How does open source affect company culture?
An open source company is naturally a company that produces open source code for others to consume. But how does the notion of producing software code in the open affect company culture?
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Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer and Cleopatra–Women Leaders Groomed For Success
I’m reading a biography of Cleopatra and I’m learning some surprising facts about Egypt’s last queen. Cleopatra, who was known for her “wit” and…for being a “prankster,” outlived all of her brothers. In the book she is hailed as a “shrewd strategist and ingenious negotiator.” She was a woman who “reshaped the contours of the [...]
Changing the Molecules of the (Board)room
Every Monday night in a cozy Brown Stone on 39th street a group of New Yorkers congregate. I was once one of these New Yorkers. At exactly 6:15 PM I would climb on the small stage, strike my gavel and start the Toastmasters meeting: Good evening and welcome. The mission of our New York Toastmasters [...]
Failure Fridays
Someone very close to me is about to begin a very cool new gig. Its a role that most would love and in fact be envious of (I sure am – and will be blogging about it soon!). So this…
Oracle’s Influencer Relations: Mom Are We There Yet?
A fellow Enterprise Irregular posed this question to the EI’s relative to the maturity of the industry and the acceptance of bloggers @ Oracle Open World:Especially after the Workday session where 20 of us from small and large firms all…
Hubris
From Wikipedia: Hubris: extreme haughtiness or arrogance. Hubris often indicates being out of touch with reality and overestimating one’s own competence or capabilities, especially for people in positions of power. When I woke up this morning the word hubris popped into my mind (I also had the weirdest dream about overcoming hurdles but that’s for [...]
When Does Anonymous Idea Posting Make Sense?
Solid advice for any type of social software is that the greater the transparency, the greater the benefit. This means a bias toward making information available to all, not a few. It also means associating contributions to specific individuals. Visibility of contributors gives context, improves the quality of discussions and makes it easier to find [...]
Democracies Don’t Suffer Famines: Implications for Corporate Governance
In his keynote at the Spigit Customer Summit, Gary Hamel said that something that caught my attention: democracies don’t suffer famines. Hearing this, I was intrigued and did some research. Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, made this empirical observation: One of the remarkable facts in the terrible history of famine [...]
Recruiting by Video. Some Get It, Others Just Pretend
Since I just wrote a piece on how your Social Media participation is your new Resume, it’s only appropriate to look at the hiring side, on a lighter note this time. Both myself and Ben picked on a cool video produced as a side-project for Atlassian’s FedEx Day, which I’m sure becomes a perfect recruiting [...]
