Category: Creating Authenticity
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Representing your organization on Twitter: A Logo or a Face?
What is the best way to represent an organization visually on social media like Twitter? On every social media platform, a participant can be represented by a username, screen name, or “handle” and also by a visual image. So along with choosing a good handle, an organization and/or its online representative needs to choose an…
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NewsFlash: Obama listens to the Engagement Experts
Either AuthenticOrganizations has very good timing, or the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation is very persuasive. Maybe both. It was announced today (May 11th) that the White House unit formerly known as The Office of Public Liaison is now:
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7 Core Principles for Authentic Engagement
Apologies to the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, but I’ve stolen your great presentation to the Obama Administration’s Open Government Directive group. I’m applying it to decision-making processes within authentic organizations…. Tell me how well you think it works. In previous posts about layoffs, alternatives to layoffs, and organizational decision-making processes, I’ve argued that…
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Local Heartbreak, bankruptcy style
Sometimes organizations fail, and you just don’t care that much. Other times organizations fail, and you wonder why you care SO much. It’s a failure in the second category that’s making me sad today. With Fountains of Wayne, Route 46 sustains its authenticity as the scenic route from the Hudson to the Delaware. Without Fountains…
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Raw Emotion, UnCooked Truth, and the Space Between “Fake” and “Real”
My colleagues at OrgTheory are celebrating the award of Guggenheim fellowships to some great sociologists, and they mention one of my favorites, Joshua Gamson. I was reminded of how much I enjoyed Gamson’s first book, Freaks Talk Back, because Gamson’s analysis of tabloid talk shows is laced with interesting questions and examples of strategic self-presentation…
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Tools for Authentic Organizations: Dotmocracy
The end of “business as usual” Please, let us be coming to the end of “business as usual”. Conversations about whether MBA programs caused the financial crisis and what the future of capitalism should be suggest that ways of doing business that have long been seen as acceptable and even admirable are now being…
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What Remains of “the Organization” at the Rocky Mountain News?
Organizations are always more than an efficient way to control collective efforts, more than the aggregate of their individual members, and more than the sum of their productive parts. We can put people together to do something, but that doesn’t make them an organization. Those of us who study organizations, and who of us who…
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The Only Harvard Business Review Article You Need to Read
Rarely am I inspired by the Harvard Business Review. Despite Harvard Business Review’s efforts to revamp their print edition (with a zippier format, hip graphics and bite-size summaries) and to expand their online initiatives, HBR has always felt behind the times. Even when HBR has addressed issues critical to my own research or summarized the…