Open Business – Page 25 – E L S U A ~ A blog by Luis Suarez

September 29, 2011September 29, 2011

IBM THINK Forum – Optimism, Outrageousness and Smart Sense-Making on Leadership

One of the topics that has been in my mind at the moment, within the context of the Social Enterprise, has been that one of Leadership and how, through the use of social software tools, we are now going through that rather exciting phase where traditional management / leadership, i.e. the hierarchical organisation, is starting … Continue reading IBM THINK Forum – Optimism, Outrageousness and Smart Sense-Making on Leadership

September 29, 2011September 29, 2011

Stop Online Harassment – Create Passionate Users

In the last few years there have been a good number of people, out there on the Social Web, who have come and gone and who have remained quite an inspiration for yours truly in helping shape up plenty of the ideas and thoughts I have been sharing over here, in this blog, over the … Continue reading Stop Online Harassment – Create Passionate Users

September 22, 2011September 22, 2011

IBM THINK Forum – Servanthood – A New Kind of Leadership

I am not sure whether you may have been watching in the last couple of days, one of those special events that I can surely guarantee you is going to help out redefine the whole concept of Management AND Leadership as we know it. As part of this year’s many worthy events around IBM’s Centennial … Continue reading IBM THINK Forum – Servanthood – A New Kind of Leadership

September 22, 2011September 22, 2011

Social Business Forum 2011 – Communities or Organisations – The New Collaboration Ecology

A couple of months back you would remember how I put together a couple of posts over here in this blog where I shared some of the highlights from the recent Social Business Forum 2011 event, which took place on June 8th in Milan, Italy. Well, a couple of weeks ago my good friends from … Continue reading Social Business Forum 2011 – Communities or Organisations – The New Collaboration Ecology

September 20, 2011January 24, 2012

Silence of Love and the Power of Storytelling

There are plenty of various different reasons as to why, for the last few years, I have been really excited about the emergence of social software tools within the corporate environment and beyond, but there is one in particular that keeps getting my attention, time and time again, as it has been helping bridge a … Continue reading Silence of Love and the Power of Storytelling

September 19, 2011September 19, 2011

How Playing Games at Work Can Help Boost Your Productivity

I am not sure whether folks may have noticed it, or not, but it surely looks like every couple of years, or so, we keep having an influx of articles, blog posts, mainstream media items, etc. etc. on how more and more businesses are continuing to block the use of social software tools inside of … Continue reading How Playing Games at Work Can Help Boost Your Productivity

September 16, 2011January 24, 2012

How the Social Enterprise Defines the 21st Century Workplace – Moving To The Edge

This is not the first, nor the second time, and I am sure there will be a third time, and many more!, at some point, that I have either heard or read about something that I would think would make pretty upset all of those folks who work on the Internet or with technology in … Continue reading How the Social Enterprise Defines the 21st Century Workplace – Moving To The Edge

September 14, 2011September 14, 2011

The Soft Skills of Collaboration and The Social Enterprise

Over at the BrainYard, my good friend, Rachel Happe, put together, just recently, a rather interesting and insightful blog post under the heading “Got Culture? Use It To Drive A Successful Social Business” where she comes to confirm what a whole bunch of us have been saying all along for a while now; that for … Continue reading The Soft Skills of Collaboration and The Social Enterprise

September 13, 2011September 13, 2011

Ira Glass on Storytelling and Creative Work

One of the reasons why I really, really, like the Social Web is because, every so often, you get to bump into those little gems that most folks don’t notice, but that when going through them you pretty much feel they are so special that you just can’t help but re-sharing it again, hoping that others … Continue reading Ira Glass on Storytelling and Creative Work

September 9, 2011January 24, 2012

Welcome to the Social Enterprise Awakening!

There is no doubt that this week will probably be remembered for a long while, in the Social Enterprise space, at least, as one that served as the tipping point of embracing a new dynamic within the corporate world that is slightly different than what we have been witnessing all along with Social Business in … Continue reading Welcome to the Social Enterprise Awakening!