Tag Archives: business

Engagement

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Thanks to my Melbourne-based compatriot, Michael Specht, I have seen this video from McDaniel Partners on the issue of employee engagement.

Riffing off the incredible Miniature Earth, it delves richly and poignantly into the lives of the people you work […]

Who’s going to E2EF on acidlabs?

Well, I didn’t get a huge number of entries for the free pass to the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney on 19 February, but those we got were pretty good and sometimes funny. I’ve decided that the winner is Jodie Miners. Here’s her entry (submitted via Twitter):

I’d love to go because I believe I’m […]

Want to go to E2EF for free?

Through a little serendipity, acidlabs has ended up as a partner for the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney on 19 February 2008. In the words of the Future Exploration Network, who are hosting the conference, it is:
An intensive half-day summit giving detailed executive perspectives on how Web 2.0 technologies can create value inside […]

50 reasons not to change

Change for change’s sake is bad. But some change can be good. The Biocultural Science & Management blog has published this great graphic on resistance to change.

I want this as a poster!
Via Patrick Lambe.

On the inside, the roses grow - value in corporate blogging

While the title is a reference to a line in a song that was the theme of one of the mainstays of 1980s Australian television, it’s also strongly reflective of my opinion on corporate blogging. Smart corporate blogging adoption is something that can have a marked effect in a number of areas in your […]

10 tips on KM strategies

In case you don’t subscribe to actKM, here’s some great thoughts posted there in recent days by Cory Banks. He gave them to a non-KM person as his top 10 tips for KM strategy in an organisation. I think they’re incredibly useful generally for KM and any activity that’s likely to require cultural and organisational […]

The wrong question

The “Ask the Experts” column in the latest (May 2007) issue of the Australian Institute of Management magazine Management Today contains a reader question as follows:
I’ve got some very knowledgeable people working under me, and frankly, it’s hard managing them.
I don’t know about you, but this strikes me as the wrong question to ask. […]

Radically transparent leadership

Clive Thompson recently published an article entitled The See-through CEO, where he discusses the notion of radical transparency. For those of you unfamiliar with the notion, it’s an extremely empowering way of running your business completely in the open. From the Wikipedia definition:
Radical transparency is a management method where nearly all decision making […]

Cultural shift through social computing

Over at his ZDNet blog, Web 2.0 guru Dion Hinchcliffe has written an excellent article on the use of social computing tools as a catalyst for change in business. He examines in reasonable detail (and links off to deeper content) several aspects of the way in which these tools can enhance productivity and collaboration, […]

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