First of all, please go here and take two minutes to answer half a dozen brief questions about attending conferences. What changes are required in traditional conferences in order to take advantages of these ongoing conversations? Could the downturn change the shape of traditional conferences permanently? Tags: change MORE >>

History can be a useful guide to the future, especially when trying to predict the impact of disruptive changes on human organizations and cultures.  I was reminded of this dictum when recently attending a very interesting workshop, Payment Technologies: Past Present and Future. It is part of UC Irvine’s School of Social Sciences.    . MORE >>

In 1989, Warren Bennis predicted the following: “Given the nature and constancy of change and the transnational challenges facing business leadership, the key to making the right choices will come from understanding and embodying the leadership qualities necessary to succeed in the volatile and mercurial global economy.”. And You? MORE >>

The rules have changed. Most damaging of all, we respond to tomorrow’s questions with yesterday’s answers. Tossing around on a sea of turbulent change, companies that can’t respond to new situations rapidly are sunk. The coming of the network age is as big a change as any of us are likely to see. Phase change. MORE >>

Headed for my personal trash bin:  ‘People, Process, Technology.’  For the rest, technology should enable serendipity rather than predictive process. It may be People, Organization, Technology; although we should not be in a rush to replace a failed triplet with another.  This isn’t the right question.  MORE >>