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Corporate Social Responsibility – An Opportunity For Business and Social Change

In a recent conversation with colleagues about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) the discussion turned to where that function should reside in an organization.  The question being asked was should it

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Developing Effective Organization Development Competencies

Recently a colleague asked, “What are the competencies required of a good Organization Development (OD) professional?”
Good? Kidding, I responded,  “Now there is a value judgment. What about effective?”
Later, giving

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New Developments About Human Empathy

New developments in neuroscience, psychology and human development indicate that many of our assumptions and beliefs about human behavior and emotions may be incomplete. The implications are that we have

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It’s Not Whether You Do Social Media, But How Well

The latest video from socialnomics.net is largely directed to advertisers, trends in communications are important harbingers for organizations as well. Consider how two-way communications made possible by the same

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How Protyping Validates Our Assumptions

The value of designing for change is that we can learn from our assumptions.  See how well executives do compared in kindergartners.

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Entering The Overwhelming World of Virtual Collaboration

How will you keep up with overwhelming sources of information and social media? Howard Rheingold of Stanford University in California reminds us that we need only sample the flow.  Fundamental

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Re-imagining Collaboration for a New Age

We have entered a new age. Large scale and complex change occurs suddenly and sometimes without much warning as in the 2009 economic crisis of the global economy. Virtual collaboration

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Five Essential Habits for Collaborative Teams

I’m often a bit suspicious of lists that promise “the answer” to complex questions. They are a bit like the rear view mirror that reminds us that things may appear

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New Tools for Change Inevitably Emergent

I’ve been making use of social media a lot lately to follow the work of people with whom I share common interests. I find the whole emergent nature

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What’s Changing About Change? Education For One Thing

A recent article on the blog site mashable.com, Twitter Professors: 18 People to Follow for a Real Time Education points to yet another way people are using Social Media.

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The Trust Model Is Dead, Now What?

In the late 1990s, I developed an institutional trust model for clients involved in online business transactions. These clients stake their livelihoods on the belief that mistrust is a natural

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The Time For Global Collaboration Has Come

In the last month I helped design and facilitated the world’s first real-time global collaboration on the subject of positive change.  This work excites me because as technology is providing

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Lessons from Real-time Virtual Collaboration – May 09

To view this slide show in a larger format click on menu and then click link to google docs.

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Did You Know?

So what? It’s a bit overwhelming, right?  Important information can be overwhelming, but the important question is more interesting how to harness this as power for collaboration for positive change.

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Wikis for Collaboration

Watch this video to learn about how wikis can be used to collaborate.

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