guarded reign at HP.
01 Saturday Jun 2013
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Top 5 Social Media Influencers of the Thinkers50 (infographic: Rawn Shah)
Every two years since 2001, the Thinkers50 project by McGraw-Hill has scored the leading business management researchers and thinkers of the world, who focus on world-changing ideas, a view that management is essential to human affairs and that new thinking can create a better future. As fellow Forbes columnist, Steve Denning indicates, this management revolution is already happening pointing to the work of some of the same thought leaders on that list—and others who should also be considered—showing the path to this better future.
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20 Monday May 2013
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At the annual Lithium Technologies LiNC conference in April, I heard about an innovative approach to credit cards in the Banking industry that is built on the core ideas of social business: a community-driven credit card fromBarclaycard USA. This is a solid business product that makes sense to customers, supports the business, and combines financial responsibility with the engagement of its customer community.
This is more than just an attempt at shifting customer support to online, but a redesign of well-known product (a credit card), where customers have become stakeholders. They have transparency to the success of the product with visibility of the P&L statement, input into P&L decisions and by educating each other to become more financially responsible.
Paul Wilmore (photo: Rawn Shah)
I spent 30 minutes with Paul Wilmore, Managing Director for Consumer Markets, Barclaycard USA to talk about what makes their model different and what they are learning from this new product model designed around social business principles.
30 Tuesday Apr 2013
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Rob Tarkoff, CEO of Lithium Technologies speaking at LiNC13 (source: Rawn Shah)
Content marketing has become a growing trend to reach out to potential customers online, supplanting traditional advertising. According to MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute, more than half (55%) of B2C marketers plan to increase their content marketing spending in 2013, on average constituting 28% of their budget. Advertising as a means to draw an audience is still a big spend but reading actual content rather than just clicking on an ad is starting to draw online readers attention.
The debate now is not whether content marketing is a viable strategy but whoshould be creating that content, and what can you trust. It’s plain and simple, with social media tools easily available everywhere online, it is possible for anyone to take up shop and start creating content, claim themselves as experts on a topic and write away. We suffer from the reality of Internet-scale. Per Author & Professor, Clay Shirky, rather than an economy of scarcity, we face an economy of abundance. Content is so easily available we need systems to help us find the relevant, useful, trusted ones.
So, how can a reader trust content?
The Reconnected Organization 