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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]