How to start a change movement
Change movements fascinate me. People coming together to create change that is beyond the power of one individual, is how all of our greatest social accomplishments have been made. I have started a...
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Conserve Momentum
Organisations are full of people who tell you to stop. We are told to stop: to wait for a meeting to wait for clarity to wait for approval to wait for support to wait for proof to wait for another...
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Incent to Share
Photo by Eric Ziegler Your company doesn’t share information. There are silos in your organization. Each silo is not interested in helping the other silos. Enterprise Social tools are integrated into...
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Corporate Rebels Unite!
There are a number of enlightened individuals who are coming together to change the world of work. We love what change agent Peter Vander Auwera created in Corporate Rebels United. In his own words:...
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You Can’t Add a Collaboration Layer
Collaboration is human-to-human interaction. We are rich, creative and diverse, given the chance. You can’t add a collaboration layer to your existing processes. Collaboration is not something that...
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The Future of Work is The Future of Leadership
An insight about the future of work dropped this morning as I discussed leadership in the network era with Harold Jarche and Jon Husband, my colleagues in Change Agents Worldwide. The Future of Work...
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Change the Conversation
A large part of the history of our technology has been the effort to use technology to control human behaviour. Technology transformation is often sold on the potential to better make humans do things...
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Working Out Loud Requires being Vulnerable
Photo by Eric Ziegler I love listening to Podcasts. I listen to podcasts when I drive to and from work. I listen to podcasts when I am on a long drive – 6+ hours. I listen to a broad spectrum of...
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Voices Of The Corporate People
W. Kandinsky – Squares with concentric circles How can organizations become “social”? Adapting companies to the social economy so they can meet the requirements of empowered and connected customers...
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Leadership in Transformation
A common topic of debate in the Responsive Organization movement is whether an organization can become responsive or it must be born that way. Undoubtedly many of the leading case studies of future of...
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The Dizziness of Freedom by Diana Renner
Diana Renner and I were discussing working out loud this week when Diana mentioned that she had an unpublished blog post in development that I recognised as the feeling of the ‘trembling finger’ when I...
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The Five Daily Reflections of the Change Agent
Reading Seeds for a Boundless Life, a book on Zen Buddhism by Zenkei Blanch Hartman, I came across a reference to the Upajjhatthana Sutra’s Five Daily Reflections. The Sutra recommends daily...
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