How to be a social provocateur

As per Josh Bernoff, “Companies are like organisms with immune systems. If you’re a change agent, you’re the antigen. Your company wants to reject you, and it’s got lots of systems to block that – accounting systems, legal systems, management hierarchies, policies and procedures. Social applications and their champions run afoul of this all the [...]

Business, Social

Innovation at Google

Innovation for its own sake is useless. Period. And no one knows this better than the company who redefined the rules of information search. In this interesting 50 minute presentation, Google CIO Douglas Merrill tells us about innovation at Google. He highlights the importance of speed, the user experience, machine translation, defining innovation, relevance and [...]

Business, Innovation

Role of Power in Talent Management

James Surowiecki talks about the evolving role of power in a time when change comes fast and furious and technology-enabled, bottom-up innovation competes with our inherent desire to obey authority. About James Surowiecki: James Surowiecki is the foremost authority on how to harness the collective wisdom of your organization for competitive advantage. He has written [...]

Business, Talent