Curing the Common Cold of Leadership: Poor Listening. The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems - Rosabeth Moss Kanter. By Rosabeth Moss Kanter | 9:00 AM April 10, 2013 Lurking behind the question of jobs — whether there are enough of them, how hard we should work at them, and what kind the future will bring — is a major problem of job engagement.
Too many people are tuned out, turned off, or ready to leave. But there’s one striking exception. The happiest people I know are dedicated to dealing with the most difficult problems. Turning around inner city schools. Ellen Goodman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (and long-time friend), has turned grief to social purpose. Gilberto Dimenstein, another writer-turned-activist in Brazil, spreads happiness through social entrepreneurship. For many social entrepreneurs, happiness comes from the feeling they are making a difference. I see that same spirit in business teams creating new initiatives that they believe in. In research for my book Evolve! People can be inspired to meet stretch goals and tackle impossible challenges if they care about the outcome. Introducing the New LinkedIn Contacts. Social Readiness: How Advanced Companies Prepare.
Interview on Research on Value of Visual Practice. Rock the Monkey: RESEARCHING the VALUE of VISUAL PRACTICE with HEIDI FORBES ÖSTE | Alphachimp University. When we launched the Rockstar Scribe course in May of 2011, we had so many amazing people appear in our lives. Heidi Forbes Öste (@ForbesOste) is definitely one of those people. A Boston native, Heidi now lives in Sweden with her husband and children, and has a passion for humanizing technology and strategic use of social tools for individuals & organizations both online & face-to-face. In her practice as a Global Social Strategist and Visual Practitioner, Heidi provides workshops, strategic visual harvesting and consulting to clients worldwide.
Somehow, she is also pursuing a doctorate through Fielding University. As part of her wider research into the tools and methodologies used by the next generation of global leaders, Heidi has started down the path of researching the value of “visual practice” (visual facilitation, graphic recording, mindmapping, sketch-noting, etc.) For more information about Heidi’s work, visit The Art of Social Strategy ( 00:00 | Introductions. Welcome to Forbes. Visual and Social Leadership by Heidi Forbes Öste on Prezi. Research on the Value of Visual Practice. Click on the image to open the report on the research on the value of visual practice. In the midst of my state of buried in books, research, work and (well) life, I was asked by a colleague where the link to my research on the value of visual practice could be accessed.
The data was posted, but my process and finding were written up and I have posted the pdf here to share. It is a bit narrative on my process as that was the purpose of the submission, but there are some interesting resources and data. In the 6 months between when this was submitted and now, there have been several great books and articles that further strengthen the argument for the visual practice.
Additional research, mentioned in this paper, but submitted to a conference awaiting publishing mentions other forms, software-based in particular, as a complementary method. PurPle Infographic. Strategic Visualisation in Action. Innovation Incubator Impact a la Ilspiration. Inspiration for Change / How evolved are you in your social optimisation? #socialstrategy. Understanding Motivation and Consciousness.
The counsellor explained my Meyers-Briggs (MBTI) and Strong Interest (SII) Inventory scores. “INTJ, well suited for leadership,” she said. I would do well in marketing or advertising, something senior, she continued. What came next was like listening to a fortune-teller, especially as I consider where I am now, 20 years later. I would definitely get a PhD, someday. Tools, tools, tools, they all seem the same. Leadership Tomorrow To begin, I shall clarify what I mean by leadership tomorrow, in the New Social Paradigm (Forbes Öste, 2012).
In the past, leaders might have been able to survive in the egocentric bubble of the third level of consciousness (Kegan, 1994) and even thrive in the fourth. Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) Fig.1 Porter’s Themes in Relational Awareness Theory One follows or leads based on gratification. The relating style of individuals is driven by their MVS (Fig.1, Theme 1). Fig.2 SDI Charting Motivational Value Systems (MVS) Fig.3 SDI Profile fo Personal Strengths. | The Happy Movie. Michael Norton: How to buy happiness. How Behavioral Science Propelled Obama's Win. For the last couple of weeks, pundits have been analyzing why Obama won the 2012 election, not to mention how Romney’s strategies led to a loss. One area that has received scant attention is the use of behavioral science and consumer persuasion techniques in the Obama campaign. A group that calls itself “COBS,” for “consortium of behavioral scientists,” was one part of Obama’s winning marketing strategy.
Benedict Carey of the New York Times reports that a “dream team” of behavior researchers offered input and even helped create scripts for the Obama campaign. The team was organized by Craig Fox, a behavioral economist at UCLA. It included experts like Robert Cialdini, professor emeritus at Arizona State University and author of the social science classic, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, and the University of Chicago‘s Richard Thaler, coauthor of Nudge. Simply identifying a person as a voter, as many volunteers did — “Mr. . + show more + show more CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 06: U.S. Sketchnotes: Social for Business at Media Evolution. Social and Visual Leadership. The paradigm has shifted, and the learning curve is steep. Some will rise and some will fall. Social media marketing is only a small piece of the picture.
