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When Leaders “Buy-In”, What Is The Outcome For YOU?

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Two further lovely neat challenges from the recent conference call with Adjuvi talking about dealing with “change.” All very well that leaders proclaim the need for new / change / the future! But are they putting themselves first in the firing line, or do they mean YOU, not them…? Hmmmm. No comment.   Leader “Buys in” = “My org should compromise to the new initiative, but not me” –Larry Everson #CAWW — Jonathan Anthony (@ThisMuchWeKnow) July 10, 2014   Leader takes “Buy-in” literally – they bought the software, but nothing else!! – @Dennis_Pearce #CAWW — Jonathan Anthony (@ThisMuchWeKnow) July 10, 2014 … Continue reading When Leaders “Buy-In”, What Is The Outcome For YOU?

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X Is The New Y: Another Take

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Last year I worked through a few changes in the way people and organizations (co)exist, especially as technology changes our world(view) and networks blow away rigid structures. I called this series X is the new Y. Well, one article I read today really has 9 new Xs, so to speak, all from the genius of Joi Ito, head of MIT Media Lab. (Explanations begin around 16:30 of video) Ito calls them principles of innovation, and they fit perfectly into the x:y perspective. Resilience is the new Strength Pull is the new Push Risk is the new Safety System is the … Continue reading X Is The New Y: Another Take

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TRANS-Enterprise Social Networks: Impact Hub Westminster

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So, I’m reflecting on how ESNs are limiting, and that the new frontier of work is TESN (TRANS-enterprise social networks). We are moving beyond relative boundaries of the industrial age. We are, instead, availing ourselves of new opportunities to commune and collaborate with the very best people in our networks. Recently, I attended the #ResponsiveOrg unConference in London at Impact Hub, Westminster. As with Hive YVR, the environment is a mix of hot desk and semi-permanent work stations, and community and collaboration are at its heart. As their website states: We provide flexible access to workspace and curate a supportive, … Continue reading TRANS-Enterprise Social Networks: Impact Hub Westminster

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TRANS-Enterprise Social Networks: #_unBound Vancouver

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Yesterday, I mentioned HiVE Vancouver. Today’s trans-enterprise social network is a pop-up version, the first Vancouver #_unBound at the Microsoft office. A few ESN fellow travellers converged to a neutral venue to work (on our own stuff), to discuss (commonalities), and to network. No agenda, no required outcomes, just a space to be held where firewalls are forgotten for a few hours. Boundaries dissipate, inside-outside is put to one side – a trans-enterprise social network. You look around the table at people who are trying to move in a similar direction, and the comradeship is effortless, natural, unforced. It was … Continue reading TRANS-Enterprise Social Networks: #_unBound Vancouver

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TRANS-Enterprise Social Networks: Hive Vancouver

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I spend a lot of my time studying, considering, activating in the area of ESNs (enterprise social networks). It has been my entrance to the world of net work (sic). A key issue I face with ESNs is that it always becomes a conversation about technology, rather than about people (deploying that technology). As I an oft to say: the ESN is just a tool. So, I spend quality time reading and exploring around the theoretical and practical edges of ESNs, and lo! what do I find but PEOPLE…everywhere! Inside the firewall, I spent a week working out loud under … Continue reading TRANS-Enterprise Social Networks: Hive Vancouver

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Manifestos…To Understand: The Cloud Revolution

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Early on in the blog, I wrote a few posts about manifestos that proved quite popular. I reviewed them at the end of the year with this thought: People like directions. Me too. I like simple, evocative calls-to-action; they stir the Head-Heart-Hand. Manifestos drive conversation – it is not necessarily about believing everything in them; but using them as a riff / filter for your own thoughts and ideas. In the interim, I have found a few more manifestos. Let’s continue the series, and also continue to use them to riff on our own thoughts and ideas… I discovered The Cloud … Continue reading Manifestos…To Understand: The Cloud Revolution

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Redundancy And Repetition Are Good For You: Revisited

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Reading a recent Harold Jarche post – Ten Years, Ten Thoughts – thought 7 reminded me of a few posts I wrote last year that are worth revisiting, not least because redundancy and repetition are good for you! Jarche reminds us that: An informal professional learning network, with its redundant connections, repetition of information and indirect communications, is a much more resilient system than any designed professional development program can be. I made a few tangential points in this direction. In How we learn, channeling an older version of the Jarche post: [Repetition and redundancy] sounds luxurious, but it is not. Digital, networked … Continue reading Redundancy And Repetition Are Good For You: Revisited

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Manage For Today, Lead Into The Future?

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The wholly despressing stat of the day from LeadershipABC via Jon Husband: only about 2.4% of management time (40% x 30% x 20%) is focused on building a corporate view of the future. If management is the work of today, then is leadership the work of tomorrow? The description implies forward momentum. If so, who will lead us? Who will vest their time now for tomorrow’s benefit? Who is brave enough to commit their energy to this endeavor? ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading Manage For Today, Lead Into The Future?

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Commit To Something, Remain Open To Change

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Let’s talk about commitment. It’s tough. There are so many temptations! Something shinier, newer, more exotic, cooler. Standing for SOMETHING asks a lot. But we all need a place to stand. A place to call home, at least for the night. I have been enjoying reading the excellent e-book from Harold Jarche ($25 from an ebookshop near you!) Jarche, in his own approach to work, is living out this search in real time. His is a search for perpetual beta and this is beautifully, subtly captured in the book’s intro: Beta is more than Alpha, as you have to affirm … Continue reading Commit To Something, Remain Open To Change

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A Happy #WOLyo! Outcome? Finding A First Follower.

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Some learning happens in the moment, some comes in reflection and debrief. Living through the working out loud experiment last week was powerful and dense. After, I felt tired yet optimistic – that new conversations might happen, new organizational and cultural opportunities emerge. This week, a few people have been ribbing me, why aren’t you still under the stairs? It’s just not the same Jonathan, without you peering out from the gloom… A few more missed it entirely (March break holidays) and sounded genuinely disappointed (in theory, of course). A contact made the connection between what I did – a willingness to … Continue reading A Happy #WOLyo! Outcome? Finding A First Follower.

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#WorkOutLoud Week: Day 2 #WOLyo! The Place That Adults Whisper About And Children Cross The Street To Avoid

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So, word reaches me, working out loud (#WOLyo!) under the stairs at work, from two separate sources within minutes of each other – surely a meaning to this then – that Wes Craven has been here years before me, in the 1991 movie The People Under The Stairs. According to IMDb, “Two adults and a juvenile burglar break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children and can’t escape.” Well, here I am, and there are escape routes left and right, but I’m hanging in there. Day one was very tiring because the spot light … Continue reading #WorkOutLoud Week: Day 2 #WOLyo! The Place That Adults Whisper About And Children Cross The Street To Avoid

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It’s Time To #WOLyo!

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Here is my current applied learning process: I connect with those who are further ahead, some who are behind or abreast but who are seekers also; I watch, listen, read. I let the knowledge wash over me. I pause for thought. I create space for insight at several points through the day. I reach out, respond, enter the flow, deepen my awareness. I articulate my own connected thoughts on my blog, for my own challenge first. I work out loud. As ideas eddy and still and amplify, I bring new learning to work (day job). I share new ideas, new … Continue reading It’s Time To #WOLyo!