Leaders by their very nature are under pressure to have advanced intellectual and emotional intelligence. In today’s economy, they better add one more – VQ, The Vision Quotient. The pace of change is speeding up. Each and everyday, the competition…
I was reading an article the other day and someone posed a question much like the title of this post, and of course it sent my mind off into a catastrophe of ideas. In the Matrix movies the Internet became…
One of the foundational aspects of social technologies I talk about is the ability for a person,or an organization to use new tools to harvest huge amounts of information from the Websphere and pack it into our brains. I often…
I often comment that technology is just a tool. It’s not magic, nor mysterious, it is just a tool. I do admit that some aspects can be complicated, and if one adds together all the technology we face in life,…
What is an eCommunity? It is a question I hear often, and it is usually followed by an answer that does not do more than scrape the surface of this powerful tool. The term eCommunity has been used to describe…
Being the kind of person that is forced to think big thoughts for a living, I am always on the hunt for new things to learn. It is a knowledge economy after all so the smart people win and…
Leaders, by the definition of the word, should be out in front of their charges guiding them as to the next move to make, or the next place to go. But what happens when leaders fail to lead? What happens…
OK, I am only going to write about this one time, and then I am going to let it go. I start every presentation I give on social technologies with the same slide, and each time I review it, the…
For some reason I have had these visions popping into my head of the things in life that technology has pretty much erased from the face of the Earth. If you are under 25 years old, this post may not…
Powerful, passionate and creative, Scott Klososky is one of the first successful Internet entrepreneurs and is a highly sought-after speaker. He shares stories from his experience of building successful dot.com companies in good and hard times and shares personal stories…
One of the more important concepts I speak about these days is the idea that the Internet, and a gaggle of social technologies, has created an amazing ability to build rivers of information into our brains. Most people are still…
Being a creative person, I am always on the look out for a way of mixing words that might be a new way to describe something that is not well described today. As I speak to audiences about business intelligence…
Social networking has become part of our lives and more recently Twitter has vaulted to the top of the list of what's hot in technology today. Twitter is in the news; in fact many TV and radio personalities are using…
I cannot stop myself from writing this specific message for you to because I am becoming frustrated that organizations are moving so slowly on this subject. I have been asked to speak to quite a few audiences lately about social…
I have delineated ten phases in "the technology integration of man" - four before this moment, and six to come. Step back and think about the time we live in now as being in the middle of a 100 year…
I read an article the other day that talked about the concept of Innovation Economics. The description being the conscious practice of investing in innovation as a method for driving economic prosperity. I love how the author stated clearly that…
Negative economic times generally have an interesting impact on technology tools because the resources dry up and organizations have less ability to take risks and buy new toys. So they replace this with learning how to use their current tools…
Here is a quote I have been preaching in speeches these days, "Content is the new democracy and we the people are insuring that our our voices are heard." This wisdom is from Brian Solis who is an expert on…
It is my observation that one of the hardest things to do as a businessperson is to look into the future and be able accurately see a picture of how things are going to be. As I sit here today,…
Here is a statement most people do not argue with these days - we simply could not run our organizations without the aid of technology. While it is awesome we now have a huge inventory of technology to assemble solutions…
