What ‘not ready for prime-time’ means.

May 16, 2011

Have you ever asked “Why didn’t you share X with me/us?” and then heard the answer “Well, we were going to, but was not ready for prime time.”  Doesn’t that irk you?  What does this answer really mean? I observed this conversation pattern in two situations recently, so I figured I’d share my thoughts with [...]

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Internal culture shows you to everyone.

May 5, 2011

What happens on the inside gets seen by the outside.  You think there are walls protecting your privacy. I came across two examples of this in the past two days — and this inspired me to share this thought with you.  In both cases I realized that what you say behind the closed doors impacts [...]

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Becoming an Open Leader.

March 16, 2011

Two years ago I posted a short post that picked up from an HBR article on leadership flaws.  I posed the question if Enterprise 2.0 initiatives can thrive in environments where toxic leadership reigns.  My first reaction was no, and then I thought about ways to get to yes.  One of the flaws of flawed leadership [...]

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Who owns your intellectual creations?

February 28, 2011

Ask a software developer who writes code for a living, who owns the code she writes.  She will usually respond with an uncomfortable face.  On the one hand, many developers  feel ownership of their creations.  On the other hand, many have signed intellectual property agreements with their employer that basically says the company owns the [...]

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Happy Second Blogaversary.

February 25, 2011

It’s my second blogaversary. Over the past two years I have shared with you thoughts on the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace, as well as thoughts on Open Source, Personal Branding, and other random musings on technology, culture, and workplace behaviors. I have published 130 posts so far (averaging just over one post a week), and received well [...]

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Corporate Open Source Considerations.

January 12, 2011

Continuing the thoughts from my previous post on OpenWashing… If openness is so good, why don’t tech companies simply share all their software code?  Open Source is “a good thing” so why not opensource it all — going whole-hog?  I get asked this question every so often.  Funny, since I also get asked “Why would a company give anything [...]

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OpenWashing doesn’t really work.

January 6, 2011

Recently someone asked me about OpenWashing.  Let me share my thoughts here. OpenWashing is a derogatory term for companies who pretend to “do open source.”  (We’ll discuss what that could mean.) The term is related to WhiteWashing (censoring information in order to “fix” history) and GreenWashing (portraying your product to be more environmentally sensitive than it [...]

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