Category: Culture & Competency

Time Management Ninja Blog

Craig writes about time management on the Time Management Ninja blog. He hasn’t written a book (yet), but there is gold in the blog posts. Here are a couple of posts I liked: – How to get everything done by doing 1 thing. It’s usually impossible to do […]

Intranets2011 Conference in Sydney (May 2011)

I’ve known for a while that James and team at Step Two Designs wanted to run an intranet-focused conference in Australia, and I’m delighted to see that they have pushed “go” for 2011. “Australia now has a fully-fledged conference for intranet practitioners. Produced by Step Two Designs, this […]

CCO or CCQ?

Morten Hansen and Scott Tapp asked recently, Who should be your Chief Collaboration Officer? “Companies need an executive responsible for integrating the enterprise — a Chief Collaboration Officer (CCO). Increasingly, companies are embracing collaboration as part of their strategy to grow, by cross-selling products to existing customers and […]

"There is no Excuse"

Two conversations over the past month have left me shaking my head in disbelief. Both represent situations where collaboration technology is generally (and cost-effectively) available to support the business activity being performed, and the organizations involved should be doing better than they are. The first conversation was with […]

Steven Johnson On Effective Meetings

Interesting analysis from Steven Johnson about the type of meetings that are effective vs. in-effective: “Well, that brings me to something in the book that bummed me out. You cite a study that observed science labs and found the breakthroughs happened more often during staff meetings than at […]