A good article about how Facebook is better than Twitter.
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/3-reasons-facebook-trumps-twitter-for-business/
Jul 7, 2010
Jul 3, 2010
Discover Your Leadership Blind Spots
Click HERE to read the original Businessweek article
Blind spots are not flaws; nor are they malicious. They are automatic behaviors. The real culprits are not the blind spots themselves. The problem is when they are unidentified and mismanaged.
In good times blind spots are annoying and frustrating; in tough times they can be lethal.
No one is immune to blind spots, of course. But leaders are particularly vulnerable.
Click HERE for the article.
Blind spots are not flaws; nor are they malicious. They are automatic behaviors. The real culprits are not the blind spots themselves. The problem is when they are unidentified and mismanaged.
In good times blind spots are annoying and frustrating; in tough times they can be lethal.
No one is immune to blind spots, of course. But leaders are particularly vulnerable.
Click HERE for the article.
Getting Executive Charisma
http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/apr2010/ca20100429_606003.htm
You look confident and comfortable in your own skin, which causes people to want to listen to what you have to say and offer.
Use aware actions:
• Deal with others as human being to human being, not role to role.
• Use good-natured humoring to break down barriers erected by titles, power, and position.
• Slow down your talk, walk, and movement to relax yourself and calm those around you.
• Shut up and listen. Focus on what others are saying, instead of thinking about what you're going to say next. Be a good listener even if you don't like what you hear.
• Ask questions as your main communication tool. You avoid being a know-it-all, and you let others be in the spotlight.
• Reach out and touch both literally and physically. Instead of a handshake, try a hand sandwich.
You look confident and comfortable in your own skin, which causes people to want to listen to what you have to say and offer.
Use aware actions:
• Deal with others as human being to human being, not role to role.
• Use good-natured humoring to break down barriers erected by titles, power, and position.
• Slow down your talk, walk, and movement to relax yourself and calm those around you.
• Shut up and listen. Focus on what others are saying, instead of thinking about what you're going to say next. Be a good listener even if you don't like what you hear.
• Ask questions as your main communication tool. You avoid being a know-it-all, and you let others be in the spotlight.
• Reach out and touch both literally and physically. Instead of a handshake, try a hand sandwich.
Building a Positive Workeforce
Great article about how to create a positive workforce:
"As leaders, we spend a lot of time hiring and retaining talent, reviewing metrics, examining competitors, setting strategy, and ensuring execution. These tasks are essential to success. But what's even more crucial is the attitude we bring to them. Negative mindsets limit possibilities from the very start. Positivity opens up a world of options and opportunities."
http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jun2010/ca2010068_804146.htm
"For those of us who believe we're too set in our ways to change our attitudes, there's some good news. As consultant David Rock wrote in the journal Strategy + Business, recent neuroscience research has found that "the human brain is highly plastic. Neural connections can be reformed, new behaviors can be learned, and even the most entrenched behaviors can be modified at any age." This is consistent with our own research and practical experience at the Center for Creative Leadership, where we've found that leaders are in fact made, rather than born, and that they can keep improving throughout their entire careers, provided they're willing to make the effort.
So it's very possible for people to change and become more effective professionals in the process. But, as leaders, how do we encourage them to do it? We should, of course, start with ourselves. Based on her research, Fredrickson recommends we try to experience positive emotions in a 3-to-1 ratio with negative ones. That's the tipping point, she says, at which our overall ability to see new possibilities and overcome challenges starts to grow exponentially. Her research shows that only 20 percent of Americans actually achieve that ratio on a regular basis. (You can take her quick test to see if you're one of them.)"
Four ways of building a positive workforce:
1) Express appreciation.
2) Encourage fitness.
3) Focus on teams.
4) Give skepticism its due.
"As leaders, we spend a lot of time hiring and retaining talent, reviewing metrics, examining competitors, setting strategy, and ensuring execution. These tasks are essential to success. But what's even more crucial is the attitude we bring to them. Negative mindsets limit possibilities from the very start. Positivity opens up a world of options and opportunities."
http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jun2010/ca2010068_804146.htm
"For those of us who believe we're too set in our ways to change our attitudes, there's some good news. As consultant David Rock wrote in the journal Strategy + Business, recent neuroscience research has found that "the human brain is highly plastic. Neural connections can be reformed, new behaviors can be learned, and even the most entrenched behaviors can be modified at any age." This is consistent with our own research and practical experience at the Center for Creative Leadership, where we've found that leaders are in fact made, rather than born, and that they can keep improving throughout their entire careers, provided they're willing to make the effort.
So it's very possible for people to change and become more effective professionals in the process. But, as leaders, how do we encourage them to do it? We should, of course, start with ourselves. Based on her research, Fredrickson recommends we try to experience positive emotions in a 3-to-1 ratio with negative ones. That's the tipping point, she says, at which our overall ability to see new possibilities and overcome challenges starts to grow exponentially. Her research shows that only 20 percent of Americans actually achieve that ratio on a regular basis. (You can take her quick test to see if you're one of them.)"
Four ways of building a positive workforce:
1) Express appreciation.
2) Encourage fitness.
3) Focus on teams.
4) Give skepticism its due.
Skepticism is a crucial counterpoint to positivity, and it's not the same thing as negativity, which destroys rather than nurtures
Jul 1, 2010
Jun 7, 2010
Cross-Media Case Study: God, Family, Football, and Facebook
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=127544
Mobile Social Graph: From MocoSpace
Mocospace release The Mobile Social Graph.
Not much of the data comes as a surprise. Click here to download.
Here are the top level trends: (courtesy: http://www.adotas.com/2010/06/mobile-social-android-growth-iphone-lust/)
* Android traffic increased by almost 40% in Q1.
* Traditional feature phone usage dropped by 22% in Q1.
* Mobile users log in 1.85 times as often as PC users.
* iPhone and Android sessions are 28% longer than feature phone sessions.
* iPhone and Android users over-index 72% on purchasing virtual currency.
* Courtesy: http://www.jnjmobile.com/report/
Not much of the data comes as a surprise. Click here to download.
Here are the top level trends: (courtesy: http://www.adotas.com/2010/06/mobile-social-android-growth-iphone-lust/)
* Android traffic increased by almost 40% in Q1.
* Traditional feature phone usage dropped by 22% in Q1.
* Mobile users log in 1.85 times as often as PC users.
* iPhone and Android sessions are 28% longer than feature phone sessions.
* iPhone and Android users over-index 72% on purchasing virtual currency.
* Courtesy: http://www.jnjmobile.com/report/
Jun 4, 2010
What a Leader Should Do, Along with Many other Things...
What a leader should BE doing:
1) say the truth and
2) know when to STOP talking about the problem and actually fix it
Read this to find out what a leader should NOT do
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/us/04image.html?th&emc=th
1) say the truth and
2) know when to STOP talking about the problem and actually fix it
Read this to find out what a leader should NOT do
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/us/04image.html?th&emc=th
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