As leaders and managers we need to avoid committing two of the biggest 'crimes' associated with our role...
1. That everyone will be motivated by the same things that motivate us.2. Gravitating towards people who are like us, and away from people who are not like us. [...]
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Twice this week I’ve heard Scottish business leaders say that young employees are lazy. Not ‘that person is lazy’ but ‘young people are lazy these days’. Really?
How many other business leaders think that way? Are young people lazier these days, or is it just that the ‘older’ generation have never understood younger people? [...]
Over the last couple of years there has been a staggering growth in social networking. Let’s look at three examples that help to illustrate the scale of this growth.
Twitter is the current ‘must have’ site, and has an audience that grew to 2 million users from 200,000 between 2007 and 2008 (USA Today), and it is still growing exponentially. It’s used by businesses like NASA, and people like Barrack Obama. Time magazine described Twitter as being ‘on its way to becoming the next killer app’. What is incredible is that Twitter is based on on only one question: ‘What Are You Doing?’ [...]