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Echo between the conferences.

by Gil Yehuda on November 9, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


I was not able to attend the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week.  I really missed it and wished I was there.  So much so that I was a bit reluctant to follow the tweet stream.  Seriously.  It’s just not the same as being there in person.  Sorry, but face-to-face meetings really do beat [...]

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Odd Couple: Trust and Social Media.

by Gil Yehuda on October 30, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


Last week I attended a fascinating event in Manhattan called “The Trust Summit Breakfast”.  It featured two pairs of authors who collaborated on two business books on the topic of Trust.  Specifically: Charles H Green and David Maister, co-authors of The Trusted Advisor (with Rob Galford). And Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, co-authors of Trust Agents.  Both are considered must-read books.  I [...]

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Managers: nudge, not noodge.

by Gil Yehuda on August 5, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


A nudge is a gentle push to improve behavior. Your spouse nudges you under the table when your dinner-party conversation begins to drift into “don’t go there” territory. This differs from being a noodge– a Yiddish expression for someone who is a constant nag. Inexperienced managers can be noodges.  Nudging is the art of subtly influencing [...]

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Getting off the email hamster wheel.

by Gil Yehuda on July 24, 2009

in Enterprise 2.0


Are you a knowledge worker?  If so, let me ask you this — what if you could fix the way email and meetings have taken over your workday? Emails and meetings are the two biggest killers of workplace productivity; and yet they are two of the most essential tools to the workplace. For fun, I asked [...]

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