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The role of a CEO is an ever challenging job but in a social business it may require a different style of leadership and new skills to carry out this style. The upending of strong hierarchy and leadership by command and control requires a CEO to be much more versatile, persuasive, and collaborative across the various business functions and line of business executives in their organization.

[[ Note: This is a continuation of my series,...

There have been many attempts in the drive to describe the value of social and collaborative environments. Most often I find a discussion of this becomes embroiled in an argument over how to calculate (often down to a mathematical level) a return on investment on the software. The reality is that the software can be used in so many ways that its real value only becomes apparent when you look at specific scenarios of where it is being applied in a particular business process within a line of...

It has been said many times, that for social business to succeed to create the evolution towards Enterprise 2.0, we need to put this social activity directly into the flow of how people work. In that light, we spent quite some time at the recent Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris, discussing how to integrate social business activity into enterprise processes, and in particular from the view of process modeling.

The World Wide Web Consortium held an online collaboration jam on the topic of Social Business last November 8-10, 2011. Having participated in a few jams before, I am always surprised by the interesting points that come out of the discussions. One interesting poll result that caught my eye asserts that: “Larger organizations need social technologies more than small ones.” Is that true?

The results of the...

Talent management is one area that gets a great deal of attention in social business in the HR domain. Many questions emerge but the basic question is if talent acquisition and development methods are changing fundamentally. If so, what do new forms look like?

At Enterprise2.0 conference Santa Clara, I caught up with Tim Young, the former CEO of Socialcast...

Fellow Forbes blogger Haydn Shaughnessy recently posted an infographic in describing Social business and the Growth of Shared Value. He created this together with Global Dawn, a consultancy based in London. The goal according to their blog was to trace the history of Social...

Tim Young, VP Social Enterprise, VMWare, (source: Enterprise2.0 conference)

Are there organizations looking into new models of how we hire...

Transparency is top of mind for many business leaders these days but beyond the buzzword, how does a leader think and act transparently? What are the boundaries and what is practical and purposeful?

Social Business and Enterprise2.0 describe a significant change to model of how organizations run. At the heart of this evolving notion are the leaders who are considering the ideas of what the future of work will look like and how do we now scale human potential and increase the productivity of firms.

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Social business is transforming the organization on the cellular level. Yet, there still is a central nervous system; leaders that organize or coordinate the actions towards a common vision. To keep up with the evolution of the organization model, business leaders likewise need new skills of how to work.

[[ Note: This is a part of my series, How Social Business Leaders Lead, focusing on how leaders of existing social businesses are evolving their own skills, along with...