Six Ways to Declare Your Business’s Connection to the Feminist Community
How do we recognize that a business is working to be accountable to the feminist community? If “connection to the feminist community” is one of seven dimensions that defines a […]
How Generosity At Work Saved a Local Business
~ crossposted from cvharquail.com ~ A story from my own hometown… When I was getting my start-of-the-semester haircut in February, I was surprised to see Hannah, the woman who cuts […]
Generative Business Practice: Questions from Harvard’s Digital Initiative
I got lots of feedback from the folks who participated in the HBS Digital Initiative seminar where I presented some big picture ideas about generative practices. As promised, I’m […]
From Generativity to Generosity: What's at the core of these new business practices?
I’m experimenting with shifting from generativity to generosity to describe what’s unique about the business processes I’ve been studying, trying to distill these ideas into a form that’s simple and […]
Growth Hacking To Scale Generosity
When a startup like Harrys.com launches with an outreach campaign that that gets 85K potential customers to share their email address, people are impressed. When the cofounder of that company writes […]
Generativity, in General
The word ‘generative’ may be unfamiliar to many business people, but the quality of generativity is something we’ve sought in our companies and our work practices for a long time. […]
Don't Tell Esty That Authenticity Is Getting "Old" — The Social Dynamic Between Crafters and Buyers is Timeless
“A deluge of vintage and artisanal products is now available online and through mass-market retailers. Has authenticity become just another fad?” Here’s a quick response to today’s New York […]
How to Design Social Business Systems For Engaged, Social Organizations
Organizations are social — they always have been. But, organizations have rarely been designed intentionally to help us flourish as social beings while we work together. Neither our analog systems […]
5 Ways That Systems of Engagement Bring Out Our Full Social Selves
Technology has a way of sucking the humanity right out of us. Consider how we describe, design and deploy ‘enterprise 2.0’ and work system technologies in our organizations: — When […]
7 Ways That Social Business Advice is Wrong for Your Organization
“Social Business” is coming to your organization, whether you’re ready or not. Social business tools, also known as enterprise social media or systems of engagement, are increasingly being advocated by […]