Business Culture, Collaboration, and Learning
The challenges organizations now face are too big for any of us to solve alone. Time to put collaborative tools into action, increasing mindshare and organizational advantage. This blog introduces people, resources, and strategies that generate repeatable value and shows you how to generate more energy than you consume. At work, in life, we are better together.
At the heart of my work is the deep belief software should work for people, not the other way around. This leads to the door of my dear friend Judee Humburg. We began working together over a decade ago. In 2001 she granted me an interview for a now defunct magazine. Her insights are as [...] Read more →
Numerous social media sites have witnessed explosive growth of their user bases in the last several years, but it’s a known fact that the type of user a site attracts varies greatly. Have you ever wondered which sites attract the most educated of social media users, or those that pull in the highest income? This [...] Read more →
Periodically I see something on a social network site that’s so compelling I want to share it with everyone — and hope everyone I share it with actually reads it. That seems unlikely but still worth every bit of effort. Today I stumbled across one of these sorts of gems. It’s a simple image that [...] Read more →
When my husband was leaving a long-time job, the exit interviewer asked if a different role would make him stay. He had envisioned one, but he didn’t mention it. He imagined himself outfitted with a piece of deadwood. When he found someone who no longer added value to their teammates or another part of the [...] Read more →
A CEO just asked me how to get his people under control. He believes he’s doing everything right so it must be his people who are all wrong. He reminds me of the teacher who prepares all summer and then come fall the wrong students arrive. Even those smart enough to rise to positions of [...] Read more →
Marcia Conner is an internationally recognized advisor to the world's largest organizations reinventing themselves and their workforce for the future.
