Jay Cross

JUNE 29, 2011

TechCrunch reports that “Social enterprise giant Jive is releasing a study today, called the Jive Social Business Index, which surveyed 902 US-?based executives at large and mid-sized companies on their views of social in the enterprise. The study revealed that Social Business is increasingly perceived as a strategic executive imperative in the enterprise, with 78 percent of the executives surveyed admitting that having a social strategy is critical to the future success of their businesse

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Jay Cross

JUNE 29, 2011

I caught up with former telecom exec Marie Bjerede after a three day retreat in North Carolina. We were hunkered down at the Asheville airport waiting for a brooding storm to pass by. Marie describes managing a team of 70 leaders. Marie’s program is a near-perfect fit with Steven Denning’s concept of Radical Management. What she did supports William Gibson’s observation that the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

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