All about Authenticity – Page 6 – Authentic Organizations

Representing your organization on Twitter: A Logo or a Face?

Jul 7, 2009

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in Brand(ing):Inside & Outside, Creating Authenticity, Employees/Individuals, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

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…

Resources for Authenticity: Being vs. Understanding

Jun 30, 2009

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in Brand(ing):Inside & Outside, Business & Mgmt Education, Claims vs. Behaviors, Diversity & Feminism, Employees/Individuals, Great Examples, Organizational Design

What resources can organizations draw on to create and sustain an authentic sense of “who they are”? My class with the Darden EMBA students on Saturday danced around the questions of “How do organizations ‘source’ their identity? and “How do organizations sustain their authenticity?” Even though we had a chance to discuss many other issues…

Brandividual In Action: Follow @cbarger to watch General Motors transform

Jun 2, 2009

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in Brand(ing):Inside & Outside, Employees/Individuals, Great Examples

Here’s your chance to see someone in the brandividual role taking action, over time, in the face of a big challenge. When I gave my talk about The Rise of Brandividuals at last week’s Corporate Reputation Conference, I used the example (well-known in social media circles) of @scottmonty of Ford Motor Company to illustrate what…

NewsFlash: Obama listens to the Engagement Experts

May 11, 2009

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in Creating Authenticity, Great Examples, Leading for Authenticity, Organizational Design, Politics, Progressive Organizational Movements

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:

7 Core Principles for Authentic Engagement

May 11, 2009

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in Creating Authenticity, Employees/Individuals, Leading for Authenticity, Organizational Design

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…

Leading Authentically with Transparency: An interview/podcast with Paul Levy

Apr 27, 2009

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in Employees/Individuals, Great Examples, Leading for Authenticity

Here’s a neat podcast interview with Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, whose leadership approach to the need for dramatic cost-cutting we considered in the post Finding a leadership opportunity in alternatives to layoffs. This podcast interview offers a few additional insights, in part because the interviewer Catherine Bell asks some smart…

Local Heartbreak, bankruptcy style

Apr 24, 2009

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in Creating Authenticity

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…

Raw Emotion, UnCooked Truth, and the Space Between “Fake” and “Real”

Apr 14, 2009

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in Authentic or Not?, Creating Authenticity, Rants Raves Ramblings & Reflections, Research & Science

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…

Tools for Authentic Organizations: Dotmocracy

Mar 23, 2009

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in Claims vs. Behaviors, Creating Authenticity, Diversity & Feminism, Employees/Individuals, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Great Examples, Organizational Design

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…

7 Tips for Rendering Authenticity Through Social Media

Mar 12, 2009

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in Authentic or Not?, Brand(ing):Inside & Outside, Creating Authenticity, Image & Reputation, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

As part of a presentation I’m giving on “Rendering Authenticity Through Social Media, ” I’ve been distilling advice for from around the online conversation on how organizations can use social media to present themselves authentically. The audience will be a group of managers (practitioners, not professors) who are not themselves directly responsible for social media…

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