Category: Leadership

  • The thrill and heartache of BlackBerry: employee perspectives

    Whether Canadian mobile technology company BlackBerry has a viable future or not is still a big unknown. The company fell from grace during this year as sales of its smartphones plummeted in the face of competition from Apple and Android…

  • The social networking workplace conundrum

    A conversation yesterday with someone whose employer blocks access to Facebook and other sites on the social web highlights a real conundrum with such bans, as Scott Adams perceptively illustrates in yesterday’s Dilbert comic strip. Many employers cite time-wasting as…

  • How to accelerate culture change

    Are you of the school of thought that changing organization culture is a complex, linear, time-consuming process, one that typically would take years to plan and execute? A process that requires courage to break down silos and is firmly a…

  • The difference between America and Europe

    Reshared post from The Economist: Today’s #Dailychart shows how entrepreneurship differs wildly among countries. America is an engine of innovation, as attested by the upcoming public listing of Twitter, which aims to fetch a cool $1 billion. How do other countries rank…

  • Talking social internal communication at #smwSMILE

    Social Media Week London starts next week, on Monday September 23. Hosted by Chinwag, the week-long event – part of the global SMW event taking place in eight cities around the world – features 245 individual events spread across London,…