If this year is like last year, people in various places can soon watch Citigroup bankers clean beaches, prepare summer camps for children from poor households, and distribute food to the hungry. They participate in what Citigroup calls Global Community Day, a “Day of Service” done by many large corporations.… Read more
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A recent article in International Herald Tribune entitled “Yin and Yang of corporate creativity” describes two approaches to innovation, one of Apple and another of Google. The Google approach is a bottom up, open innovation which is based on rapid experimentation and receiving quick customer feedback.… Read more
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Let’s continue reviewing basic topics in inter-personal networking. We learned that an individual with open inter-personal network is a person whose friends don’t know each other. This individual is considered to be a broker, because he or she can combine information and knowledge from some of his/her network contacts and create something new and innovative.… Read more
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Recently a colleague of mine has asked me what would be the key academic papers on the topic of “new media”. It took me a few hours to think through the request not because I didn’t remember the papers but rather because I had a hard time to categorize them around themes that are relevant for the topic. … Read more
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Some blog posts ago we started talking about individuals who occupy brokerage positions in open networks, a.k.a. brokers. These are the people whose network contacts are not connected to each other. We also learned that brokers were more likely to generate good ideas, be promoted faster and get better salary raises.… Read more
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The never-ending financial crisis has sadly cost many people their jobs. It is well-known that networking can help people find jobs, but what is the most effective way of networking? Are you likely to get better job leads from people whom you know very well (your close friends) or from people whom you don’t know very well (your distant acquaintances)?… Read more
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At some point in the future regulators may look at the industry and argue that dominant social networks are “natural monopolies” with too great a concentration of market power. But long before that hypothetical eventuality, is it smart strategy forFacebook to break itself… Read more up?
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