CTO, CIO, CMO, CPO, C3PO?
The CIO and CTO titles have been around for a bit… And I can sympathise with that, after all IT used to be something magical hard-to-grasp stuff for many in the upper echelons of the organisations. And much of that…
Lessons from and for 21st Century Leaders
Last October, I had the honor of speaking at the 2012 Pivot Con, a conference hosted by my dear friend and key social influencer Brian Solis. This conference held annually, is an affordable laid-back event built around intellectual conversation, without some of the more recent attendant pretense of, say, TED. Its more of a social [...]
Social Business Beyond Kumbaya: How Enterasys Networks Strengthened Their Serve
I’m skeptical of the many promises social networks make of how their platforms will transform companies and the world easily. Colleagues and my own experiences in enterprises tell me the exact opposite. Change is very difficult, time-consuming and often the most expensive area of any enterprise software project. That’s the acid test I use when [...]
Roundup of CRM Forecasts and Market Estimates, 2012
Showing signs of growth through 2013 and beyond, the latest round of CRM forecasts illustrate how quickly behavioral and predictive analytics, greater usability, integration with social media and mobility are transforming this market. Even with the most usable, easily learned CRM systems, enterprises at times struggle with adoption rates however. That problem has venture capitalists [...]
“We” vs. “I”
“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame [...]
Let the managers go
Fire the managers and purge the language of the term “management”. Long live leaders and let everybody manage themselves. Most people manage themselves with great success: they manage to get out of bed in the morning, they manage to get dressed, they manage to get to the office on time. Then, at the office, they [...]
For Startups, Joel Spolsky’s Management Model is Mostly Wrong
I read with interest Joel Spolsky’s guest post over on A VC. It’s all about how he sees the hardcore command and control model as the wrong model for startups and that it has been wrongly emphasized by highly autocratic leaders like Steve Jobs. As an alternative, he advocates inverting the hierarchical pyramid so that [...]
Think Different
Yesterday afternoon, while live Tweeting Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s live streamed keynote from Oracle OpenWorld I saw a Tweet in my #oow11 stream saying that the AP had just reported that Steve Jobs had died. A quick search on Twitter…
Evidence vs. belief and enterprise software
Just recently “evidence vs belief based management” has been raised again, and that’s good, it should be in the forefront at all times if you ask me. The whole thing seems utterly unbelievable, the indisputable fact [sic] that hugely important decisions, decisions that impacts us all as employees, customers and shareholders are often made based [...]
Stifling growth? Challenge some assumptions!
McKinsey Quarterly has an article in their May edition – “Preparing your organization for growth” – that yet again reminds me about the total inability to ask the right question. Or question any assumptions at all. If you live in a small apartment with one bedroom and your wife becomes pregnant with triplets, what will [...]
