Social technologies have the power to transform enterprises into ecosystems teaming with innovative approaches, fresh solutions and dramatic decisions. How can you augment people’s natural capabilities with social tools to build relationships into a modern source of influence, creating more energy than they consume?

1. . . . because a dumb workforce never made sense.
March 5, 2013
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34 Gigabytes. 1,005,000 words. 147
newspapers-worth of information. Each day.

3. Source of this stat and many more on my webiste at http://j.mp/sobiznumbers
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1 in 2 business leaders say they don’t have
access to information needed to do their jobs.

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1 in 7 change efforts fail because personal
change isn’t addressed with the people it affects.

5. We are all here alone, together.
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6. The brain forms 100 trillion connections.
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7. The job is to get big and strong, fast.
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8. CC Joan M. Mas http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailypic/1459055735/
Highly engaged employees are 87% less likely to leave
their organizations than highly disengaged employees.

9. together, connected.
We construct, create, discover, and succeed
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10. open, and constant.
Our world is increasingly mobile, connected,
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11. CC Malix http://www.flickr.com/photos/mallix/2586969604/
“I store my knowledge in my friends.”
Karen Stephenson

12. feel out of focus.
In a connected world, moments of isolation
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13. CC Andy Powe http://www.flickr.com/photos/andypowe11/4124475000/
What obstacles are keeping people from
doing what they were hired to do?

14. welcoming our stories.
Even when we feel stuck, others are there
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15. Start slow. Yet go.
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16. CC Atomic Shed http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicshed/2405112751/
“Tools don't get socially interesting until they
get technologically boring.” Clay Shirky

17. CC Thomas Hawk http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/4235550946/
“Move from command and control to
encourage and engage.” Jane Hart

18. How do you feel about social tools? " What are your colleagues currently doing with social
tools? You customers? Your partners?
What project that you’re personally responsible Demonstrate your interest in being at the table by
for that would benefit from social tools?
listening, learning and participating actively.
Get clear. Get informed. "
Get ideating. Get going.

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Play your heart out. The band’s with you. "
A crowd is waiting. Connect.

20. We are better together, connected."
Would you please connect?
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