A blog about working smarter, not necessarily harder, through social networking, digital technologies
One of my favourite topics du jour is that one of the Future of Work and, more specifically, how the world of Social Networking is helping redefine it by provoking one of the most profound business transformations we have lived through in our entire history. But then again work, per se, is a whole lot more than … Continue reading Business Can’t Succeed in a World That’s Failing
If you would remember, I finished last Friday’s blog post with an inspiring and rather revealing quote that is still lingering in the back of my mind. More than anything else, because of how much it means in helping us all transform the corporate business world from what we have known and experienced over the … Continue reading Restoring the Human in Humanity by Simon Sinek
I am certain that if I were to ask you to name your Top 10 most inspiring thought leaders and thinkers on whatever the discipline out there, I would say there would be one or two that may come up on every single list and I would venture to state that probably one of those … Continue reading Racing to the Top Where Corporations Are People
As you may have noticed from my social networking activities from last week, I decided to take a few days off, with the summer holidays, and head over to mainland Spain, to visit my family in León, where I was born and raised many moons ago. Although I’m from a small town nearby, this time … Continue reading Great Products Don’t Need Customer Service – “La Bicha”
At a time of a tremendous amount of incredible positives and incredible negatives, mixed all along with a huge sense of urgent uncertainty as to what’s going to happen next, one cannot, but truly appreciate how the world of the Social Web is changing us as a society, never mind the corporate world altogether, making us … Continue reading Make the World Better (Ask If Anyone Minds Later) by Dr. Pamela Gay
Back in 2003, Bill French coined the now rather popular quote “eMail is where knowledge goes to die” that’s been making the rounds all along and which over 4 years ago I decided to adopt myself (Or kindly steal, errr, I mean, reuse, if you would want to call it that way), as part of that new … Continue reading Twitter Is Where Conversations Go To Die
A few days back, my good friend, Bertrand Duperrin, put together a rather interesting and intriguing blog post under the suggestive heading “Employees don’t have time to waste narrating their work” where he shared some very thoughtful insights on the potential burdens behind the whole concept of narrate your work, working out loud or observable … Continue reading How Narrating Your Work Helps You Become More Effective by Saving Precious Time
I have been in the IT industry for well over 15 years now and for a good number of them I have been relying on multiple different systems. One of them being Windows. Fast forward to today, and as most folks out there would know, if you have been following me on any of the … Continue reading Power Shift – People Running Companies by Apple?
Over the course of the last couple of years I have developed that habit of watching the recordings of the presentations that I give myself at public speaking events. Not because of having such a huge ego that I would want to see what I looked like or whatever else, but more than anything else, … Continue reading Good Presentations Matter to Rock an Audience
In a rather insightful blog post (“Fear of Freedom“) my good friend Euan Semple quotes: “Our old worlds of corporate stability are crumbling – the job for life, status and authority from a fixed place in the hierarchy, individual certainty at the price of loss of soul. Many feel at sea and unsure of how … Continue reading Dare to Disagree through Critical Thinking
