Embrace your community

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A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled Open Source, The Enterprise and The Community where I wrote about embracing the community that exists within your organization and in the open source community. In that post, I mentioned the Boy Scouts of America and how their magazine group uses WordPress.com’s VIP hosting platform for Boys’ Life magazine’s Boyslife.org [...]

Are you managing the constraints or leading your people?

Resource Constraints - Doing more with less

I’ve just started reading Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (affiliate link) by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown.  Actually…I’ve only made it through the foreword written by Stephen R. Covey…but I’m hoping to get a bit further in the book soon  I can’t recommend the book just yet (perhaps a book review will [...]

Mark McDonald on IT Planning for 2011

Mark McDonald, of Gartner, offers some excellent tips for IT planning for 2011 in a post titled Three things to think about as you plan for 2011.  In the post, Mark suggests thinking about these three things: Markets are fracturing Everything’s social Technology is moving away from IT These three tips are excellent and worth doing [...]

Open Leadership – Book review

Open Leadership by Charlene Li

I grabbed a copy of Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead (affiliate link) by Charlene Li for my business trip last week.  Gotta have something to read on the plane you know. I enjoyed this book.  Not only is the subject matter interesting, but the way in which Li presents [...]

Make sure you can live up to your own hype…

Image by Aprile C via Flickr I’m in Atlanta this week on business. I decided to stay at a nice little boutique hotel in midtown called the Artmore Hotel.   The price was the same as the other hotel I was planning to stay in…and the hotel looked much more interesting than the Courtyard.  A [...]