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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Teaming with Young Guns

To attract and retain the young employees who are coming to dominate the workforce, companies should turn to a fresh take on a mature concept: teaming.

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

the core competency for network era work

I developed the personal knowledge mastery (PKM) framework of Seek > Sense > Share from a need to stay current as a working professional. As a framework it is not a defined set of practices nor a recipe book, as there are many unique PKM routines. Since first writing about PKM in 2004, I have... Read more »

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it’s about the network

“Network thinking lets us scientifically understand the world around us as one of connections that shape observed phenomena, rather than as one where the intrinsic properties of people, genes, or particles determine outcomes. Like previous scientific revolutions, the network revolution also has the promise of reshaping our basic commonsense expectations of the world around us,... Read more »

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Monday, January 04, 2016

Five Steps to Formalizing Forward Thinking in Your Organization

Forward thinking is more than a generic phrase. Here are specific tactics to help companies capitalize on future trends.

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Friday, January 01, 2016

Top 10 blog posts of 2015



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Thanks for a great 2015

Every year bring opportunities and challenges. And, if we are willing, along with those opportunities and challenges comes learning. So what have I learned in 2015? Reflection is critical for improvement. As I wrote earlier this year, studies show that regular, intentional reflection leads to improvements in productivity. So in 2015 I set about to […]

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Monday, December 21, 2015

Social Computing Guidelines and Why You Would Still Need Them

A few weeks back I wrote about the first of the 5 pillars I keep using with clients, time and time again, whenever they are embarking on the so-called Digital Transformation journey. Back in that blog entry I mentioned how having the right purpose is the main trigger to get things going.[...]

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Top tools for understanding economics

There are vital thinking tools that people well-informed in economics have that most other people do not. These tools are roughly translatable as being the following 8 things. These things are ones that need to be understood, but frequently are not. 1) Almost every action has tangible and intangible benefits, and tangible and intangible costs, […]

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Friday, December 11, 2015

Digital Limbo

In his influential book Crossing The Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore wrote of the challenges of moving from our old ways of doing things to new, technologically enabled ones. Sadly many don't quite make it to the other side and get stuck in some sort of digital limbo, not having let go of previous ways of doing things, but not fully embracing the new either.

Just because you have some new social platform, or aspire to "virtual working", doesn't mean that you don't need to manage situations or invest time in people and relationships. You may need to have less face to face contact but you need to invest more in building online trust and understanding.

Especially in the early days when everyone is finding their feet you need to be obsessive about staying in touch, being as transparent as possible, and stating the obvious at every opportunity. We have all seen comments threads spiraling downwards due to an off the cuff contribution, or people shooting off in the wrong direction due to a less than clear post. Worse still is the inclination to discuss online misdemeanors offline with the risk of that particular back-channel tipping into gossip and character assassination.

There is so much to be gained from using our tools appropriately and exercising our new found skills but it doesn't just happen. It takes thoughtfulness, focus, tolerance and consideration. Real work.



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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Agility: It rhymes with stability

Companies can become more agile by designing their organizations both to drive speed and create stability.

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Monday, November 16, 2015

The Next Generation of Social Media in the Office

Email is still the king of office communications, but company-hosted social networking platforms are gaining in popularity, especially among younger workers.

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Friday, October 30, 2015

Dare to be a Real Leader, not an Apocaholic

The human condition is driven by hope. We have, as a species, a tremendous capacity to deal with adversity, to adapt to volatile change and to move forward to make our lives better. As much as we like to complain, the world as a whole is better off than in the past. Whether they’re advancements […]

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Blog>> UNICEF Knowledge Exchange Toolbox

The United Nations Children’s Fund has just released a set of tools and techniques for facilitating knowledge sharing, some of which have been written by very experienced facilitators. Check out their complete Toolbox.

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