What is it with billionaires these days? Buffett suggesting we need to tax him more? Stop coddling the super-rich he says. In other words, he’s saying “I’ve done such a fine job with my money, now I want to give more to a government that hasn’t.” Mr. Buffett, has someone changed your suppositions? It seems counter intuitive to your “invest in great management” philosophy. Shouldn’t you really be telling the government ...
We were able to assemble a powerful cast of experts to give the rest of us advice on becoming a Social Business. But we did it with one catch. We asked these 9 experts to do it in under 60 seconds. Thank you Robert Lavigne for essentially doing all of the video, post production and graphics for these 9 videos. He’s a phenomenal person. The Video is interactive. Meaning you can click on the profiles in the video in order to see ...
There are others with more followers, others with more Klout, others that tweet more, others that have written a book. Others that are more popular, others with more buzz, others that run bigger communities and others with larger networks. But none that have a multi-channel, multi-category social dominance like Tristan Bishop. If you only followed Tristan Bishop, then you’d have a deep appreciation of Social Business . If you only followed ...
Social Business adoption is becoming a major issue in companies that are just starting to use social solutions from SharePoint, Jive, and Moxie. But it gets worse with social solutions. According to Forrester Research, only 8% of end users working in companies that have implemented enterprise social networks use those social software tools. Yet there are companies with successful deployments and high adoption of Social Business solutions. ...
There are a few sensations in life that manage to thrust us into action, or provoke us to work without a motive. Sensations so powerful that we fall victim to a form of altruistic amnesia. We’re driven by its hidden motivational forces and we forget the benefits are for someone else. In short, neither lack of advantage nor lack of compensation deter us. What sensation propels people to write a ten paragraph review on Amazon? What force is acting ...
There are executives who are social and there are executives who are anti-social. There are executives who do social well and executives that don’t. Some claim to be leading social organizations, and there are those that boast that they are not. There are executives who have thousands of followers, and there are executives that have none. There are social executives that say, “Trust me” or “Admire me,” that tweet, “Believe me” ...
Zuckerberg is a man so certain of the success of his quest that he can afford to ignore the latest attempt by Google to disrupt the social space. He displays a confidence similar to a card shark who has devoted a prodigious effort in studying every possible move by his competitors. And who now feels safe with the knowledge that every card is marked. This type of naive fiction has worked in the past, and it may work still. But ...
Marc Benioff may think that SharePoint belongs in your Grandmother’s attic because he has not seen Colliers International site. For that matter, he probably has not seen a lot of SharePoint Social sites. The first time I remember hearing the terms ‘social’ and SharePoint in the same sentence was when I was being asked to attend a business sponsored charity event. “Please RSVP on the SharePoint Wiki”, the email read, but instead of calling ...
“What the heck are you doing?” Yet the language was probably a little more colorful. Three days after the launch of Chief Blogger Lionel Menchaca’s blog, all hell broke loose. Several people within Dell were upset with him for linking to Engadget story about exploding laptops. But Menchaca wasn’t worried about being fired. He had the support of Michael Dell and Vice President of Corporate Group Communications, Bob Pearson. Just ...
The term “Social” followed by any noun is exploding into the business lexicon. And it’s beginning to feel like the fairy tale that was the dot com era. Fueled by the Viagra of VC cash, many start-ups had enormous capital, enormous confidence and stiff valuations to match. The motto "get big fast" was the prescribed strategy. But you know how the fairy tale ended. Dotcoms became increasingly impotent, investor confidence ...
