Once in a while, a book comes along that validates everything you’ve come to believe about a specific topic or trend. Frederic Laloux’s new book, “Reinventing Organizations” did that for me in a way nothing else has over the past seven years I’ve been focused on applying the principles of […]
Next week I’m off to Houston to join the Yammer team who’s kicking off Microsoft’s Working Social Tour in Texas. I’ll attend the Houston event, but will speak at the Austin event here on Thursday at Scholz’s Beer Garden, May 22 starting at 1pm. The day will include a variety of speakers including […]
My friends and colleagues at Change Agents Worldwide are kicking off a “blog carousel” to address all these reasons why organizations can’t change. This list was carefully compiled by a Product Engineer of the Milwaukee Gear Company in 1959. These objections still live on today in memos, meetings, analysis decks, and […]
Networks and spheres of influence have been around a long, long while. Communications and computer advances have just given network actors agency and expediency. I’ve been starting to partition my career into two distinct eras: BT and AT (Before Twitter and After Twitter). I first wrote about the Internet in my […]
What’s the most important quality a leadership will require in the Network Era? Humility. This might be the most difficult lesson to learn for future executives. Power will not be automatically anointed by virtue of title, salary, corner office, or company jet. You’ll have to earn the respect and commitments of […]
