Why Changing The World Is A Two-Step Process
Neither personal responsibility nor collective impact can succeed without the other. To see change we must strike hard and try everything.
Marcia Conner
Marcia Conner works with ordinary people doing ingenious work and mediocre organizations realizing their employees can work in inspiring ways. She features stories of both in her upcoming book on ingenuity. She is an advisor to Esther Dyson's Way to Wellville initiative, a TEDMentor, member of Telefónica’s Disruptive Council, fellow of the Darden School of Business, and special agent with Change Agents Worldwide. Her last book was The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media. Superpowers include moving mountains, fighting phoniness, and inspiring others to join her journey to level up the world.
Why Today’s Leaders Should Take A Cue From Cliff Divers
The days of control and conformity are over, and it's within our power to bring today's workplace up to speed. All it takes is some guts.
Is Your Company Ready To Make The World A Better Place?
Humanizing workplaces, fostering sustainability, and increasing engagement are noble causes. They’re just not enough for employees if the company itself is a little evil.
Lessons From Andy Roddick To Improve Your Business Game
Andy Roddick has no more competitive tennis to play or wisecracks to fire. No more emotions on his sleeve or crowds to please. Yet his candid style serves up leadership lessons for all of us, in any field, as we aim to up our game.
Time To Build Your Big-Data Muscles
As data grows fast in volume, variety, and velocity, our capacity to consume, analyze, make meaning and act on data lags far behind.
Campus Party, The Biggest Tech Event You’ve Never Heard Of
The real potential of innovation comes from the power of surfacing unexpected ideas, connecting the dots, and putting them together in new and magical ways. Enter Campus Party, the next-next event in connecting ideas and sparking creativity.
The Future Of Better-Designed Enterprise Software Starts Now
The cost of poorly designed business software is money, time, and organizational health. Let's encourage vendors to learn from the better features of consumer products like Facebook and Amazon that productivity and enjoyment can coexist.
Baseball, Big Data, And Learnings From Advanced Analytics
Analyzing the massive explosion of baseball information capitalizes on a growing trend toward "big data," the tools and processes to harness insights found in gigantic data sets. A project to uncover Twitter sentiment around this year's post-season play provides an example of how the sheer amount of information need not outstrip our capacity to manage or access it in useful ways.
Now That People Finally Matter To Businesses, HR Is The Next Big Thing
The social business movement is forcing employers to treat people like the valuable assets they've always been. Is Human Resources ready?
Information Demands People
With the right data you can make educated decisions, more captivating client experiences, and ultimately create stronger financial returns. With the right people, putting that information in context, you can do anything.
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Rewiring for Social Commerce
Sale made. Gift given. Little girl ecstatic. Chalk up another wonderful transaction to social commerce. Does your organization need to rewire itself to benefit too?
The Rise of Social Everything
People have worked together, learned together, and made buying decisions together for centuries. What makes social the "it" topic today is that light mobile tools and vast digital networks extend our access and conversations with all our connections--in our workplaces, our communities, and online.
Blue Collar Collaboration
People on the front lines, doing nitty-gritty manual work, can teach us plenty about real collaboration.
Where Social Learning Thrives
To benefit from social learning, build a culture that makes learning fun, productive and commonplace, a culture where learning is part of everyday work. Marcia Conner and Steve LeBlanc look at where social learning thrives.
2Do.Over
What if 2.0 were an authentic chance to revisit and do over what came in 1.0? Maybe, just maybe, we'd get it right this time.
Twitterbursts: It’s Not About The Tools; It’s All About The Tools
The only thing new about Twitter is the medium. Humans have been sending smoke signals forever. So what makes this a revolution?
Twitterprise: Bringing Whole Selves to Work
Social messaging offers much more than collaboration when individuals include their multidimensional perspectives in the Enterprise stream.
Twitterprise: Bringing Whole Selves to Work
Social messaging offers much more than collaboration when individuals include their multidimensional perspectives in the Enterprise stream.
Learn More with Less: Nontraditional Fundraising for Corporate Education
With little money available for corporate education, how can organizations continue to support intentional learning in the enterprise? This is the third in a series of articles focused on learning as the money runs out.
Twitter Your Time-of-Day
Wonder if you're learning all you can from Twitter and Facebook? Consider the time of day.