collaboration

Four Ways to Create a Better Future

Seth Kahan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:14:22 -0500

Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the USA

Cisco's Collaboration Platform: Facebook for Business?

Addy Dugdale — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:52:43 -0500

photograph by Nigel Parry

Second Life Finds its Second Life as a Tool for Virtual Workers

Kit Eaton — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:17:05 -0500

Say what you like about virtual world Second Life--it just keeps spinning on. And now it's getting an official enterprise offshoot, which companies can run on their own server for virtual, corporate, uh, fun. There's even going to be an app store.

6 Steps to a Breakthrough

Seth Kahan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:59:41 -0500

Get your scope right.
Identify the area you will address. This will determine what is relevant and what is not as you move forward, untangling inter-dependent relationships.
Identify your Most Valuable Players
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The Change Leader's MVPs

Seth Kahan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:59:57 -0400

The Change Leader of Tomorrow

Melissa Dutmers — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:53:02 -0400

The change leader of tomorrow will not be a left brained technologist,but they will understand the implications of technology. The change leader of tomorrow will not be a touchy-feely HR person, but they will understand the implications of human behavior. The change leader of tomorrow will act more like a savvy guide rather than a prescriptive “I know what you need” salesperson.

The Change Leadership Team

Seth Kahan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:11:04 -0400

Mozilla's Raindrop: Chasing Google's Wave, or Damping Digital Noise?

Kit Eaton — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:50:41 -0400

Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox browser, just dropped a preview of an experimental project that will integrate IM, Twitter, Facebook, email, and more into one user experience. It's called Raindrop, and it sounds a heck of a lot like Google Wave.

Hamel: Time for Management 2.0

Seth Kahan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:16:19 -0400

Gary Hamel's message at the World Business Forum today is that your organization is not fit for the future unless it is fit for human beings. Hamel is a globally recognized expert in business strategy and performer extraordinaire on stage, delivering his message with verve and compelling stories.

Lencioni Teaches Team Engagement

Seth Kahan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:30:38 -0400

Patrick Lencioni is an expert in team performance. He is the author of eight best-selling books with over 2.5 million copies sold. After six years in print, his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team continues to be on national best-seller lists.

A Growing Wave of Hospital Excellence

Seth Kahan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:27:46 -0400

8 Conversations that Create the Future

Seth Kahan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:02:17 -0400

Profile of a Change Leader: Barbara Tulipane

5 Ways to Create a Shared Stake in Success

Seth Kahan — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:24:37 -0400

Success at leading change – dramatic, sustained improvement – is largely determined by a leader’s capacity to engage others in a mutually supported vision of the future. Engagement means getting people’s whole-hearted support and participation. When this is realized, change is held in place by myriad hands, heads, and hearts.

Change Management in 4 Steps

Seth Kahan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:02:12 -0400

When you are kicking off a new change initiative, the highest leverage activity bar none is face-to-face engagement with your key opinion leaders. Don't make the mistake of writing emails, designing brochures, putting together PowerPoints and sending them out into the change-o-sphere unescorted. Change is interactive. Here are the four steps to master:

Why You Should Have a Threesome, and Solving Other Partner Problems

Stuart Karten — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:05:07 -0400

Dear Stuart,

My client wants to bring her friend from the engineering department into our relationship. She's in marketing and we have great rapport--she listens to all of my ideas and is very supportive. I feel like her engineering friend is more of a downer. How can I accommodate my partner's wishes without getting tied down by constraints?

Vaporously,
Free Spirit

Dear Free Spirit,

The Hard Work of Collaborative Solutions

Jeff Swartz — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:33:07 -0400

In business school, everyone wanted to be the CEO--you know, the infallible one in the suit, with years of experience and wisdom, the one with all the answers.

What a bogus model. Turns out, the best leaders are the ones with the questions, the ones capable of forging collaborative networks.

7 Ways to Delight Clients

Seth Kahan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:55:08 -0400

I recently caught up with leadership guru, Steve Denning, author of award-winning books like The Secret Language of Leadership, and asked him about his new ideas on delighting clients.

Seth: So Steve, what’s all this about delighting clients? Why is this important?

Intel Nokia Partner to Tackle Post-Netbook, Post-iPhone Mobile Computers

Kit Eaton — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:02:22 -0400

Intel and Nokia have just announced a strategic partnership to tie up the two companies' technology so that they can tackle the problem of next-generation mobile computers. It's a plan that makes perfect sense in a world where we're all used to iPhones and netbooks.

Intel and Nokia Kiss, Plan to Make Super-Smartphone Babies

Kit Eaton — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:02:22 -0400

Intel and Nokia just announced a strategic partnership to tie up the two companies' technology so they can tackle the problem of next-generation mobile computers. It's a plan that makes perfect sense in a world where we're all used to iPhones and netbooks.

Inside MAYA Design's Innovation Boot Camps

Kate Rockwood — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:00:00 -0400

The engineer is holding his breath. Beside him, the project manager grimaces. A dozen Emerson employees, all in khaki pants and button-down shirts, are gathered -- silent and expectant -- around their teacher as he squints at their creations. Back in their real roles, making aerospace controls or medical machinery or marine valves at the $24.8 billion St. Louis-based manufacturer, these people are not often met with bewilderment. But then, they rarely bring raw ideas to consumers either.

8 Ways to Juice Your Meetings

Seth Kahan — Sat, 30 May 2009 08:27:07 -0400

Meetings are a core ritual in today's work world. Everyone is trying to figure out how to do them better. There is this temptation to think, 'if only I follow this easy-to-understand guide, my meetings will once again become useful, under control, relevant, well-organized.'

7 Lessons for Getting Change Right

Seth Kahan — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:31:39 -0400

Between 1995 and 1997 I participated in two distinctly different change initiatives at the World Bank, both called Knowledge Management. The first one never took off. The second one changed the organization, and the world, in two short years, demonstrating how a bureaucratic, geographically distributed, multi-national, public sector organization can reinvent itself faster than anyone could have planned.

In Pursuit of Elegance

Seth Kahan — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:24:11 -0400

Do you ever get the feeling something is missing? In the best instances, it often is.

"Grand elegance comes not out of control, but from chaos," said Matthew May when I spoke to him about his amazing new book, In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing.

Gaming Great Jane McGonigal Challenges the Industry: Make People Happier

Kit Eaton — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:42:36 -0400

Along with the usual news and excitement of the Game Developers Conference, going on this week in San Francisco, a speech by gaming guru Jane McGonigal stands out for one reason: She challenged game designers to actually make gamers happier.