Leadership

BYOD and Your CEO

What’s small, shiny and keeps CIOs up at night? The CEO’s personal devices. CEOs are like every other employee. They love tablets, smart phones and apps. The glaring difference is that the CEO’s personal devices put the company at much greater risk…

business-first technology leadership wins

In 2010, when I wrote the Elemental Links tagline, “Technology Insights for Business Enthusiasts”, some of my trusted associates pushed back, telling me that I need to lead with TECHNOLOGY. But, here’s the thing. In the enterprise, from which I came and…

Social Collaboration vs. Quiet Contemplation

Roughly 20-30% of the population is acknowledged introverts and it’s no secret that IT has its fair share. One of the more famous is Steve Wozniak who dreamt up the first Apple computer in solitude. It’s highly unlikely that this quantum leap…

Whiteboard Culture: An Organizational Competitive Advantage?

Guest post by Sachal Lakhavani Does your organization have a whiteboard culture?  When faced with complex problems or collaborating with people with different perspectives, do the people in your organization draw to communicate in a dynamic and visual way, or do they…

We Need More Demos

TED is an unbelievable place to step back from the day-to-day and dream big.  As I described in my first TED 2012 post this week, this place puts me in a great frame of mind to find meaning in just about any…

Task Switching Costs

Happy Leap Day 2012!  Scott Ambler (@scottwambler) tweeted about task switching costs and resource management.  Here are Scott’s tweets: Many “resource managers” will assign someone to several teams to ensure they are fully utilitized. 1/2 When people are assigned to multiple teams…

Trust Agents – Book Review

I finished reading Trust Agents, Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation and Earn Trust,  by Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan) and Julien Smith (@Julien) as part of my Masters class Enterprise Social Media @ Syracuse University iSchool. The book is very well…
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