My father was never one to use profanity, with one exception. In those instances when I was taking just too long to make a decision or show progress, he’d say, “Rob, it’s time to … or get off the pot!” We’re pretty much at that point with Enterprise Social. In […]
Forrester Overview of IT Measurement Models
After the Deluge
magazine cover After the Deluge Despite a torrent of interest in ROI, truly workable solutions are just beginning to emerge. Norm Alster, CFO IT October 15, 2002 One by one, they rose to make their pitches to the IT steering committee. As the day wore on, recalls consultant Doug […]
Learning Event Strategies To Enhance Motivation
Motivation Sign Pic Frederick Herzberg, a pioneer in employee motivation, taught that an employee’s opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, and be recognized for achievements is a much more powerful motivator than just money. With increasing regulations in the mortgage industry and the stress associated with rapidly implementing the […]
Three Types Of Social Network
Three Types of Social Network
On Leadership and Collaboration
Collaborate A 2009 IMD publication makes the observation that: There is a growing tendency in business to recognize that pooling the ideas, resources, commitment and efforts of many is more effective than relying on the few best individuals. The publication goes on to analyze the way collaboration was utilized at […]
The Neuroscience of Leading Change by Creating New Habits
“The task is…not so much to see what no one else has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” – Erwin Schrodinger brain_behavior2 Changing human behavior in an organization is a large-scale and seemingly daunting undertaking. Or is it? Helping people […]
The Denison Organizational Culture Survey
The Denison Organizational Culture Survey (DOCS) has increasingly become the cultural and organizational effectiveness assessment tool of choice. It has been used by more than 5,000 companies worldwide since first becoming available over 20 years ago. Using the Denison Organizational Culture Survey , organizations are able to benchmark their […]
If You’re Going to Change Your Culture, Do It Quickly
Culture change is a bear. The conventional wisdom is that it takes years to change a culture, defined as the assumed beliefs and norms that govern “the way we do things around here.” And few organizations explicitly use culture as a way to drive business performance, or even believe […]
**Building the social enterprise**
Why do so few companies capture the full value of social technologies? There’s no doubt organizations have begun to realize significant value from largely external uses of social. 1 1. Roxane Divol, David Edelman, and Hugo Sarrazin, “ Demystifying social media ,” McKinsey Quarterly , April 2012. Yet internal […]