Building up and breaking down silos Play
This book started during the great financial crisis of 2008. But it is not a book about finance. Far from it. Instead, it asks a basic question: Why…
The Problem with “Help” in Global Development
To move beyond good intentions, the development paradigm must shift toward collaboration, community involvement, and empowerment.
What’s Coming Next in Digital and Social in the Enterprise?
The result is, if you’re not currently dedicating a significant amount of time in some part of your organization researching what’s happening, the…
Getting Closer at the Company Party: Integration Experiences, Racial Dissimilarity, and Workplace Relationships
Using survey data from two distinct samples, we found that reported integration behaviors (e.g., attending company parties, discussing nonwork…
Friends at Work? Not So Much
ONCE, work was a major source of friendships. We took our families to company picnics and invited our colleagues over for dinner. Now, work is a more…
Why Being The Most Connected Is A Vanity Metric
A basic pattern of network science is clustering. People tend to gravitate to clusters for a lot of reasons whether it be working in the same company…
Why Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Few Americans today say they know their neighbors’ names, and far fewer report interacting with them on a daily basis. Pulling data from the General…
Quotes by Larry Page Google
“My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a meaningful impact and are…
Intrapeneurs
Intrapreneurs--people who build new ventures inside of a company--create billion dollar businesses for their companies, but they’re not rewarded like…
Lean Innovation Management — Making Corporate Innovation Work
I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives…