Ten Serendipity Economy Lessons Learned from Playing Words with Friends. The Serendipity Economy turns our industrial age bias toward linearity, productivity, and prediction on its head by suggesting that productivity doesn’t always lead to value and that increasingly, we can’t predict where value will emerge from our work or the magnitude of value that will come from that … [Read more...] about Ten Serendipity Economy Lessons Learned from Playing Words with Friends
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More Collaboration Means Less Collaboration Software
I was reading a post this morning that asked the following question: More BI Packages Add Collaboration: Who Needs It? (http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/bi/231903450?cid=nl_IW_daily_2011-11-21_html) Good question. Organizations need to focus on deploying a set of collaboration tools that connect with other technology, not collaboration tools within other … [Read more...] about More Collaboration Means Less Collaboration Software
Netflix: Strategic Dysfunction or 21st-Century Strategic Transparency fueled by citizen regulators?
Photo by freestocks.org on Pexels.com Netflix: Strategic Dysfunction or 21st-Century Strategic Transparency fueled by citizen regulators? The tale has been told about Netflix and its surprise announcement of rate hikes (see Brian Stelter's summary, Netflix, in Reversal, Will Keep Its Services Together, from his Media Decode blog at The New York Times), its equally … [Read more...] about Netflix: Strategic Dysfunction or 21st-Century Strategic Transparency fueled by citizen regulators?
Management Maxims From Kim Kardashian, Communications Genius
Kim Kardashian knows how to stay on message, to amplify that message through partners, and to make everything look beautiful. Here are 10 lessons from her communications juggernaut that managers should adopt to make their initiatives succeed. Read my full blog post at Fast Company leaders: … [Read more...] about Management Maxims From Kim Kardashian, Communications Genius
Why do people lurk in online communities?
Recently I was invited to join a Yammer community focused on learning. This morning one of the members asked a question about lurking. I thought I would also share my response here. Most recently, I have had discussion about mature groups becoming clicks that don't offer much comfort to new members (except pushy, assertive or very self-confident ones). Other reasons … [Read more...] about Why do people lurk in online communities?
