Hard work! Aligning organisational values and behaviour
Kate Carruthers Alignment of articulated and enacted values in business The issue of how well an organisation’s values align between what they say they are and what they actually do in practise…
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It’s real people and real communications
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…
Filesharing: copyright has always been a bit broken but we never noticed
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…
Some thoughts on women, management & work #wmwc
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…
Social media: blurring the boundaries
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…
Ethics, incompetence, and conspiracy
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…
Ownership, new ideas and openness
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…
Company Directors conference 2010 – day 1
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: A recurrent theme is the…
Time to drop the social and the media from our lexicon?
I was reading the article If Every Company is a Media Company…Then Who Owns Social Media? after seeing a Twitter conversation between @DesWalsh and @Trib. The article author, Don Bulmer,…
What do you work for?
Had an interesting conversation with some friends recently and it got me thinking about what we work for. In Western societies many of us work, in addition to money and…