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Mike Tobias: Feb 13, 2013 12:00:00 AM
You know this story….
You and your leadership team spend months putting together your yearly plan leading up to the start of your coming year through off-sites, conference calls, one-on-one meetings, cascading team meetings, summary meetings, draft...
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Mike Tobias: Jan 31, 2013 12:00:00 AM
If you think of the items we have outlined in the Noise section as symptoms, the Science-to-Business Gap should be classified as one of the diseases that causes these symptoms. I'll write about four other diseases in future posts (Sublinear...
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Mike Tobias: Oct 10, 2012 12:00:00 AM
It seems most technology intended for the enterprise is either being tagged with "social" or "collaboration" monikers these days. We understand the need to put new labels on things to grab attention, but both of these are being vastly overused and in...
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Mike Tobias: Jun 28, 2012 12:00:00 AM
Those who were fortunate enough to attend the MIXMashup, were treated to three general themes to start the day: The End of Hierarchy, The End of Bureaucracy, and The End of the Employee.
Terri Kelly from W.L. Gore tackled the End of Hierarchy (see my...
Mike Tobias: Apr 8, 2011 12:00:00 AM
I don't know Henry Mintzberg. I wish I did.
But I've read a bunch of his work and it resonates with me at a deep level for a host of reasons, but primarily because he sees enterprises as a collection of humans, not cogs of production. And secondly, he...
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Mike Tobias: Dec 20, 2010 12:00:00 AM
I work pretty hard at trying to manage my signal-to-noise ratio when it comes to social media. So I follow very few people and almost never check FB. But thanks to following Vinod Khosla on Twitter, I followed his link to a NY Times Magazine article ...
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Mike Tobias: Dec 1, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Enterprise ADD? What is that?
It's a term I made up. But I'm sure it isn't original (see Sutton's Law).
Enterprise ADD is the same condition as ADD (or ADHD) that we've heard about for years relating to people having a hard time concentrating (among...
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Mike Tobias: Nov 25, 2009 12:00:00 AM
...continued from Manhole 2 & 3 - Enterprise 2.0
Manhole 3: Picking the wrong change approach.
Olrlikowski and Hofman in subsequent research go on to state, "There is a discrepancy between how people think about technological change and how they...
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Mike Tobias: Nov 23, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Disclaimer: I apologize in advance. This post will undoubtedly tip you-off to the fact we've been working on web-based software for a while...since 1994 actually...so, we may sound a little less idealistic and wide-eyed than you might expect.;)]
It is...
Mike Tobias: Nov 23, 2009 12:00:00 AM
I love Pema Chodron's little book called Taking the Leap. I've read it a couple times now, and don't see myself stopping at that. Here's my favourite excerpt, (which you may have encountered before):
"There was a story that was widely circulated a few...