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May
19
2012

"Be sure to understand the role you'd have, what you could accomplish, and what you'd learn. A strong culture will set people up for success, and you need to be sure that's in place. In discussing your role, you'll also get insight into how the place works.

Then, ask questions that point the discussion to how the organization works. General questions — "What's the culture like?" or "Are people treated well?" — seldom work. I've come up with specific sample questions you can ask as you're interviewing for a job or talking with others who know the institution. They're grouped into six topic areas. "

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  • 1. Purpose. Seek an institution whose purpose you could find inspiring
  • 2. Teamwork. Consider how people work together, especially if you prefer to work in a highly collaborative environment or more independently
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Mar
7
2012

"I put on my curmudgeon hat and had another look at Social. I voiced my concerns about Social Business, its challenges, its extremely high dependence on people for data quality and business information, as well its cannibalisation of your current business offerings.
Now, it’s time to voice my concerns about Social Enterprise. And well about time, after this long introduction…"

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  • An enterprise is an organisation where your colleagues aren’t intimate friends, but complete strangers
  • An Enterprise is anti-social by nature.
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Jun
21
2009

The result is that a lot of people in the workforce have a pretty narrow view of what the word “colleague” means. It’s important to broaden that definition and cultivate relationships with people in other fields. Here’s why.

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  • Expanding your definition of who you count as a colleague is not just a petty semantics game. It will help shape the way you interact with people, and could lead to more meaningful relationships where none would otherwise exist
  • But by sticking to familiar ground you’re only doing yourself a disservice in the end.
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Aug
14
2008

I could share dozens and dozens of items on what it has meant for me to eventually move away from corporate e-mail and instead engage through social software to increase my collaborative and knowledge sharing efforts. However, going to try to keep it short. So I will mention that my main key benefits from making such jump have been to no longer feel stranded in the e-mail world, having tasks delegated on to you, just because you have the information / knowledge. I no longer have the pressure of having to constantly keep up with the incoming flow of e-mails of which a good chunk of them I wouldn’t even need to get them in the first place! I no longer sense I have lost control of my own productivity while helping others get their tasks done. I no longer feel it is me against them and the corporation. Them sending e-mails across more and more by the day, me, attempting to address them all and try to finish with a zero inbox, which almost never happened!

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