Understanding that social is people, and people are not just our customers is a start to the journey. Organizations are made up of people in many different roles. Their jobs require people both internally in the organization and externally in partners, product & service providers, new hires, investors, and so on. Relationships are what count whether business to business or business to consumer, it comes down to people.
Each person has a story that contains knowledge, experience, passions, interests, skills, and people. Social Optimization, the building and maintaining of MUTUALLY beneficial and effective relationships, is a key behavioral shift when mastering the Art of Social Strategy. Social technologies are tools that help us optimize this change in behavior when we learn how to best apply them. Results showing strong argument for Visual Practice. Visual Practice compared to Traditional Meetings Research results The Value of Visual Practice survey has been live for a month and the overwhelming response is very positive. Respondents (72 as of this post) are all over the world, with a wide range of organizational roles and levels, ages and exposure to the visual practice.
The one thing that remains consistent is more the 80% of respondents find using Graphic Facilitators in meetings more effective or excellent in comparison to traditional meetings. In conjunction with the survey, I am conducting interviews from leading practitioners and gathering testimonials from clients to get an understanding of where the field is going, and how to help that journey. As practitioners, please take and share the survey with your clients. For those of you considering whether it is worth the investment to use graphic facilitators, let the data speak for what your instinct knows already.
Cisco Sees and Hears Social Media at New Listening Center. Networking technology provider Cisco has opened a Social Media Listening Center where interactive touchscreens offer visual data about the social media conversations Cisco “listens” to in real time. See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me The center, which Cisco says will be open to employees, partners, customers and visitors, features six large interactive touchscreens displaying a wide variety of data about social media conversations around Cisco and its brands, services and products. The Linux- and cloud-based proprietary Cisco Interactive Experience Solution creates the data visualizations and loads them onto the screens via an enterprise-grade browser.
The data itself is generated by Cisco SocialMiner and Radian6 analytical solutions. The Tip of the Iceberg The new center, which is located in the Cisco Executive Briefing Center in San Jose, CA, serves as a customer-facing example of Cisco’s ability to track relevant social media conversations in real-time. Customer Care in the Modern Era. Ad Your Voice Pro-Obama Video 2012. Introducing PurPle: Purpose + People. Here's how social boosts the bottom line. By Colleen Leahey FORTUNE – At a breakfast roundtable Tuesday morning at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, author of 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era Nilofer Merchant kicked off discussion with quite the statement: "Corporate strategy has outlived its usefulness. " At her side, General Electric (GE) Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock agreed.
"The traditional way of corporate strategy is over. [Companies] have to reorient. " Business is social, Comstock claimed. Merchant chimed in, referring to the oft-taught business definition of marketing: a way to capture value. MORE: The one thing banking regulators should do now The admission from a company that it doesn't have all the answers can be tough, Comstock said. Open conversation doesn't mean answering questions via Twitter or Facebook (FB); that no longer "makes a company socially savvy," said Comstock.
Though inspiring, the idea of sharing customers' personal information is jolting. Did You Hear? Old School, MBA-Born Strategy Is As Horrifying As It Is Dead. Nilofer Merchant has a bad habit: she tends to doodle when she doesn't want to say the wrong thing. She had been brought in as a "guest visitor" to a Fortune 500 boardroom to see if she could be a leader there. And she was doodling. She wanted to see if the board understood that their market was shifting underneath them, and, if so, what their next move was. And there's the chairman, leading the conversation again and again to "sustainable competitive advantage" and preserving "focus" in "core areas. " The hours ticked by; the buzzwords stacked up; she doodled. This board, she realized, thought their job was to build a bigger moat around their focus area, unaware that they should be building a drawbridge.
Getting to know the leadership team had turned into a lesson on the disconnect between MBA orthodoxy and business reality. Merchant, a former Rubicon Consulting CEO turned corporate director (who also writes books and tweets and gives TED talks), returned to her office with an epiphany. ‘The West Wing’ Cast Films The Coolest Political Ad Of The Election Season. Column Five Webinar: Visual Content Q&A Recap. We had a great webinar last week on visual content with Maria Pergolino, Sr.
Director of Marketing at Marketo, and Jason Lankow, CEO and Co-Founder of Column Five. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to answer all of the great questions about visual content that our audience asked during the webinar. So, we wanted to do a follow-up blog and share our answers to all of our readers. Q: How does a company find someone to produce visual content? A. To find an agency to help with visual content, we recommend finding examples of what you like, and then looking to see who created that work.
Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Check out the Marketo Facebook page for more examples. The Lionel Richie meme doesn’t mention Marketo anywhere in the copy. For a collection of marketing memes, check out our Pinterest board here. Missed the webinar? The Rise Of Visual Social Media. Social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest have ushered in visual marketing as the breakout trend for 2012. When it comes to their products, businesses are learning to show, not tell, and visual content sites are fueling our desire for beautiful photography and sensational design. Two years ago, marketers were spreading the maxim that "content is king," but now, it seems, "a picture really is worth a thousand words.
" "Blogs were one of the earliest forms of social networking where people were writing 1,000 words," says Dr. William J. Ward, Social Media professor at Syracuse University. "When we moved to status updates on Facebook, our posts became shorter. This trend toward the visual is also influenced by the shifting habits of technology users.
