As I’ve shared here before, about a week ago I participated in the Social Now event where I got the opportunity to finally meet face-to-face Stowe Boyd, one of the best thinkers about the future of businesses and work. Stowe did the closing keynote of the event and if you want a summary & tweetable … Continue reading »
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Reflections after Social Now: incremental or transformational?
Another year, another invitation to participate in the experts panel at Social Now, another great opportunity to meet smart people and discuss the future of businesses and work. This pretty much sums up the last few days I’ve spent in Lisbon at the event organised by my friend, and “gardener of change”, Ana Neves. With … Continue reading »
Social Learning in Organizations and the role of HR
I’ve been following Harold Jarche’s writing since mid 2012. I’d come across his Twitter handle some times in my timeline, through my network’s retweets, but it was only after someone I admire recommending him that I started paying more attention to his work. When Harold tweeted this week that he would be conducting a free … Continue reading »
The importance of digital literacy in social tools adoption
(updated in the afternoon of the 2nd Feb. 2013 as I remembered an interesting element from the Apollo Research institute on the future of work and a manifesto from the European Union on e-skills. New update on the 11th Feb. 2013 to include links to relevant material from Stowe Boyd and McKinsey Quarterly) I wanted … Continue reading »
Is the future of organizations individual disruption?
June was packed with interesting and inspiring conversations. Social Business Forum 2012, Switch Conference and Social Now provided the venues for meeting for the first time, or encountering again, some very smart folks. Themes range from social business, the future of organizations and work to life, goals, books, communities and challenges. In many cases, the … Continue reading »
Change agents at the office!
The concept is not new but maybe you have never heard of it. I’ve been musing about it for some time now. In fact, this is a long overdue post! I remember it coming back to my mind when reading The Power of Pull… Continue reading »
Social media and businesses: not there yet
Picture this: you find yourself talking to a group of young professionals (30yrs old at most), the majority from the HR areas and some from Communication, about social media and businesses. At some point they suggest a social media presence for a company brand as “restrictive” as possible, just to create some awareness but low … Continue reading »
Book review: The Power of Pull
In an era still pretty much dominated by push – managers push tasks onto employees, brands push messages and products onto consumers… – John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison invite us to change our perspectives and embrace the power of pull in their recent book “The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, … Continue reading »
The future of work vision by Podio
There’s ample debate today around the need for a change in the way we work and how the future of work will look like. The reasons for this topic to be increasingly talked of usually come to reasons such as: the tools we currently use fail to really help us get work done in a … Continue reading »
Book review: The Cluetrain Manifesto
And there it is: I finally read The Cluetrain Manifesto! It was on the top of my reading list for ages but somehow other readings always seemed to step in the way. The final trigger I guess came when a couple of months ago I attended Dachis Social Business Summit in London and JP Rangaswami, … Continue reading »
