Norman Schwarzkopf on leadership "Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." -- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Enterprise 2.0 Survey I'm doing some research on Enterprise 2.0 and need your help. You can help by answering a brief online survey. Click Here to take survey It would be very helpful if you could complete this online survey and also ask your friends and colleagues to as well.
Openness, personal and community action For those folks who don't think social networks are real life ... One of my Twitter buddies, @mspecht, has been very brave and open, sharing about his personal experience of depression that led him to take some positive action. He set up Blue Day 2008 and asked people to
(Untitled) "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its
Credit crisis and its impact on social media? I've been reading the new George Soros book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means . While Soros takes his usual pessimistic view he does have some interesting insights into the causes and consequences of the current credit crisis. Interestingly some
Risk & the Illusion of Centralized Control A key myth of modern business is that of centralized control in general and of brands, messages and media in particular. In the past, while it was possible for ordinary consumers to hijack brands and messages, it was too hard, time-consuming and expensive for anyone to bother. Thus companies
CMOs report reduction & shift in marketing spend to digital According to recent research by Epsilon "Chief Marketing Officers at many of the biggest brands in the nation [USA] are seeing a major shift in the marketing landscape. Almost two-thirds (63%) of the 175 marketing executives surveyed see an increase in their spending on interactive/digital marketing while