It’s amazing how fast a year goes by and how much we cram into 365 days. Hope everyone has a great holiday season and a terrific year in 2010! At this time of year, I always look ahead to what’s to come, and 2010 looks like it’s shaping up to be exciting. Here’s a peek [...]
The process of formulating their strategy is one of the most important, challenging and invigorating projects an organization ever undertakes. It is the organization’s opportunity to seriously reflect on the evolving environment surrounding it, and the impact it wants to make in that environment. The environment is full of contradictions, incredible opportunities, and daunting threats. [...]
I’ve been setting aside a pile of blog posts, particularly on leadership, that I’m now ready to write. There’s so much written on leadership, it’s rather daunting to know what to read, or who to read. We can never go wrong with Drucker or Mintzberg or those published with Harvard (you all know by now [...]
Too often we associate “leadership” with being in a senior management position, making big decisions & big salaries. Oh, we quote Gandi & Mandela, but in the work context we all too look to the CEO’s of corporations for leadership lessons. Yet the simple truth is that leaders are those who lead people to make [...]
What a shock — my childhood just rushed through my head when I opened up Google this morning and saw Popeye! My father had been in the Navy so Popeye was a favorite character in our house. And remember Popeye’s cans of spinach for strength? there it is! At any rate, is it wonderful that [...]
Rebecca and I have been doing a lot of work with clients recently in pIanning their future direction and mapping out their strategies for getting there. I think that’s why the words below from James Kobielus in Forresters blog for Information and knowledge professionals resonated with me. Here’s the first couple of paragraphs Kobielus’ post. [...]
Jordan Frank of Traction Software has posted the presentation he & Christine Connors (TriviumRLG LLC) gave at the 2009 Taxonomy Boot Camp, “Ontologies & Tagsonomies: Linked Data, Web 3.0, Tag Mush”. Christine addressed “What do ontologies provide that taxonomies and thesauri lack? What is the big deal about the semantic web? What’s the difference between [...]