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This blog is a constellation of thoughts that resounded with me while surfing subjects as: Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, networks... I basically created it to make sense out of the rapidly changing environment in which every organization must evolve. Co

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Sunday musing: Networks are more than the sum of their nodes

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by KTVee I stumbled upon this fascinating video where Nicholas Christakis gives the example of the slim mold to affirm how "connecting to each other and assembling ourselves in networks creates a super organism with unexpected properties". Our networks are not the sum of their nodes, they exhibit a collective intelligence not available to each individual member!  Permalink | Leave a comment  

13 mai 2012 à 11:21:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

Snippet: Leveraging weak ties

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The people who truly succeed in business are the ones who actually have figured out how to mobilize people who are not their direct reports. Everyone can get their direct reports to work for them, but getting people who do not have to give you their time to engage and to support you and to want you to succeed is something that is sorely missing from B-school courses. ~New York Times,Oct.3, 2009. Business section Permalink | Leave a comment  

09 mai 2012 à 10:49:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

Social Media for NGOs

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Tapping into the power of social networks has become an imperative for all kind of organizations. And while for-profits seem to be joining the band wagon easily enough, non-profits and NGOs are yet to follow.  In an excellent initiative, the Moroccan UNCG (United Nations Communication Group) & the Social Media Club Casablanca organized a workshop dubbed "Social Media and MDGs" and I was invited to talk about Social Media for NGOs.   In the era of virtual activism, pro-consumers,

21 avril 2012 à 14:38:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

Sunday musing: The hyperconnectivity paradox

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Photo courtesy: .rexguo "We are living in an isolation that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors, and yet we have never been more accessible." This is the paradox of the hyper connected world we are living today. "Social media have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity we have never been lonelier." On a thought-provoking eye-opening article on The Atlantic, Stephen Marche lays down the dense body of research that have been

15 avril 2012 à 13:02:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

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In the future the power will be with the people who can funnel and share information and have relationships across the organization. In particular, the people who are the most networked with each other are privy to exclusive information—moreover, because of their cross-department relationships, they will be able to act quickly and decisively. The same will be true for people who can articulate, express, and interpret what is happening outside the organization and convince the people within of

30 mars 2012 à 16:28:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

Thinking networks for better teams

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by Tony Fischer Photography HBR insight center did a great coverage this week on the subject of "the secret of great teams". And I was particularly drawn by this article "Look beyond the team: it's about the network", by Jon R. Katzenbach, as it reflects what most people overlook: It's about the informal structure!  I've since recognized that it wasn't just the team of seven; they were drawing on a powerful internal network of around 50 people throughou

24 mars 2012 à 13:20:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

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“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.  3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

23 mars 2012 à 12:30:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

Sunday musing: The power of introverts

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At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer. One of the books I'm most excited about reading this y

18 mars 2012 à 13:09:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

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There is neither typical rhyme nor reason in these successes or failures—the size of the company, industry, or even prior experience with social technologies did not dictate the outcome. Instead, my research shows, the biggest indicator of success has been an open mind-set—the ability of leaders to let go of control at the right time, in the right place, and in the right amount. The first step is recognizing that you are not in control—your customers, employees, and partners are. If you are a

06 mars 2012 à 21:20:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

The promise of Social Network Analysis

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Photo courtesy of quinn.anya Here is a fact: Organizations are a set of interwoven networks, embedded in bigger networks. They thrive or die according to their networks' health. And while most organizations are aware of that, few ever act with a network-aware mind. A social network approach is primarily concerned with the interconnections between [actors], rather than being focused on their attributes or behaviors. The patterning of such connections - the configuration of positions and

01 mars 2012 à 18:21:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

Bookmarked! - Januray

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Photo courtesy of this lyre lark Strong processes, weak culture   Processes present a limitation in that they encourage what Jim Collins (in Built to Last), or Harvard Business Review’s Leading by Leveraging Culture , call a weak culture. The assumption is that teams are not aligned enough with business strategy, so it is necessary to put prescriptive processes in place to ensure for teams alignment. Operational units, i.e the team that will be using these processes on a daily basis even

04 février 2012 à 10:07:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

Sunday musing: Reinventing the reading experience

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In case you missed it, and I'm sure anyone hardly did, Apple decided to reinvent the textbook experience by "identifying transformative currents and building the right tools to navigate them"  iPadded textbooks are still textbooks, but they're personalized textbooks. They take advantage of the emotional connection people, and especially young people, feel to their devices. They encourage, rather than frown on, active note-taking. They demand, rather than curtail, exploration

29 janvier 2012 à 17:10:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

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The old model of the heroic superman is increasingly archaic. The most active and successful leaders today see themselves as part of the global community and peer groups. They listen as well as they speak. Never confuse charisma with leadership. The first job of a leader is to enable an organization to survive without him or her. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture.~Sam Palmisano's speech on IBM's 100th anniversary Permalink | Leave a comment  

20 janvier 2012 à 11:50:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

Power of networked teams

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Photo courtesy of 'PixelPlacebo' How can you divide the labor in your organization to optimize for innovation rather than efficiency? ~Dave Gray Networked workers are a critical asset for today's organizations. But in the end of the day, it does little good to be a networked worker if the organizational context will simply drive you back to ineffective patterns. In order for an organization to benefit of the power of its networked workers, it needs to instill a culture that sca

19 janvier 2012 à 21:38:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts

Sunday musing: Why I unplug

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I'm no better-never, I don't think technology is ruining our brain, life or whatnot. I truly believe though, that like anything else, it's our use of it that makes it the Good or the Villain. Sometimes it's actually the over-use of it that makes it the latter. As I was revisiting "Connected", I thought about  relearning to be disconnected and how I have failed to consider that sometimes the only way to appreciate something's value is by distancing oneself from

08 janvier 2012 à 22:32:00 Blog : Clattering Thoughts