by Joe McKendrick
August 18, 2010 at 10:31 am
· Filed under Enterprise 2.0, Social Computing, Social Media, Social Networking, User Revolution, Web 2.0, Wisdom of Crowds, Work 2.0
Social enterprises don’t just spring out of some primordial corporate soup, they need good leaders to get them to the promised tribal lands. And we’re not talking about aggressive, power-obsessed leaders — the new leaders for the Business 2.0 organization need to be willing to let their communities take the lead with new initiatives.
Our FastForward friend Francois Gossieaux, along with co-author Ed Moran, has just published a new book that leads managers and business leaders through this new connected economy, titled The Hyper-Social Organization: Eclipse Your Competition by Leveraging Social Media.
There are many great points raised in the book, and I’ll focus on Francois and Ed’s discussion on what it takes to manage and lead a Hyper-Social enterprise.
Interestingly, the good news about all this is you don’t need to move the mountains and the sea to get to hyper-social nirvana. “You don’t need to do away with hierarchies, as some pundits would have you believe, nor do you have to fear that social media will destroy them — it won’t. ” (aw, shucks…)
But there will be strongly linked communities of employees, customers, and prospects forming within your orbit as a result. They will be part of your hierarchies, and they will be outside the walls of your organization. Questions you need to ask of your managers and leaders include: “Have we challenged ourselves hard enough in evaluating everything we do?” “If we could restart the company tomorrow, what would it look like?”
Francois and Ed also identified the eight essential qualities Hyper-Social leaders need to embrace:
- They behave like humans and demand that their people do too.
- They ditch the rule books and embrace values.
- They live their values.
- They trust their people and create trusted environments.
- The embrace transparency.
- They embrace diversity.
- They never compromise on the quality of the people they surround themselves with.
- They let go of control.
Not only do Hyper-Social enterprises need a new way of leadership, but this extends to talent as well. As pointed out above, moving to a social enterprise doesn’t require a great overnight upheaval. But there is a need to bring forward enlightened individuals who understand the power of social media and know how to effectively communicate across these new channels.
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BKneuerAugust 18th, 2010 at 4:07 pm |
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Reading: Hyper-Social Enterprise: What it Takes to Lead One http://ow.ly/2rBsf
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Oh dear >> “@GavinHeaton: Reading: Hyper-Social Enterprise: What it Takes to Lead One http://ow.ly/2rBsf”
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Hyper-Social Enterprise: What it Takes to Lead One
by Joe McKendrick http://ow.ly/2rIP5 Yeah but where can you find those leaders?
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Good summary – Hyper-Social Enterprise: What it Takes to Lead One http://bit.ly/aJyb7o
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soafaqAugust 19th, 2010 at 12:16 pm |
RT @joemckendrick: Hyper-Social Enterprise: What it Takes to Lead One: Behave like a human and demand that your people do too… http://ow.ly/2rBsf
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Reading: Hyper-Social Enterprise: What it Takes to Lead One http://bit.ly/cAveIl by @joemckendrick @ffblog @IGLOOSoftware
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soafaqSeptember 1st, 2010 at 9:21 am |
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Recommended reading for leaders and CEOs – “Hyper-Social Enterprise: What it Takes to Lead One” http://twurl.nl/qbxbas
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RT @eugenelee: Recommended reading for leaders and CEOs – “Hyper-Social Enterprise: What it Takes to Lead One” http://twurl.nl/qbxbas
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@grahamhill this is the couplet I paraphrased in the post BTW:
न चोरहार्यम् न च राजहार्यम् न भ्रातृभाज्यम् न च भारकारि ।
व्यये कृते वर्धत एव नित्यम् विद्या धनम् सर्वधनप्रदानम् ॥
na chOra hAryam na cha rAja hAryam na bhAatr bhAjyam nacha bhArakAri
vyayE krtE vardhata Eva nityam vidyA dhanam sarva dhana pradhAnam
Cannot be stolen, cannot be taken away by the king (taxed/confiscated), cannot be divided among brothers, nor is it heavy. Grows when spent daily, Wealth of Knowledge is the prime amongst all types of wealth.
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