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How to Turn Average Performers Into Sales Rockstars

The truth about building teams is that every one of your hires is not going to be a rockstar from day one. There will always be employees who close more...

0 replies - 228 views - 04/18/13 by David Austin in Articles

PostJoint earns bloggers $100,000 from content marketing

Content marketing is arguably the fastest growing part of the online marketing world.  Companies are increasingly reaching out to bloggers in an...

0 replies - 240 views - 04/18/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Heineken makes our beer bottle a connected device

Why would you want your consumers buried in their iPhones, unaware of their surroundings, when you can have them staring at your product instead? Heineken...

0 replies - 882 views - 04/17/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

How I Organize My Work (with Remember the Milk)

Frequently people ask me, “How can you be so productive?” The question seems a bit strange to me, because I often consider myself not productive at...

0 replies - 593 views - 04/16/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

What Motivates Us at Work?

Good post from the TED conference on what motivates us at work.  A researcher at Harvard conducted an experiment,  and some interesting insights...

0 replies - 919 views - 04/16/13 by David Austin in Articles

What is Social Business anyway?

It certainly sounds better than Human-Centered Data-Backed Agile Design, or the mouth-cluttering acronym that would accompany it. All the hoola boo around the...

0 replies - 486 views - 04/16/13 by Josh Dormont in Articles

GM and Ford collaborate on new transmissions

Last month logistics company DHL released a report advocating that companies collaborate with other companies, including their rivals.  Their logic...

0 replies - 416 views - 04/16/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

3 Reasons You Should Start Playing Games in the Workplace

The office is usually thought of as a dark and dreary place, filled with serious people doing serious things. Yet, a new industry has popped up and is...

0 replies - 1448 views - 04/16/13 by Shany Dembak in Articles

Using social business to disseminate strategy

I know what you’re thinking, that the foremost role of social business is to democratize the actual strategy creation process.  It should be enabling...

0 replies - 816 views - 04/16/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Design Thinking Meets Social Business

By the time I was ten, before household scanners existed, I was done typing my reports on school computers after spending hours etching them on paper. My...

0 replies - 1188 views - 04/15/13 by Josh Dormont in Articles

Doctors advised not to friend patients on social media

Social media is undoubtedly a ubiquitous part of modern life, and illness is a major part of that.  Research conducted recently showed that 60% of us go...

0 replies - 893 views - 04/15/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Is snobbery at play in your organisation?

It's generally accepted now that we live in a knowledge age.  It's also generally accepted that to thrive in such an age requires organisations to tap...

0 replies - 556 views - 04/15/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Use your community to improve how you think

How to take the knowledge of individual employees and spreading that throughout your organization has been a key focus of knowledge managers for...

0 replies - 733 views - 04/15/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Facial recognition creeps quietly into our personal space

If you don’t follow Alistair Croll of Solve for Interesting, you should. In a piece published last week, You’ll Be Tagged, Croll makes the point that...

0 replies - 284 views - 04/15/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Facebook is not about sharing

To most Facebook users (me included) Facebook is not about sharing - it is about staying close to their friends. Sharing is just a means to do that. When...

0 replies - 1019 views - 04/14/13 by Oscar Berg in Articles