Tweet A recent discovery for me is McKinsey & Company’s new site What Matters. It is a thought provoking question and it is good to see it being tackled by McKinsey and their interesting array of authors. The things that matter change if we are considering big or small things. At this time in our [...]
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Alignment of articulated and enacted values in business
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
Tweet The issue of how well an organisation’s values align between what they say they are and what they actually do in practise was illustrated very graphically by a large software company this past week. It also shows how difficult it is to get all parts of a large organisation to act in the same [...]
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It’s real people and real communications
August 13th, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
Tweet This past week I spoke at the Sydney session of the International Customer Service Professionals (ICSP) on the topic of How can Social Media benefit our business? along with several other well known professionals (@carolskyring, @jasonealey , @CatrionaPollard). It is always interesting to see how business people – whose real jobs are something completely [...]
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Filesharing: copyright has always been a bit broken but we never noticed
August 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · future, ideas
Tweet I was chatting to someone at a party on Saturday night about copyright. The gentleman I was chatting with was strongly in favour of strict enforcement of copyright. He was advocating fining people who share copyright material online. It got me thinking. Once you consider the problem in offline terms it seems that many [...]
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Some thoughts on women, management & work #wmwc
July 29th, 2010 · No Comments · a woman in ..., ideas
Tweet I’m lucky enough to be attending the Women, Management and Work Conference in Sydney today. There is a great turnout, with many familiar names and faces from around Australia. So far there has been an impressive line-up of speakers. Yet these impressive speakers each talked about the issues around gender pay equity (which does [...]
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Social media: blurring the boundaries
July 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments · ideas
Tweet In the past we used to be able to separate the public from the private and business from the personal quite easily. But this was an aberration. Privacy was a tiny blip in the long history of human existence. Going back only as far as our great grandparent’s generation privacy was relatively rare. And [...]
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Ethics, incompetence, and conspiracy
July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · ideas
Tweet The common thread between these items is the importance of communication. And it is the communication by leaders and managers within organisations that signifies to people what standards of thinking and behaviour are acceptable. This communication takes the form of spoken words, behaviours, gestures and also of absence, silence and looking away. Thus leaders [...]
Michelle Williams … Social Innovator
July 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · a woman in ..., inspiring women
Tweet One of the things that I’m fascinated by is how narrow our definition of success is sometimes. This is one of the reasons for this post. Michelle Williams is a woman who has taken a step back from the traditional definition of success and who seeks to broaden it. There is a new breed [...]
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Ownership, new ideas and openness
June 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · future, ideas
Tweet We see much discussion of the openness and collaborative nature of the web 2.0 world. However, many of the challenges facing us as a result of this new world relate to ownership of virtual goods. There are longstanding conventions that enable us to sort out who owns property in the real world and some [...]
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Company Directors conference 2010 – day 1
May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ideas
Tweet I’m lucky to be attending the Australian Institute of Company Directors 2010 conference DIRECTORSHIP:10 Ahead of the Curve in Christchurch this week. Sessions today included: Australia and New Zealand – performing in the global arena Is the current system broken? Challenges and opportunities in the global economy March to modernity – Asia tomorrow and [...]
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