It’s fair to say that there’s been a huge amount written about Marissa Mayer’s decision to call people back to the office. The original memo is here. There’s a lot to be said about this, but I want to focus on a couple of things that haven’t been said. Smart People – Dumb Decisions? If [...]
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Look at pretty much any job specification for a project manager and you will see (in the UK at least) a requirement that candidates are PRINCE2 certified. For those not familiar with it, PRINCE2 is a UK government endorsed, project management methodology. It stands for PRojects IN Controlled Environments (see what they did there!) and [...]
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One of the phrases that sticks in my mind from the Internal Communications panel session at Social Media World Forum was from Andrew Barendrecht. Andrew talked about social in a business as a “Structured Revolution”. As a Collaboration Strategist at Apache Corp, he is introducing social technologies to solve some of the problems with transfer of [...]
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I had the privilege of speaking at The Social Media Workplace conference in London today. A well organised, wonderfully targeted event, looking at how Social Software can build the Social Workplace. Lots of conversations about how’s and why’s, without getting tied up in knots arguing about definitions. Here is my talk, inspired by what we’ve learnt [...]
Read MoreLast but one post on Likeminds, based on this interview by Mike McGrail of theBIGPartnership (@BigPartnership on twitter), where I talk about my keynote and a bit about Likeminds: Some of the key points The way that we engage with knowledge has changed. There is not a lot of ‘stuff’ that we don’t know, and as [...]
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