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Becoming a Social Business -- Beyond Culture Change

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The usual culprits are the hapless organizational culture closely followed by hierarchy and leadership lethargy. We have become accustomed to blaming the culture of an organization for the failure of any initiative, and more so when the change calls for redefining and re-imagining how people work and interact.

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Social Learning is Voluntary; Collaboration Platforms are Enablers

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This feeling of being in competition leads to an internal organizational culture of knowledge hoarding as a source of power and growth. What this eventually leads to is a culture where sharing and collaboration is internally stifled. The culture of the organization does. Collaboration culture social learning'

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Managing Diversity through Community Management

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On the positive front, I have been doing a lot of reading—mostly around organizational behavior, organizational development, culture and diversity, motivation and communication, and how these relate to social business and knowledge management. And I don't like it at all. But I am slowly getting back on track. I think my biggest Aha!

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Integrating Social Learning in the Workplace

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It has to be integrated into the culture and the organizational way of working and being. Social learning is much more a cultural outcome than a process or a program to be followed. However, what most organizations forgot is the culture change required. Changing the organization culture is. And therein lies the problem.

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The Changing Nature of Workplace Learning

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To make the change stick, to foster engagement on the ESNs and to create communities in the workplaces, it is essential to dig deeper into the organizational culture. Gautam Ghosh''s post on How Organizational Culture is the Key to Social Business Success is a succinct summary of the key points.

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Week's Learning #2

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link] … What Great Companies Know About Culture - @HarvardBiz [link] … #culture Although this post is more than 3 years old and #culture has been discussed ad infinitum, it’s still one of those elusive organizational aspects that everyone talks about in vague terms. Six Components of a Great Corporate #Culture - Vision.

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L&D needs New Skills

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Add to that a bit of a cultural sauce, and we have employees waiting to be told what to do, how to do it, and relinquishing control over their professional development. A study by Geert Hofstede on Cultural Dimensions helps us to view this through a different set of lenses. That was a bit of a detour.

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