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RT @stephendale: Collaboration blockers: lack of top level support, middle management blocking, poor education + support, unmanaged expectations #swconf

RT @ken8158: Time for less NHS autocracy & hierarchies and > networks/networking and teamwork. Give me collaboration not competition any day #Pathology

RT @felmundo The Death of the Cubicle & the Killers Are Collaboration & Innovation. Do companies still use cubicles?

RT @sabika: Organizational Culture and Social Business Networks via @tstaley #socbiz #e20 #corporateculture #collaboration

RT @nilofer: Rule of the social era: understand the importance of collaboration by seeking out co-thinkers and co-creators and work with them.

RT @oscarberg: Q: How to get things done when you can't do it all by yourself & don't know whom to ask for help? A: Social collaboration.

RT @stephendale #SocBiz Intelligence: Wisdom from the Outside In by @PaulDunay via @Forbes.

@RogerGW Chasing success in the SCRM space. They're all at it. There is precious few who hold stongly on cultural transformation for #SocBiz

@RogerGW I respect him. He is forced to play the hand he is served. Unfortunately, the great majority just want to talk #SocBiz, not do it.

@jonhusband Well observed, Jon. Humans are for superior to automation for 'effectiveness'. Humans deal best with complex changes. #SocBiz

If you need a #SocBiz thought leader, influencer, strategist, @oscarberg is now available. See his blog .

RT @oscarberg: "If it ain't broken, why fix it?" Many don't see a need 4 #socbiz is since they don't see knowledge work is broken

RT @jonhusband: Screw efficiency as core driver of effective knowledge work ..misses so much of potential utility, & besides human minds don't work that way

RT @demingSoS: We can be knowledgeable with other men's #knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's #wisdom.  Michel de Montaigne

RT @oscarberg: The challenge with knowledge work isn't only to make waste visible, but more importantly to make value-creation visible

@letterpress_se @oscarberg ,,, & a misapprehension about knowledge as static stocks rather than dynamic flows. A business-busting POV.

RT @oscarberg: "If it ain't broken, why fix it?" Many don't see a need 4 #socbiz is since they don't see knowledge work is broken

@hjarche The upside is you establish your knowledge and credentials as a social learning consultant. Swings & roundabouts, mate.

RT @dhinchcliffe: The #socbiz challenge: We're entering an era where orgs must be agile, flexible, & variable. Most companies can't adapt -@davegray #sbs2012

RT @felmundo The Death of the Cubicle & the Killers Are Collaboration & Innovation. Do companies still use cubicles?

RT @shaneschick: Cover-up! RT @mgeist: How Canada's Telecom Companies Have Secretly Supported Internet Surveillance Legislation #c30

RT @flowchainsensei: "Individual commitment to a group effort - that's what makes a team, a company, a society, a civilisation work." ~ Vince Lombardi

RT @webtechman 4 Ways to Cultivate Crappy Corporate Culture by @MattMonge. How many companies do it

RT @oscarberg: The worst way to run a knowledge company is to do it from an ivory tower, seeing employees only as numbers & figures

RT @oscarberg: The greatest waste in any business is passion and talent that is hidden, lost, neglected, rejected or discouraged

@letterpress_se @oscarberg ,,, & a misapprehension about knowledge as static stocks rather than dynamic flows. A business-busting POV.

@oscarberg Great profile photo, Oscar - a nice naturalism. Warm and friendly is good for business : )

RT @lirons @armano: Why Social Learning Benefits Your Business by @sharlyn_lauby. SL is organic, it can't be forced

RT @dhinchcliffe 6 ways the social revolution is changing business by @MarkBonchek. #socbiz So much more than FB

RT @demingSoS: "Wrong Style of Management: Doing business by price tag...Short term contracts." #Deming #HR #MBA #purchasing #finance

RT @demingSoS: "#Unemployment..is created by #management" #Deming RT @Reuters_Biz: HP to lay off 27,000, profit slides 31 percent

RT @demingSoS: "Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future." James Bertrand #Deming #SoPK RT @GaryLoper

RT @demingSoS: "Wrong Style of Management: Doing business by price tag...Short term contracts." #Deming #HR #MBA #purchasing #finance

RT @demingSoS: "The next quarterly dividend is not as important as the existence of the company 5, 10 or 20 years from now." #Deming #MBA #Agile #Lean

RT @demingSoS: "Our main problems are #transdisciplinary, so we need transdisciplinary education." Fritjof Capra #systemsthinking #Deming #Ackoff

RT @demingSoS: "Focusing on results is like driving your car by looking in the rear view mirror" M Tribus - An early adopter of Dr. Deming's theory of mgmt