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Three Ways to Strengthen a Collaborative Culture
Collaboration is like a muscle: the more you use it, the stronger it gets. And research is clear that organizations and teams with a collaborative culture feel better and produce more. So, how do you create and strengthen a collaborative culture? In a recent visit to the Gladstone…
Amazon Prime’s Random Approach To Productivity
Amazon. The Behemoth of Booksellers. The Disruptor of Retail. The Patron Saint of the US Postal Service (their Prime saved USPS’s bacon). Amazon. The Paragon of Predictive Analytics. The Role Model of Recommendation Systems. Given Amazon’s obsession with data and…
Virtual Reality Needs to Go Social to Benefit KM
Driving a Rover on Mars? Touring Valen's Reef in the Bird’s Head Seascape international preserve? Reliving Hurricane Sandy as the waters rose? I had a chance to experience all three of these in virtual reality (VR) at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival. All three experiences would have been…
5 Tips From Adam Grant on How to Speak Up Without Getting Shot Down
Adam Grant is a supremely practical management guru with a well-deserved reputation based on his popularity as the youngest full professor at Wharton Business School, two best-selling books and a much-read Sunday New York Times contributor. (He might be the next Peter Drucker.) My very first BTBI…
Is Attending Aspen Ideas Festival on Your Bucket List?
If attending the Aspen Ideas Festival isn’t on your bucket list, you might consider adding it. Every summer, one thousand movers and shakers, CEOs, authors, politicians, pundits, and artists gather to share the biggest ideas of the day and seek solutions to the world’s pressing problems. I had…
One Easy Tip to Be More Productive from Charles Duhigg
Being the head of a productivity center, I am on a lifelong quest to increase my own productivity and happiness. I never seem to get enough done: my “to do” list is always bigger than my “TA DA – it’s done!” list. Imagine my delight when Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the…
That Machine is a Better Storyteller Than Me
I am willing to bet that machines wrote some of the emails, spider crawls, and media alerts that come across your screen every day. A grizzled sports writer didn’t write the recap of the baseball game; most weather alerts and forecasts weren’t written by a meteorologist; financial analyses and…
Is Anxiety Infecting Your Corporate Workspace?
(Third and final installment in my series on Chip Conley and Airbnb) I tease Chip Conley that it seems to be his destiny to be a serial disruptor of the hospitality industry, first as founder and former CEO of Joie de Vivre, the second largest boutique hotel company in America, and now as the…
How Airbnb Builds Trust, Engagement, and Community Through Peer-to-Peer Ratings
(Part Two of a three-part series on Chip Conley and Airbnb.) Building trust and engagement—something every KM and community manager should know how to do, right? It never goes away as a hot issue and continues to be one of the most-asked questions APQC gets from our customers. APQC has provided…
Through the Looking Glass: Alice, Analytics, and Airbnb's Workspace of the Future
(The first of a three-part series on lessons from the sharing economy for the way we work.) Airbnb's Workspace of the Future Last week, I was treated to an inside look at the headquarters of Airbnb—an icon of the new sharing economy. The home-sharing Internet behemoth has hosts and rentals…