A 2012 study by ROI Research found that when users engage with friends on social media sites, it's the pictures they took that are enjoyed the most. So what does all this visual stimulation mean for brands? Smart Leaders Get More Out of the Employees They Have - Liz Wiseman. By Liz Wiseman | 10:00 AM August 20, 2012 Where do you turn for the resources you need to fuel growth? Do you hire new talent, or ask for more from your existing employees? In growing companies, the temptation to fuel growth by hiring new talent is almost irresistible. The hiring path is especially compelling for hot growth companies; they are inherently attractive employers and can afford new resources. But before calling the recruiter, perhaps you should consider how completely you are using the resources already inside of your organization.
You probably know how productively your company is using your physical assets, but do you know how deeply you are using the intelligence and capability of your people? Let’s look at example from the heart of high-growth Silicon Valley. Most companies are adept at bringing in smart, talented people but few companies put as much discipline into understanding how fully they are using the talent they’ve acquired.
Social optimization. Social Optimization (Social Optimisation) is the building and maintaining of mutually beneficial and effective relationships.[1] Not to be confused with social media optimization. Social optimisation was coined as a key element to the The Art of Social Strategy methodology developed by Heidi Forbes Öste in 2008. Components of the application of social optimization were first presented in university lectures at Malmö Högskola (University) Sweden in 2009, followed by global conferences from 2010: Global Summit of Women[2][3] and BPW International, as well in keynote to OpenText Content Days.
Forbes Öste is currently a doctoral candidate in Human and Organizational Development at Fielding Graduate University extending the research on the topic of Leadership in the New Social Paradigm which is based on the Art of Social Strategy and Social Optimization.[4] Presentations where Social Optimisation has been cited: 7 Reasons Networking Can Be a Professional Development Boot Camp. The social side of strategy - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Strategy in Practice. In 2009, Wikimedia launched a special wiki—one dedicated to the organization’s own strategy. Over the next two years, more than 1,000 volunteers generated some 900 proposals for the company’s future direction and then categorized, rationalized, and formed task forces to elaborate on them.
The result was a coherent strategic plan detailing a set of beliefs, priorities, and related commitments that together engendered among participants a deep sense of dedication to Wikimedia’s future. Through the launch of several special projects and the continued work of self-organizing teams dedicated to specific proposals, the vision laid out in the strategic plan is now unfolding. Wikimedia’s effort to crowdsource its strategy probably sounds like an outlier—after all, the company’s very existence rests on collaborative content creation.
Our objective in this article isn’t to present a definitive road map for opening up the strategy process; it’s simply too early for one to exist. Closer to home. LinkedIn and Slideshare. Transform Your Employees into Passionate Advocates - Rob Markey. Social intranet adoption: how to encourage usage in your organization - Intranet Blog - ThoughtFarmer | Collaborative Culture. The Flight From Conversation. CEOs Who Tweet Held in High Regard. Managers Need to Up Their Game with Social Media - Anthony J. Bradley and Mark P. McDonald. More Visual Communicators Needed. Inspiration for Change / Clarity in images, let me help you! #vizthink #socialstrategy #communication. Executives Share The Best Advice They Ever Got. Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail To Keep Their Best Talent. GameStorming at BookPeople : un album. 10 Top Execs Share Their Social Media Secrets. The Role of Social in Innovation Strategy.
I am a Visual Practitioner. Forget Networking. How to Be a Connector. Gamestorming. Social 2012 Tips! Social 2012 Tips! Heidi Forbes Öste: Advent Calendar Day 6: A p... Slideshare. The Art of Social Strategy: Don't Waste Your Time on Social Media. WIN Reflections | Heidi Forbes Öste. Learning Styles and Social Strategy | Heidi Forbes Öste. What Does It Take To Be a Social Strategist? [INFOGRAPHIC] 5 Reasons Your Product Documentation Is a Marketing Asset. 360entrepreneurship. Using Twitter for events. You and Your Avatar, keeping it about real people interacting. Ah ha moment: Why Social Strategy? | Heidi Forbes Öste. MicroEngagement with MacroImpact: Measurement. Perspective Without Connection | Heidi Forbes Öste. Social Implications of Mobile Apps | Heidi Forbes Öste.
Social Implications of Mobile Apps « The Art of Social Strategy Blog. 8 Critical Elements of Social and Location Based: Reflections from #XMediaLab « The Art of Social Strategy Blog. 5 for 2011: Walk the Talk to the Finish « The Art of Social Strategy Blog. Authentic Leaders are the Future « The Art of Social Strategy Blog. Why IBM Could Be Bigger Than Facebook in Social Media. The Art of Social Strategy blog. Social Optimization, Social Optimisation, Social Media Optimisat. The Art of Social Optimization. GoToWebinar : Webinars Made Easy. Award-Winning Web Casting & On. Expert: F retag missar chanser p Twitter. Blogging Innovation: Innovation Perspectives - Connecting Social.
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