The System Always Wins
Just beyond the org chart of authority and decision-making is what keeps it all in place; the systems of communication, trust, information flow and rewards.
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What is Organizational Social Design?
6 years ago, shortly after I turned in my resignation to move on to a larger leadership role, the COO of my company called me to his office in an effort to convince me to stay. At the end, when he knew I wanted to move on, he asked me a question I never saw
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Networked to the Bottom Line
I recently met a financial consultant, Jon Verbeck. Jon has an extensive background in finance and the processes. He works with business CFO’s focusing on solutions for growing profits and cutting costs. I received his newsletter yesterday with a link to his latest article Focus on Profits, Part 1: Decrease Costs. It’s a positive look at
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3 Psychological Barriers to Leadership Buy-in
One battle those in the enterprise social space continue to fight is the battle for leadership buy-in. I was reminded of this by two articles I read recently, one by Andrew Gerkens in his recent “The real reasons senior leaders won’t use your ESN” and the other by Rich Millington of Feverbee who wrote in
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Open Up!
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