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Life’s Change Agent
1353 days
by Simon Scullion
in Enterprise 2.0
This quote (emphasis mine) comes from , and speaks to some core fundamentals of what for me is a big part of “Enterprise 2.0″ or “social business”. It’s the hard part, the change.
No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there.
And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.
And that is as it should be. Because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new.
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Uncertain, Yet Exciting Times
0382 days
by Simon Scullion
in Enterprise 2.0
Photo Credit: by
Friend and colleague earlier today passed me this post from of fame: , which contains this inspirational line:
the industrial age is finally coming to an end and to achieve economic development and social justice we need to rebuild civilization around a new set of norms and values.
This hit right home. We are living in uncertain, yet exciting times, much like our predecessors did, during what we now term the .
Whether we call it Enterprise 2.0, social collaboration, or social business is pretty irrelevant, but for those of us working in this space in the enterprise, I truly believe this is what we’re really about. This is what we’re doing with our companies. We are helping them recognise the end of one age, and helping them adapt and move into another.
I think it’s important we don’t lose sight of this bigger picture, the scale and importance of this, as we deal with the realities of the day to day.
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PS: Don, I have a copy of Macrowikinomics which I am desperately trying to find the time to read, I’ll get there, please bear with me!
“New-Generation Workers” Want Technology Their Way
21172 days
by Simon Scullion
in Technology
Today I caught a discussion on the findings of a .
Millennial generation students and employees (those aged 14 to 27) expect to use their own technology and mobile devices for work and are increasingly choosing their place of employment based on how accommodating companies are to their personal technology preferences
Yet more evidence demonstrating how our consumer technology choices are making their way into the workplace, meaning that the companies that best accommodate these demands will gain a competitive advantage through attracting, and most importantly, retaining, the best young talent.
Observing this, it appears we are increasingly demanding in our requirements for consumer technology, increasingly fickle with our choices and loyalties, and increasingly adept at managing the change new technology presents us.
Yet this often goes against our corporate mandated use of technology, where we are stuck in our old ways, show blind loyalty to old technology, and told that change is painful and risky! (I’d love you to chip in with candidates for each category! 
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So why is this still the case?
Will the “Millennial generation” win over their elders?