My morning article read led me to a Forbes piece titled, “Why Social Skills Will Drive Success In The Workplace Of The Future.” In it the author highlighted that “layoffs are rampant, engagement is at a 10-year low and workplace loneliness is an epidemic.” The recommendations made to encourage social connection were to, among others,: […]
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Barnes & Noble’s recovery can be attributed to connecting it’s people to it’s community – A Social By Design Solution
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I’ve always appreciated Social Network Analysis (SNA). I’ve even started taking a UC Berkley course on the topic in what I guess is a reverse learning path as I’ve known more of it practically through the work of Valdis Krebs and OrgNet and Jeppe Hansgaaard and Innovisor for example but decided I wanted to get
Over 20 years ago Jim Collins penned the idea of Catalytic Mechanisms to transform organizations. He defined them as “devices that translate lofty aspirations into concrete realities.” Lofty aspirations today hover around buzz words like “innovation”, “responsiveness”, “collaboration”, “customer intimacy”, “employee engagement“, and today’s term de jour “digital transformation”. Collins said then, and it seems
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Today, to save lives, we’re being asked to practice physical distancing to the extreme. Shelter in place and self-quarantine are not normal activities and are challenging our personal needs, beliefs and behaviors by placing us in very uncomfortable and unfamiliar situations. And it’s this same uncomfortableness and unfamiliarity in organizational beliefs and practices that just
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