Don’t miss the opportunity to get better in the headlong rush to get to normal! I have enjoyed the privilege of chatting with many executives over the last few months and discussing their motivation for getting everyone back to work in their former office spaces. It was certainly gratifying to hear that many felt it…
Category: Teams
Pardon the Interruption!
According to a Gartner report, by 2020, the impact of interruptions on human effectiveness will cause 40% of enterprises to restrict notifications on wearables and smartphones. The concept of an interruption is an interesting one. The roots of the word are from old French, derived from “a break of continuity”. If you assume that a…
Yes, It’s True, Your Data can be Held Hostage
Articles today state: “A Los Angeles hospital just paid a ransom equivalent to around $17,000 in bitcoins to get its computer systems back up and running.” Ransomware has been a threat for some time and continues to have variations which threaten the accessibility and integrity of your data and systems. Unlike other virus or malware…
Unfriend – Word of the Year
As reported in multiple articles, including here, “unfriend” has been dubbed the 2009 Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. This is interesting in the context of social networking, and what it really means to “friend” someone. One could mistakenly infer that friendship as defined by Facebook is the same as friendship…
Is not being social anti-social?
With all the news about social networking, I have a pressing question. If you or your company are not participating in social networks, are you anti-social? I mean really, if you do not actively participate in some or all of the myriad of social networks popping up, are you in some way anti-social? In a…
CRM is Social Networking
There is a great talent pipeline developing in social networking. Think about some of the wonderful skills that are key to Customer Relationship Management (CRM): tracking interactions, building complete personal profiles, and constantly updating statuses down to the most seemingly trivial detail. Now look at social networking and think about some of the negatives attributed…
Start Less, Finish More
For the longest time I have been preaching “finish more than you start”. Ok, so this defies logic, but if put in the context of projects, I have restated it to “you can start one project for every two you complete”. Oh wait, this is still problematic. Ok, the real issue here is to insure…
Catch the Wave
Google Wave is being described as a communication and collaboration tool which seeks to introduce a new way of working, information sharing and interacting. Slated for introduction later in 2009, the web based, open source tool will seek to shift the collaboration paradigm by providing a one-stop source for everything digital about a topic that…
The People You Lead Don’t Use their Turn Signals
Now, that’s interesting. What does using your turn signals have to do with leadership? That depends on what you think the purpose of a turn signal is anyway. Turn signals on a vehicle are intended to communicate your intentions, they are a way to share information, to document and broadcast to everyone around you that…
Collaboration and Community in the Workplace
It’s unfortunate, but it continues to be easier and easier to participate in virtual communities outside the workplace than inside the workplace. Why is this unfortunate? It’s unfortunate because there is an escalating value loss when members of our business teams can identify more strongly with affiliations outside of work than inside. Granted, identity, affiliation…