Chess Media Group is hard at work with some big and exciting things for 2013! One of the things we are going to be focusing on is providing more educational and strategic content around collaboration, the future of work, and the future workplace. Based on
It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. —Charles Darwin (I gave a presentation recently where I talked about how the only thing we can be certain of is uncertainty, in
As I mentioned in a previous article on The Manager of Today, many of our educational institutions and businesses have been modeled after the military where everyone needs to think the same way, dress the same, get access to the same information, and do what
The role of the manager is evolving quite a bit thanks to the connected, social, and collaborative world we now live in. Corporations and schools around the world originally modeled their approaches based on the way the military did things. We needed everyone wearing the
One of the fascinating things I am starting to see within organizations that are deploying collaborative tools and strategies is the emergence of leaders. Traditionally if you were to ask someone who a leader was at their company they would name a manager or a
A few days ago I highlighted the DARPA Network Challenge where a team from MIT used social media to locate ten giant red balloons scattered throughout the U.S. Today I want to share another story with you, one that you may have heard of; about a small
It’s late at night on Christmas day and pouring rain in the Bay Area as I write this. I’m Jewish so I don’t celebrate Christmas. This year Blake (my girlfriend) and I went to go see Argo (which by the way was great) and then
In 2009, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which is a research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, put forth an interesting challenge. They were going to place 10 red, anchored, 8 foot tall weather balloons across the United States and have teams compete
I first wrote this article for CMSWire but wanted to share it here as well. I’m sure you have noticed that many of the enterprise collaboration vendors out there are starting to look very similar; not just in appearance but also in functionality. In fact,
Big hat tip to Patrick Allman from Mango Apps for getting my attention to this! According to IDC the enterprise social software market was just shy of $800 million in 2011 which represented a growth of 40% when compare to the previous year and a
