A Twitter, Facebook & Google+ analogy. How I view Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
Some of my friends in the tech press have got that Google+ fever, and are running wild with it. But others don't get it. They come to Google+, look around and wonder what all the fuss is about. Most of these friends really like Twitter, or really get Facebook. So by way of analogy, I'd like to share with them (and you) how I view Twitter, Facebook and Google+. Here's the analogy: Twitter is Penn Station. If you're using social media for content discovery (and who isn't these days), you will find very little of that content on Twitter itself. Build Authority as an Online Writer. Embedding Innovation in Organizational DNA. What company today doesn’t put innovation at the top of the agenda?
Yet how many companies have devoted the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October. That disconnect isn’t due to lack of human ingenuity or resources. It’s a product of organizational DNA. Productivity, predictability, and alignment are embedded in the marrow of our management systems. So, how do we make every management process a catalyst, rather than a wet blanket, for innovation? How not to say the wrong thing. When Susan had breast cancer, we heard a lot of lame remarks, but our favorite came from one of Susan's colleagues.
She wanted, she needed, to visit Susan after the surgery, but Susan didn't feel like having visitors, and she said so. Her colleague's response? "This isn't just about you. " "It's not? " Susan wondered. The same theme came up again when our friend Katie had a brain aneurysm.
YEAR IN REVIEW: 10 tips for a better life from The Times' Op-Ed pages in 2013 This woman loves Katie, and she said what she did because the sight of Katie in this condition moved her so deeply. Susan has since developed a simple technique to help people avoid this mistake. Draw a circle. Here are the rules. Everyone else can say those things too, but only to people in larger rings. When you are talking to a person in a ring smaller than yours, someone closer to the center of the crisis, the goal is to help.
How to Be Creative. How to network like a professional. If Management is the Only Way Up, We're All F'd. Date / / Category / Hiring, Moz, Team Geraldine used to love her job at Cranium (the board game startup in Seattle, prior to the Hasbro acquisition & layoffs).
She wrote questions for the board games, and copy for the boxes and marketing materials. She was good at it. But, something weird happened – they tried to promote her. I remember her coming home at night and fretting endlessly. It’s weird. I’m calling BS. In the past, I’ve written about the importance of having multiple tracks for progress – ICs and people wranglers – but we’ve been spending a lot more time bouncing ideas around at Moz lately, and are soon to be implementing a new title/team structure that finally puts this into practice. I worry today when an individual contributor is great at their job and expresses an interest in people management.
I made this diagram to help illustrate the differences between the two types of roles: (larger version) Individual contributors have responsibility for themselves and their work. SumOfUs. Think Insights with Google – Think Insights – Google. Good to Know – Google. If you’re the tablet owner, touch Settings → Users → Add user or profile.
Touch Restricted profile then New profile to name the profile. Use the ON/OFF toggles and Settings to grant access to features, settings and apps. Press the Power button to return to the lock screen, then touch the new profile icon. Once it's all set up, the Home screen is empty. Touch the All Apps icon to get started with the new profile. Plan Y sources. Why You Should Take the Blame. I was at a party in Greenwich Village in New York City.
It was crowded, with about twice as many people as the space comfortably fit. There was a dog in the mix too. But it was a casual event and we all spent a lot of time in the kitchen, cooking and cleaning. I was at the sink washing dishes when I heard the dog yelp behind me. I turned just in time to see a woman curse at the dog as it dashed out of the kitchen. “Watch out!” Really? Actually, a lot of us do. We start blaming others at an early age, usually to escape parental anger and punishment, but also to preserve our own self-esteem and self-image. Sometimes it’s at a departmental level: A struggling sales group blames a poor product, while the product people blame an ineffectual sales team or maybe lax manufacturing. A few years ago I sat at a table with the leaders of a major stock exchange. I asked them what was getting in the way.