Rishi, Slack can be right for you. You just need the right tools and practices to focus your work.
Although Slack is positioned as a productivity tool, it becomes counterproductive when misused. Instant messaging applications enable communication that is online, synchronous and on-demand. This tends to be appropriate for interrupt-driven teams like those in customer service and sales. However, project-oriented teams tend to suffer from inundation. As a software developer in product development, I […]
10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Moving into Management
I went looking for a post to help someone decide if they should move into management, but couldn’t find one that I really loved. These three posts aren’t bad. Nor is this HBR article. But since I couldn’t find a post that I thought nails the spirit of the question, I thought I’d write one myself. […]
The Strategic Role of Digital Networks in Corporate Leadership Today
While there are a number of key factors that help organizations create important new types of business results using enterprise social networks or online communities, leadership is almost always at the top of the list. There is no avoiding the fact that what executives and middle managers actually do when it comes to leadership with […]
Flipboard Becomes an Enterprise Collaboration Tool, They Just Don’t Know it.
Flipboard launched a private magazine capability this week. With today’s release, there’s an exciting new way for people with shared interests to unite on Flipboard: private group magazines. Now you can collect stories together, and comment on them, in a closed setting. At Ping I used a Flipboard magazine to collect industry news along with […]
Unified Collaboration: How Social Business and Other Forms of Digital Engagement are Intertwining
The rich history of digital collaboration in the last 30 years has been a long and winding one. Fortunately, it’s also been a highly rewarding story that has led to literally historic advances in workforce productivity and efficiency for most organizations. Along the way, many of these advances have led to and made possible entirely […]
Tap Into Your Company’s Power of Digital Positivity
While I don’t support the use of covert methods to conduct employee or consumer research, I think the mass flip-out over Facebook’s recent experiment to dive deeper into the heads of its users overlooks some valuable takeaways for companies interested in promoting positive, supportive cultures. Quick recap: Facebook manipulated the News Feeds of nearly 700,000 unsuspecting users. […]
The Silent Brand
I have the unfortunate experience these days of riding the MetroNorth commuter railway into NYC every day. Its unfortunate because I have a schedule to keep — meetings, tele-conferences, etc.. you know, the usual stuff – but something that MetroNorth is hard pressed to do themselves — keep to a schedule. Further, the brand refuses […]
Strategic communications: From self-delusion to listening carefully
Conventional wisdom and research studies both say that communication is necessary to gain successful project outcomes. However, some (too many) executives use their public relations and communications departments as a megaphone to broadcast one-way directives in the name of “dialog.” This behavior represents self-delusion and not genuine communication. A Project Management Institute (PMI) study […]
Enterprise Social Networks, Building the Collaborative Enterprise
Tools that support social business initiatives fit into several different software categories / markets. Social business is a very broad term that includes all the enterprise social activities, internal and external. I find that often people understand a single perspective…
Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility
How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world. The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with […]
