For decades I have worked with leaders from every sector helping them develop and execute strategies to better engage myriad stakeholders in order to achieve goals. In the past decade, the explosion of social media has increased everyone’s inter-dependence and thus this work only has become more important. So, now I’m asking you to engage in a different way: on social media platforms. Please post comments on and/or links to my on-line articles, including two published by Huffington Post: Improving Stakeholder Engagement Increases Productivity, Profit and Sustainability (SRE); Engagement Leadership and Enhanced Relationships Fundamental to Sustaining Effective Business (EL); one published on THAP, The New Rules of Social Engagement and a series published on ReWiring Business. I’m interested in your thoughts... more
Reflections
This past month I’ve dedicated several hours each week to become more engaged on social media platforms. For decades I’ve guided clients on how to engage with a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Since Sept 2010, as Executive-in-Residence at IMD, I’ve taught participants in executive education programs comparable skills and written articles about it. As I’ve always focused on the importance of connectedness and how to achieve it, I felt the need to spread my wings in this time of social networks and, as with all else of value, learning is in doing. Just as I’ve “met” and now actively engage with interesting people since I’ve been on Twitter, I am discovering a whole new community on XeeMe and I am... more
When I was about 20 years old I spent a contemplative day with a friend who told me later that the entire day I’d said three words, “life, death, friend.” Four decades later the significance of those words still sticks with me. I shared them recently with the same friend who had just emerged from a coma after a serious bicycle accident and went through a remarkable recovery resuming his teaching. I now add one word: family. I think those four words pretty much sum up everything of importance, perhaps with “empathy” thrown in for good measure. Just last week, another friend, John Payton, President of NAACP Legal Defense Fund and a giant in human rights law, died unexpectedly. With... more
