Progressive Organizational Movements

Are Your Social Business Systems Designed for Extraction or Contribution?

May 12, 2011

The move of social business systems into work organizations exacerbates a tension that’s built into every idea-intensive workplace. Idea-intensive workplaces ask employees to contribute not just the work of their bodies, but also the work of their minds and their hearts. These workplaces set up a tension between asking people to give of themselves as [...]

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Systems of Engagement: Technology for Social Organizations

April 13, 2011

“Systems of engagement.” Isn’t that an evocative term? The minute I read it, I knew that the term “systems of engagement” captured something important–but what? I searched the web, I even consulted Quora, but I found no definition of “systems of engagement” that incorporates all that the term evokes for me. So at the end [...]

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Why should I wait until 2057 for a ‘man-sized’ paycheck? Would you?

April 12, 2011

[I wrote this post for the 2009 Equal Pay Day... and I'm reposting it in 2011 because not much has changed. A few links have been updated. Be sure to check the links to some great research, too.] It’s possible that I won’t be around in 2057. If I am around, I probably won’t be [...]

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Recognizing Women On The Far Side of Complexity

April 6, 2011

I’m getting a bit weary of talking about “women” and having some people assume that I’m only talking about “women”. Recognize that when I use the term “women”, I am consciously talking about “women” on the far side of complexity. The Far Side of Complexity The “far side of complexity” is one of my favorite [...]

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Why Women DON’T Rule the Internet

March 24, 2011

TechCruch’s recent post Why Women Rule The Internet by Aileen Lee, and the interwebz response to it, is an exercise in wish fulfillment and diversion. With all due respect to Ms. Lee and her advocacy for women, social networking and shopping are not displays of power. I hate to break it to you, girlfriends, but we women [...]

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Use Extreme Leverage 2.0 to Change The Social World

March 11, 2011

Traditionally, extreme leverage is something organizations worked hard to avoid.   Now, in the social media landscape,  ”Extreme Leverage 2.0″ is something that evey organization should embrace. Why? Because Extreme Leverage 2.0 allows a few people, in relatively small businesses, to change the world for their stakeholders. Understanding Extreme Leverage 2.0 In the world of corporate finance, [...]

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CEO Daddies Won’t Close the Gender Wage Gap

March 8, 2011

The idea that CEO Daddies of Daughters will help us close the gender wage gap is completely misleading. This idea encourages us to buy into CEO Daddy “Feminism”, which is just another way to allow business men (and women) to avoid taking responsibility for gender equity in the workplace. When solid but small bits of research [...]

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She Should Talk At TED Twitter Campaign: F.A.Q.

March 6, 2011

The @SheTalksTED Twitter account has been busy this week, nominating over 350 influential women (and counting!) as possible speakers for future TED conferences. In addition to lots of suggestions, and support, we’ve also gotten some questions about the @SheTalksTED campaign. We hope that our answers, below, fill in the blanks. Please tweet us or send [...]

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Because Women Have “Ideas Worth Spreading” : TED2011 Action Steps

February 27, 2011

The 2011 TED conference begins Tuesday in Long Beach CA. Of the 55 folks who will present “Ideas worth Spreading”, 15 of these speakers will be women. That’s a whopping 27%… no improvement over previous years, and nowhere near gender parity. To celebrate the 15 Women who will take the TED stage, and to encourage [...]

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Social Media for Social Change — Inside the Organization?

February 15, 2011

This post is featured on Social Media Today. How has the activity of organizational change been changed, with the advent of social media? Back when I was an internal OD/Org Change manager in the Soap Plant, we spread ideas about change the old-fashioned ways: meetings, photocopied paper mail, and face-to-face conversations. With the rise of [...]

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