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 customers and a few partners….
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 teleconference calls over a half-century…
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 newsletter (a real, paper newsletter)…
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 the individuals who are connected…
Around the time I was enmeshed in a deep existential crisis over my life’s work and current occupation, Anil Dash wrote this piece on his blog: The Web We Lost. Somehow I missed that post when it was originally published, but it’s uncanny that he wrote it the same month I was essentially ruminating on…