I know full well that in enterprise social-land the idea of not using every function would be criminal to many. For them it’s just been assumed to be necessary or at least the ESN vendors like to make you think so. For the powers that be, closed groups contain specific people (executives perhaps), initiatives not ready […]
I read an interesting research piece on the purpose of sleep recently. Where we typically see sleep as the necessary time to quiet the body, to rest and heal (muscle, immunity, etc) the brain’s purpose may be different. Sleep may just be used to help us forget and there for improve learning. Sleep, according to
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James Tyer and I often find ourselves chatting on Twitter about our shared observations and ideas. One particular stream of though started to gel and we decided to formalize it some in a shared blog post (which was quite enjoyable) as an opportunity to extend the conversation. Let us know your thoughts. There’s much talk
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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 simply maintain business as usual and drive people away with horrible leadership and poisoned cultures but I do think there are
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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 our system performs optimally. But before all this I think we’ll see our union with machines through an emotional connection, and one that is
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