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I approach everything new with a particular recipe, a set of questions that get my mind around the task at hand. And even though you would believe that there are common answers to these questions, this is simply not the case.  When building your next strategy, I challenge you to ask your team and stakeholders these questions and close the gaps that you find between the answers. 

What is the goal?  Have you ever really made the rounds to your team members to get a true understanding of the goal they are trying to accomplish as a team?  Have you ever asked the same question of your client group and finance team?  You will likely get different and possibly conflicting answers from each of these groups of people, yet we as HR leaders are attempting to get all parties to achieve the same goal.  Get everyone looking at the same target, and you will be amazed at how quickly and effectively things happen....Read More Here!

from The Talent Economy

All last spring, most senior business leaders I met shrugged off the business applicability of Web 2.0. Allowing access to social networks in the workplace was something they were willing to consider only if it was absolutely necessary to keep younger employees from complaining. Twitter? What was that?

But by summer, the conversations I was having with senior executives about the use of these new technologies took on a very different tone. Recognition grew that 2.0 technologies could be used to change the way work gets done in fundamental ways. Interest in exploring these new ways of working, of sharing information, of collaborating to enhance productivity and meet business goals, was here.

Advances in our ability to communicate always change the way we live and work — the two are inextricably linked. The advent of writing facilitated the development of a complex, stratified Egyptian society as rulers were able to document their holdings and express their wishes; the printing press spurred democracy as information spread among the populace; the telex allowed the growth of major cities as headquarters became physically separated from the factories.