Growing Social: 4 Different Paths to Social Organizations
Organizations can ‘grow social’ through 4 different paths, driven by technology, social business, collective values, and ‘product’ resonance. Two of these paths are more likely than the others to create organizations that are authentically social. Can you guess which two, and why?
Are Your Social Business Systems Designed for Extraction or Contribution?
The move of social business systems into work organizations exacerbates a tension that’s built into every idea-intensive workplace. Idea-intensive workplaces ask employees to contribute not just the work of their […]
How Social Media Affects the Organization Itself: Post Roundup
What are we learning as we watch (and help) social media, consumer-outreach -style tools, make their way into the organization? We’re learning that this phenomenon can be understood from a […]
Systems of Engagement: Technology for Social Organizations
“Systems of engagement.” Isn’t that an evocative term? The minute I read it, I knew that the term “systems of engagement” captured something important–but what? I searched the web, I […]
Social Media for Social Change — Inside the Organization?
This post is featured on Social Media Today. How has the activity of organizational change been changed, with the advent of social media? Back when I was an internal OD/Org […]
Insights about Authenticity from the Open Community Book Tour
I’m taking part in the virtual book tour and are doing to explore concepts from . Maddie and Lindy, along with their colleague Jamie Notter, have long been some of […]