Tensions among senior staff in universities seem to be making the news on a regular basis. Examples include leader strife at Rutgers (blame), Penn State (cascade failure to deal with a crime) and University of Virginia (abrupt leadership goings and comings.) Last year Forbes described the University of Virginia‘s Board of Visitors vote to unanimously reinstate [...]
Archive for the ‘Communities’ Category
Business Entrepreneur Storytelling at Entre-Slam with Deb
Entre-Slam is an entrepreneurial story telling competition held in Ann Arbor. Storytelling is powerful. This was also a great way to illustrate story-telling as important to change and communicating complex ideas, including my history in organization development. In my situation, this was a signal to myself to enter the speaking circuit. I also wanted to [...]
Messing up a Change Implementation with Someone Else’s Learning Culture?
Netflix culture and their lack of need for leadership development is SO attractive, like the siren song of Greek myth. It creates great press for Netflix, yet it is so un-duplicatable without the right staffing & culture values mix. Once again, culture trumps strategy every time. Helping culture to shift using smart, agile strategy [...]
Detroit & Vegas – A Tale of Two Cities as Our Comeback Kids
It’s always good to hear some good news about cities making a comeback. Looking at Detroit and Las Vegas is a great way to explore how cities can envision a brighter future for us all. View of the Detroit Renaissance Center from within the Detroit Athletic Club, 2012 In this case, Detroit makes a recent [...]
Open Space on Speed: Social Business with the Coaches, Results! Video
We had 10 minutes, and it was plenty to grab ahold of Social Media concepts for business. Using the theme of abundance, these professional coaches made it easy, using a new (to them) format of “Open Space Technology.” I was the facilitator of a session named: SOCIAL BUSINESS FOR CONNECTION, LIVELIHOOD and FUN for the [...]
Change, Innovators, Creativity and Community, Will it Blend?
As the technology age moves us along, innovation has been heralded as one of the few growth spaces left, and the power of community, think social media, is the other. Do they blend? Does creativity have a place in how this can happen? Enter change. It is important to keep change leadership and [...]
Joining Social Media Ecosystems, Learning the Ropes
Happy Social Media Day! It’s a great day to share learning about on-line communities. Pam covers the opportunities and challenges you may encounter in finding a good fit and taking right action in find the right relationships on-line, as well as the a social media culture & style that works for you. Twitter is also [...]
Oxymoron? No, it’s Conversation & Relationship, Mayo Clinic Innovation
On LinkedIn, I was intrigued to read a local, social media strategist’s question about whether a private social network is an oxymoron. Oxymoron?! More like sweet music to a process/change consultant that has sweated over years about how to best help leaders engage the passion and full potential of their organization’s talent. Social media is [...]
Towards Authentic Change Community, Help via a Social Media Audit
How does social media build real community? After being at the Future Midwest 2011 conference in Michigan, back-to-back with the consulting conference, the Association for Change Management Professionals, it seemed that putting change management and social media together, could create some pretty cool, change communities. …However…
The Difference between Management & Leading Change, Seth Godin
Leadership, what is it? Does it really exist, or is it really just another form of management, one that refrains from using implied power, as Peter Drucker has described it? This interview of Seth Godin features managing vs. leading, specifically leading change. Seth is a well-known speaker and social media author who writes about building community, [...]