Organizational Change – Authentic Organizations

“Add Women and Stir” Won’t Keep Women In Tech

May 16, 2012

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in Diversity & Feminism, Organizational Change, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Technology Management

How do we get and keep more women in technology-related careers? How do we increase the number of women creators, makers, designers, and coders? Why not just add more women to the mix, and go from there? When all we do is “add women and stir”, without simultaneously and deliberately changing that system, we aren’t going to succeed.…

Growing Social: 4 Different Paths to Social Organizations

Oct 26, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Generative Orgs, Organizational Change, Organizational Identity, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Uncategorized

Organizations can ‘grow social’ through 4 different paths, driven by technology, social business, collective values, and ‘product’ resonance. Two of these paths are more likely than the others to create organizations that are authentically social. Can you guess which two, and why?

4 Reasons Why Socializing Your Intranet Makes Organizational Change Easier

Aug 3, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Organizational Change, Organizational Identity, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0, Uncategorized

You can make the process of becoming a Social Organization a little easier if you start by socializing your intranet. Why? Because the shared, cohering nature of your intranet makes ‘social’ change efforts more comprehensive, more democratic, less scary, and more reinforcing of collective identity. In my previous post, I argue that we should develop…

Social Organizations from the Inside Out: Start with Your Intranet

Jul 27, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, Employees/Individuals, Organizational Change, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

What’s the best strategy for making your organization more social? Where do you start to transform your systems, so that you can transform your organization? Many social media experts suggest that you work from the outside-in. They encourage organizations to start with one function and one stakeholder group, and ‘get social’ by linking CRM (customer…

Are Your Social Business Systems Designed for Extraction or Contribution?

May 12, 2011

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cv harquail

in Organizational Change, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

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…

How Social Media Affects the Organization Itself: Post Roundup

Apr 18, 2011

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, All about Authenticity, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

What are we learning as we watch (and help) social media, consumer-outreach -style tools, make their way into the organization? We’re learning that this phenomenon can be understood from a wide range of disparate perspectives, which don’t necessarily see eye-to-eye. At least not yet. Still, I’m anticipating a convergence among perspectives that will create a…

Use Extreme Leverage 2.0 to Change The Social World

Mar 11, 2011

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in Employees/Individuals, Organizational Change, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

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,…

Social Media for Social Change — Inside the Organization?

Feb 15, 2011

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cv harquail

in Leading for Authenticity, Organizational Change, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

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…

Facebook for Women vs. Facebook Designed by Feminists: Different vs. Revolutionary

Oct 5, 2010

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cv harquail

in Diversity & Feminism, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Organizational Design, Politics, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

What would Facebook be like if it were designed by women? In my earlier post, I proposed that Facebook would look, feel and function differently if it had been designed by “women”. [What I actually was writing about what what Facebook might look like if it had been designed by Feminists– but I used “women”…

Is your organization flourishing or withering?

Sep 22, 2010

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in Diversity & Feminism, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Organizational Change, Politics, Progressive Organizational Movements, Sustainability & Greening, Uncategorized, Work-Life-Meaning

Organizations are organic things — they are born, they die, they suffer and they thrive. But very few organizations flourish. Organizations that flourish are rare creatures. We find them where business goals are tied to larger purpose, where larger purpose is linked to community needs, and where individuals’ authentic selves are nourished by and engaged…

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