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Networks and The Myth of Flattening Organizations

January 14, 2010

Tweet I was excited to hear from a few social media/Enterprise 2.0 advocates after my post last week asking When will social business become social change business? Special thanks to Jon Husband of Wirearchy, who not only confirmed that he has a revolutionary agenda behind his networked models of organizing but who also sent me […]

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Practicing Work Life Fit at Christmas

December 19, 2009

Tweet So I’m having one of those really rough mornings, the kind that make you realize you have to rethink the whole life project, and it’s not even 7 a.m. yet. What’s going on? DH came home from work to start vacation, and is completely, totally sick. Mom-in-law and stove repairperson scheduled to arrive at […]

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A Job Crafting Example: The Pink Glove Dance

December 8, 2009

Tweet Here’s a real life example of Job Crafting: The Pink Glove Dance. You may already have seen this video of The Pink Glove Dance, which was created by hospital staffers to raise awareness about breast cancer. I know that as soon as the music started, I thought it would be just like that now-famous […]

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Meeting Gary Vaynerchuk

November 10, 2009

Tweet There are 3 things that really seem to validate a blogger: 1. Creating a s*&#%storm Breaking a controversial story and getting tens of thousands of new visitors and dozens of trolls to your blog, 2. Going to a blog insiders’ conference like BlogHer and having people recognize your blog, and 3. Meeting Gary Vaynerchuk. […]

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Beyond an Online Dress Code: A ‘Look Code’ for Work Avatars & Employee Branding

November 3, 2009

Tweet We need to go beyond dress codes and consider “Look Codes” for the work avatars that employees use online. Online look codes will help employees translate the qualities of their organization’s brand into the avatars they create for themselves. Organizations should care about their members’ work avatars because these avatars are representing the organization, […]

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Walmart vs Girl Scouts: South Carolina Walmart Store bans Fundraisers

September 26, 2009

Tweet When I got an email last month from a reader who wanted me to know that some Wal-marts in Arizona had forbidden ceased to allow Girls Scout Troops to set up cookie selling booths in front of their stores, I didn’t believe it. “What a dumb move,” I thought. “There’s no way this could […]

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Attack of the TPS Report

May 21, 2009

Tweet From Time Magazine’s photo essay on workplace hijinks. Attack of the TPS Report There’s gotta be some flair in there, somewhere.

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Six Paradoxes of Leadership in a Crisis: Even more true now

April 6, 2009

Tweet “The most threatening circumstances can be experienced as the most highly motivating if, and this is a very big if, the purposes which we serve feel significant enough to the organization’s members.” Looking over research on “leadership during crisis”, I was reading the report “Raising The Stakes or Finally Seeing Them Clearly?: Balanced Leadership […]

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Soccer in 16 Words

April 1, 2009

Tweet Remember– this is for 8 year olds! The goal is to simplify and clarify what you do once you have the ball, depending on your assigned role. The bolded words are the words I’ve asked the girls to learn and use. So, without further ado: Soccer in 16 Words Strikers: Center & Score! Midfielders: […]

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Photo Essay: 1,000 words on the loss of the Rocky Mountain News

March 9, 2009

Tweet From Joe Murphy, on Flickr

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