He writes frequently in his  social media blog and just finished writing his first  social business book,  Smart Business, Social Business: A Playbook for Social Media in Your Organization which will be released in July 2011. social organization is built upon three pillars – people, process and technology. The first and most important pillar deals with an organizations most valuable asset, its people. These change management initiatives have to be driven by organizational leadership and practiced at every level in the organization. The Social Organization MORE >>

Brass Tack Thinking Make Things Happen Home About Amber Naslund Tamsen McMahon Contact Speaking Amber Naslund Tamsen McMahon Brass Tack Reading Archives Getting Organized with Evernote June 23, 2010 | by Amber Naslund View Comments I heart Evernote. think of Evernote as one comprehensive virtual organizer, idea bank, and file system for pretty much everything I do. It’s not just about remembering stuff, but it’s about having the stuff I want to remember organized in a way that makes sense to me, and searchable so I can find it easily later without fuss. Perfect. MORE >>

If the company could think like a customer what would change? The value chain—as it has been defined by marketing consultants—meant that organizations directed their efforts at a customer outside the perimeter…you know outside of the corporate thinking and the walls designed to protect that thinking. In the old days the organization made things and told the buyer that it was good, and the buyer bought…or used to, without being influenced by other customers. Put the game is changing… The Customer Doesn’t Think Like Your Company. Everything! MORE >>

Here is a 30 minute video of Dave Gray talking about “the connected company”, a theme with which you will be very familiar from Humanize. Dave is founder of XPLANE, a visual thinking company, and a partner in the Dachis Group, a social business consultancy. recent analysis of S&P 500 companies shows that when you triple the number of employees in an organization, its productivity drops by half. What’s more, only 40 percent of companies survive more than a decade. And companies are made of people, not levers and gears. photo credit ). MORE >>

If you’ve ever spoken to an Executive Recruiter about filling a vacancy in the sales organization at your company, you’ve probably heard the term “Hunter” used to describe the profile of a top-notch sales candidate. In an oft-repeated and seldom successful ploy, business owners that cannot lure Hunters to join their organizations will sometimes try to bridge the gap by hiring a larger number of less productive sales personnel MORE >>