Connecting to Generation C
Generation C (where C stands for “connected”) makes up only 23 percent of the U.S. population. They also lead all other groups in their use of digital equipment. “Connecting to Generation C,” an...
View ArticleTeamwork is the Key to Great Leadership
Bill Flemming, president of Skanska USA Building Inc., works for the people below him. They don’t work for him. During an interview with Adam Bryant, Fleming said: “I’ve seen organizations where the...
View ArticleBusiness is Getting Powerful Leverage and Results through Internal Social Media
The use of social networking within business is still a pretty new concept and used by a small percentage of companies, but already there have been some very creative and brave experiments around its...
View ArticleVirtual Agility Enables Company to Thrive
When we think of virtual teamwork it’s almost always in reference to groups of remote people using some of the latest technology to collaborate and complete a project. In this Forbes article on Virtual...
View ArticleMcKinsey Interview with Don Tapscott on Internal Social Networking
McKinsey posted the above video interview with Don Tapscott, an adjunct professor at the Univerity of Toronto, about internal collaborative networking. Tapscott is a big advocate for the use of social...
View ArticleLearning From the Masters of Collective Intelligence
With current technologies and collaboration tools, the idea of collective intelligence has a good chance of being utilized in increasingly valuable and imaginative ways. We’ve posted several articles...
View ArticleBoost Collaboration Through Internal Social Media
In our previous post we noted Adam Grant’s strong case for developing what he calls the “giver” culture (The Giver Culture and High Performance Teams). Perhaps complimentary to that approach it’s...
View ArticleThe Embrace of Change is Paying Off
Although there is much hope in business for the use of social and virtual technologies, is it actually bringing the results? Increasingly reports are showing that the shift in how business is done is...
View ArticleA New Source of Innovation: The Enterprise
The ability for an entire enterprise to act as a cauldron of innovation was just a dream for some people who had the view that leadership should strive to engage all employees. With today’s advanced...
View ArticleSocial Collaboration Leads the Way at IBM
While some companies try to figure out what benefits they may get from developing social media connections, businesses like IBM are not waiting for someone else to show the way. With today’s...
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