Overview As part of a personal and professional development process to improve my emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and ability to lead and influence within organizations of various sizes, I am undertaking an informal research project to identify, categorize, and apply learnings around power dynamics in the workplace. Background I spent the first 12 years of my …
The insight-discovery process, which extends beyond a company’s boundaries to include insight-generating partnerships, is the lifeblood of innovation. We won’t belabor the matter here, though, because it’s already the subject of countless articles and books. One thing we can add is that discovery is iterative, and the active use of prototypes can help companies continue to …
Now, at the end of every project, or once a quarter if employees have long-term assignments, managers would answer four simple questions — and only four. The first two are answered on a five-point scale, from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree;” the second two have yes or no options: 1. Given what I know of this person’s …
Trust is built and maintained with these four traits: Common ground (we have similar values and objectives) Predictability (I can predict your behavior) Consideration (you will take my needs into consideration before you act) Forewarning (you will tell me before you act in a way that is not in my interests) via Gretchen Pisano
“We’re no longer living in the old economy, based on industrial-era principles. That’s over. We’ve crossed into the Postnormal, and most leaders are either unaware of that transition, or are seeing only disconnected parts of it.”–Stowe Boyd Digital and social media create a new infrastructure to build relationships, create products and services, and share resources …
Tim O’Reilly, Lessons from the Industrial Internet Digital media, mobile devices and cloud technology are tools that completely change an existing systems function. Adding any of these onto an existing strategy without considering the fundamental changes they bring may bring little to no improvement. Cloud technology moves the power of information from the organization to …
From Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog: Crowdsourced Philanthropy: Check out Givkwik to see an emerging version of this at work. Digital Action Campaigns: By “liking” an organization on Facebook you unlock a donation. See John Haydon’s post on 4 Types of Cause Marketing. Issue Awareness Campaigns: UNICEF recently ran a campaign on their Facebook page to raise …
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Decision makers use it to change the current distribution of the resources on hand. Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer wrote 9 Principles of Innovation, naming ‘Data Is Apolitical’ as one of them. “Some companies think of design as an art. We think of design as a science. It doesn’t matter who is the favorite or …
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“Good design is invisible. Minimum input, maximum output, with minimal conscious thought is what screen designers focus on. We do not try to find the perfect solution but the best compromise.”–Yves Behar Tweet
Social media continues to get noisier, but within that noise are individual voices and collective passions that your organization can listen to and optimize around in order to maximize effectiveness. Leading change today does not start with shouting loudly. When the voices and audiences were few, shouting worked. Now that the voices are many and …
