Building the Kingdom: Number 1s and Number 2s
Over the last week, there’s been some great discussion from our community on the post “Are you a King or a King-Maker?” First of all – thank you. The depth of discussion has been exceptional and a very clear display of people who are all committed to being king-makers. This post is in response to the comments and discussion, [...]
Are You A King, Or A King-Maker?
I wrote yesterday about my dear friend Trey Pennington who I described as a king-maker. People really liked the analogy of being a king or king-maker, which isn’t surprising - but I wonder how many people really are making kings? It’s far more rewarding, effective and exciting to be the king-maker, than trying to put yourself on [...]
People, Not Parts
The Dream Team – hanging out with some of the people at the Like Minds Summit 2010 at Bovey Castle. Around the end of the last year I wrote a series of posts on ‘free from the factory‘, in which we talked about the shift from an industrial economy to a knowledge economy, and the [...]
Preaching to the Converted?
You might have the feeling if you’re using Social Media that you’re preaching to the converted. I often do. Question: How many more case studies can we read? How many more times can the same common sense be reinterpreted in 5 different points? How many more summarises and digest emails can we look through for [...]
Times are Changing, Teams are Changing
I was at Exeter University on Wednesday listening to Professor John Bessant describe the difference between how innovation used to be, and how it is now. In the TV-industrial complex days, teams worked behind closed doors in order to hide their innovations. The rule was that a company had to have the smartest people working [...]
2010: Make Sense, Or Die
Everyone’s giving their predictions for 2010. Here’s mine: Make Sense Or Die. There’s too much content, both online and offline, for everyone to cohabit – meaning those that lack clarity will, by the end of 2010, die. Furthermore those who aren’t making sense probably don’t have much money left to continue not making any sense, [...]
Leadership and Management in Social Media
I’ve been thinking and writing for a little while now about the underlying concepts of Social Media – stuff that I keep on insisting to people are the ‘bigger concepts’ that are regardless of tools, much of which enters the realm of cultural and economic commentary. I started examining the change from an industrial economy [...]
The Reason Why Companies Don't 'Get It'
I was talking to Benjamin Ellis at #SMiB last Friday about the change in culture that is being accentuated by Social Media. Notice I say accentuated by Social Media – the change is not Social Media itself. Talking to Benjamin was a meeting of like minds and confirmed what I’ve been thinking for sometime: 100 [...]
Uniting People Around A Platform
If you don’t know, in exactly one week I will be running the inaugural Like Minds conference, on the subject of ‘measuring social media.’ I’m going to skip over the back story (which you can read here), and instead get to the point: Like Minds is an example of uniting people around a platform. And I’m [...]
