Why you shouldn’t subcontract social media communications
Hardly any organisation can get by nowadays without a presence in social channels, but many still feel uncomfortable about how to do it. Luckily, most have realised that it’s not just like pushing your...
View ArticlePersistent Team Chat, Merely a Gilded Reincarnation of Reply-to-All Email?
Persistent team chat has been the darling of the collaboration scene for a while now. The most prominent one being Slack, but also Atlassian HipChat, Cisco Spark, Microsoft Teams and now Watson...
View ArticleTo walk in the shoes of someone else, you first have to take off your own
Know your customer! Understand the user! Know your enemy! We’ve all heard these calls. To best be able to sell to customers what they really need and will appreciate, to design things that people will...
View ArticleThink of your employer as a distribution channel of You
Uneven relationships usually don’t work out well in the long run (at least not for both parties). That old truth holds water for romantic relationships as well as for between countries and….on the job...
View ArticleNever take the absence of a no for a yes
Sales people are taught to never take no for an answer. Consultants should be taught never to take the absence of a now as a yes. As a consultant, you don’t have any executive powers towards your...
View ArticleEffective webinars
In these times of coronainduced travel restrictions, I expect that remote meetings will surge. And that many will feel inexperienced and uncertain on how to make those meetings productive and positive,...
View ArticleProductive web meetings
In these times of coronainduced travel restrictions, I expect that remote meetings will surge. And that many will feel inexperienced and uncertain on how to make those meetings productive and positive,...
View ArticleProductive video conferences
In these times of coronainduced travel restrictions, I expect that remote meetings will surge. And that many will feel inexperienced and uncertain on how to make those meetings productive and positive,...
View ArticleProductive phone conferences
In these times of coronainduced travel restrictions, I expect that remote meetings will surge. And that many will feel inexperienced and uncertain on how to make those meetings productive and positive,...
View ArticleRealisation: Remote collaboration was the engine behind my engagement during...
It took me a year to get sufficient perspective of the fifteen years I spent with IBM to realise just how much of my engagement and energy had been generated from the transparent collaboration and...
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