I recently stumbled across an interesting article by William Pasmore in Forbes titled “You Need A Leadership Strategy Now” which really got me thinking, especially his statement regarding change… Leading in an environment that is characterized by constrained resources, an uncertain and unpredictable economic environment and where competition is constantly increasing, is extremely challenging as [...]
Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
Change and Leadership Strategy
May 25th, 2010 
Steve 
Posted in Leadership 
Tags: change, collaboration, Decision making, Leadership, thoughts 
No Comments »Let’s Ditch The “Social” Part
April 11th, 2010 Steve Over the past year plus, I have been pushing for using Enterprise 2.0 capabilities to improve communications and collaborating. We have some basic problems with our internal folks and there understanding of these capabilities. Many understand them as “social” computing. This understanding clouds their judgement right off the bat. Social does not apply to work. Tried [...]
Command & Control vs Collaborative
January 20th, 2010 Steve I have struggled with this topic for quite some time. I have pretty much worked in 3 organizations all my life (2 large ones – US Army and Intel; 1 small – Myron’s Service Center). No one will argue that the military is anything but command and control… Oh, don’t get me wrong there is [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations Tags: change, collaboration, Leadership, social computing, social media, thoughts No Comments »E2.0 – My Short Summary (and Struggles)
November 5th, 2009 Steve I have spent the past 3 days attending the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, CA. Where I work, we like to sit back and assess where we are (and of course, we like to lead – wherever possible). I plan on posting my complete assessment of the conference in another post… But, first a [...]
Posted in Observations Tags: collaboration, communication, E2.0, fear, social computing, social media No Comments »Social Computing Inside the Enterprise
September 10th, 2009 Steve Plenty of stuff has been said about social computing, enterprise 2.0, web 2.0 – pick a name. Much of what you read and listen to is externally focused. The arguements come when you try to apply external tools and capabilities to inside the firewall. I posted a blog – months ago on “Why Managers Fear [...]
Posted in Observations Tags: challenges, change, collaboration, communication, social computing, social media No Comments »Social Media Arizona – The First
August 20th, 2009 Steve I was very fortunate to attend today’s first Social Media Arizona (the presentations have been uploaded just use the Recap) conference today. Fortunate for a few reasons. I have been following many of these people on Twitter and got to meet them in person. The topic (social media) is pretty near and dear to me. I [...]
Posted in Observations Tags: challenges, collaboration, communication, social computing 3 Comments »Time to Attack Another Distraction – Meetings
July 28th, 2009 Steve I feel that I have done a pretty good job of reducing my email overload and improved my communications within and outside my team. Currently, I feel that meetings are the largest distractor to a person’s productivity (especially mine). As I wrote before, the place of my employment are very meeting centric. We have meetings [...]
Posted in Observations Tags: change, coaching, collaboration, productivity, social computing No Comments »Power of Conversation
July 27th, 2009 Steve My work team has had a number of issues come up and we all are working hard to address what is happening. What I am amazed about is that when we all get together and talk – stuff happens. Simply put the power of conversation. Here are a few of the experiences with conversations: I continue [...]
Posted in Leading Teams, Observations Tags: coaching, collaboration, communication, Leading Teams, social computing 1 Comment »Three Techniques to Communicate More Effectively
July 17th, 2009 Steve We spend a lot of time in our jobs communicating with other people, whether it’s sending someone an e-mail or zapping them an instant message. Just because we have multiple channels of communication available to us, however, doesn’t mean we’re using them in the most efficient manner. Take me, for example. For the longest [...]
Posted in Leading Teams Tags: collaboration, communication, Leading Teams, productivity, social computing 2 Comments »Working Together
May 12th, 2009 Steve I have been thinking about my leadership series a bit lately and found that I really have not spent much time on the “leader” to” subordinate” relationship. I think there are many was that this relationship can fail, while the way to succeed is somewhat consistent. Success to me is fairly easy to describe: two [...]
