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If only lie detector tests were legal. At least that was one sentiment from last night’s #TChat about the digital workplace and the responsibility of both business leaders and the employees that work for them. So wait, what about the lie detector tests? This issue lies in how personally responsible we are in the workplace [...]

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” — Arnold Bennett Not really what we want to hear when we don’t think anything’s broken. Leadership is one key to driving innovation “buy in”. It’s critical for us to stay close to the rapid developments happening in the social [...]

They pushed the cleaning carts into the office hallway at the end of the day. They emptied trash cans, wiped down doorways and cleaned office windows, vacuumed the rugs and then moved on to the bathrooms, sharing something in Spanish and laughing. Right when I left for home and needed to use the bathroom. At [...]

Politics aside, I was glad when the President called for action to reverse unemployment and create re-employment during his State of the Union address the other night. It’s not a new buzz mantra; it’s one many of us have been advocating from the bottom of the heavy-gravity economic crater. There are so many recommendations on [...]

I got the invite to Chill with someone. And that’s when it hit me: there’s just too much information, too many content curation tools, too many sharing tools, too many communications tools that don’t really help me communicate. Whirlwind. Zoom. Zis-boom-ba. Turn the fire hose off and get me a real drink. Sure, early adopters [...]

He sat at the end of the table, listening to us intently but comfortably, as if every word we spoke gave him new meaning to everything he already knew. Sometimes he placed his elbows on the table, two fingers from his right hand resting on his cheek. Sometimes his hand were in his lap, his [...]

It’s like a bad high school movie — where one clique picks on another less popular clique. But in this movie, it’s not the popular kids who taunt the geeky ones. No, in this movie the still popular kids are traditional Annual Performance Reviews and the geeky aberrations are the pundits pushing to change the [...]

Yesterday Time magazine named the collective “Protestor” as Person of the Year for 2011. Social technologies played a fairly significant role in fueling the worldwide protests and the dramatic “call for change” we’ve seen politically and economically. According to Time, “Social networks did not cause these movements, but they kept them alive and connected. Technology [...]

Week after week of tweeting “The World of Work” questions and answers for an hour with a few hundred folks, many of whom you’ve never met, all within the context of 140 characters or less in big old Zen sandbox - It’s a little crazy if you think about it. I mean, who would want to do [...]

During my niece’s high school graduation three years ago, the school honored those family and friends who had served in the armed forces. My father was in the Air Force, so we smiled proudly as he stood while the song played on, “Off we go, into the wild blue yonder…” Then, at the end of [...]