Why You Shouldn’t Give People Too Much Credit

Changing expectations to help achieve better results

Sometimes I feel like I give people too much credit. I don’t mean credit as in praise or accolades. I mean I too often think that people…

Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth

Or, why everyone needs to know their role…

There is an old saying dating back to the 16th century that “too many cooks spoil the broth.” If you do a search on this phrase, most of the examples you’ll find relate to…

Implementing IBM Connections

Tips and advice from zero to launch…

I’m gratefully, thankfully, miraculously near the end of a long journey to implement IBM Connections for my company of 50,000. This journey took longer than it should have but this article…

Three Tips for Presenting To Executives

And a bonus rant about the lost art of the memo

Using the Enterprise Social Network to Build Trust

And to act like a real human

Claire Lew penned an insightful post a couple of days ago looking at the results of a recent survey on trust in the workplace, with some unfortunate insights in how…

A Path to a Digital Workplace

A few tips for those heading down this road…

What is a digital workplace?

Digital workplace is a term that has over past several years attempts to describe and define the…

What Millennials and Gen Z Expect in the Workplace

Hint: you need to upgrade your enterprise apps

Jared Lindzon did a great summary writeup of a recently published study of Millennials and Gen Z workers covering some of their likes and…

Bringing Employees Together with Online Communities

Why you shouldn’t shy away from letting your employees self-organize

Companies are going social. They are taking this approach externally with their customers and are…

Launch

Lessons in going live…

A few days ago we launched our redesigned intranet and new collaboration platform, IBM Connections, to our workforce of over 60,000 employees and contractors. It’s almost a surreal feeling to have passed this milestone after months and months of…

The Number One Thing You Need to Sell Your Idea

And why we are going to see more and more of it

Yesterday I wrote a few tips on presenting to executives, but I left out the most important aspect that you need to help boost your success…