Where’s the margin in social media?

October 21, 2009

This is a guest blog post as part of the forthcoming Somesso conference on leveraging social media for the finance industry in Zurich where I’ll be speaking November 2nd and 3rd.
According to a data from Forbes, Altimeter and Visible Banking, only 5% of the world’s 100 largest hundred banks, 9% of the world’s largest diversified [...]

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What is leadership?

October 2, 2009

The internet disperses power, the consequence of which is that, as long as we have free will, intrinsic inspiration will trump external control. The social age requires association, rather than disassociation. That means we mustn’t forget leadership, we must reframe it. Leadership as talent development and creative vision can go a long way.

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What species development can teach social business design

September 16, 2009
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If attention’s a commercial currency, there is a value in being remarkable, in one way or another, if you can connect to an ecosystem that can support you.

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Re-tuning the returns

September 3, 2009

The creative potential of inter-relationships in social business will be at the heart of a new organizational effectiveness and new commercial return.

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Has paid for media had its chips?

August 31, 2009

Rupert Murdoch once famously quipped ‘nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste ofthe great British public’. public service has the capability to underpin seismic shifts with common sense, giving them a meaningful foundation that people can buy into. News International doesn’t see its purpose as this, it only computes the profit motive, and in days like these that is an issue.

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It’s business Jim but not as we know it

August 4, 2009

What does being a Visceral Business mean in a nutshell? Here’s the summary

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A bit of cognitive behavioural therapy is needed

July 7, 2009

There are some substantial social and cultural challenges to overcome in rebooting Britain as a socially inclusive and self-determinant state of substance and opportunity. We all need a bit of cognitive behavioural therapy, nation state, system and citizen together. It’s part of developing the kind of social intelligence awareness that collectively means we can make stuff happen.

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Business transformation in 3 easy parts on SOMESSO

June 26, 2009

Somesso have posted a three part article that contains a few ideas about business transformation.

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Moving to a task-based focus for organizations

June 25, 2009

Task-based perceptions of organization are less about a controlled brand promise pushed out from the centre, and more about a co-opted brand promise that collaboratively people focus towards being a part of. Corporate worth is increasingly shifting towards this and big meaningful and important tasks, make sense of that. They give people something to engage in.

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How we can recalibrate the notion of organization

June 12, 2009

When we recognize that the neurology and pathology of organizations are relevant to their
 development, then rapid, seamless, synaptic responses instead of slow, mechanical ones 
become a reality.

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