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Do You Have a Vision Statement?
Corporations and businesses are made of bits called promises. The better the promise in and out, the stronger and more resilient the business. While the mission defines the fundamental purpose of an organization and how it achieves what it set out to do, it is the vision that defines the way an organization or enterprise…
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Connecting to Your Passions
I've been told I'm passionate about business and learning. Passion for identifying systems of thinking has been my life long engine for innovation and growth. Can business and passion coexist? Good question. In many instances, your passion is great until you're part of the team, then you've got to tone it down. It is not…
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Why Aren’t There More Funded Female Entrepreneurs in Tech?
[The fox by Stefano Ronchi] Could it be because their vision is to build businesses that last and not to flip? There have been posts — even research — shared in the last couple of years about the lack of women in tech and now women entrepreneurs in tech. The recent discussion I joined at…
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Collaboration
People are no longer a company's best asset, they are its best technology Collaboration needs contribution, commitment, and championing. To be sustainable, it needs to be embedded in the core principles that move us to action. Marketing the makes business sense is also about understanding what customers want and helping deliver it. Delivering the relevant…
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Future of Business: Is Your Team in the Cloud?
Most department stores use a matrix of good, better, and best for merchandising. For example in dinnerware they will have a low, middle, and high price point in several styles to choose from. In the 80's specialty stores came along like the Gap, Staples, etc. trying to dominate in one category. The core of Urban…
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Role of the Participant-Observer in Organizations
Conversation involves many different perspectives. Take for example the conversation on technology — older generations and women have been written OUT of technology, yet they're very much in there. Women are the early adopters. In a Q&A for Bryn Mawr alumni bulletin [h/t to Constance Semler], Intel's Genevieve Bell talks about what I called uploading humanism:…
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The Future of Work, NYC
Tonight, I will be engaged in a Podio conversation kicking off a series on the future of work with fellow professionals and globetrotters Marcia Conner and Jennifer Magnolfi in New York City. Moderated by Stowe Boyd, the session will cover several questions on how social media is impacting the world of business on the inside.…
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It’s the Connections that Make the Business
"Here I was inside of a sinking ship trying to launch a rocketship out of it. It was a very tumultuous, scary, and nervous time." [Noah Glass, co-founder, Twitter] I was reading this interview with Norah Glass, the forgotten co-founder of Twitter, and agreeing with him — there is some truth to every story. Plus,…
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Reports of Women Being Like Men are Greatly Exaggerated
I've been considered too globally-minded for the local market, too Italian at times for the US, too woman for operating in a man's world, whatever that means, and too Liberal Arts-schooled for being immersed in technology. Not that any of that has slowed me down… it just means it takes longer for people to see…
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Cognitive Surplus in Business
Cognitive surplus is not simply trillions of hours of free time spread across two billion connected individuals, writes Clay Shirky in his seminal book about creativity and generosity in a connected age. Rather, it is how connections help us create opportunity for each other. And I'm going to hit pause here because I'd like you…