Gideon Rosenblatt

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Name: Gideon Rosenblatt
Date registered: September 6, 2010
URL: http://alchemyofchange.net

Latest posts

  1. The Sole of a Business — February 2, 2012
  2. Quiznos and the Old Business Model — January 26, 2012
  3. When Personal Brands and Corporate Brands Collide — January 25, 2012
  4. Testing G+ WordPress integration — January 20, 2012
  5. Four Ways to Improve Our Online Emotional Intelligence — September 9, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Twitter is Not a Social Network — 50 comments
  2. The Sole of a Business — 18 comments
  3. “Third-Order” Engagement — 17 comments
  4. Balancing Tasks & Relationships – The Art of Engagement — 12 comments
  5. “Friend Discovery” Revolutionizes How Organizations Collaborate — 12 comments

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The Sole of a Business

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February 2, 2012

My Sad Shoe

Shoe repair man, Mr. Lee, teaches me the beauty of business and its ability to be of service to society.

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Quiznos and the Old Business Model

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January 26, 2012

Quiznos Old Ways

The Quiznos near-bankruptcy highlights the dangers of the old model for running business networks: one that uses outsourcing of value creation in an exploitive fashion.

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When Personal Brands and Corporate Brands Collide

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January 25, 2012

Whose Tweet is It Anyway

Individual people are the connective tissue that connects organizations to their surroundings. So what happens when those people leave an organization, along with the social network connections they built while at the company?

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Testing G+ WordPress integration

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January 20, 2012

#gwp Google+: View post on Google+

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Four Ways to Improve Our Online Emotional Intelligence

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September 9, 2011

Emotional Intelligence

It’s one of the great tragedies of modern life that our amazing capacity for emotional intelligence gets short-circuited online. We need software that helps us not only retain, but augment our online emotional intelligence. Here are four areas to focus on and a plea for injecting anthropology into our software development process.

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How to Strengthen Your Organization’s Influence Mapping

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June 24, 2011

Lots of targets, lots of influence

Part 4 of 4: Organizations that are permeable are more open to influence from their external environment. That makes them more resilient and able to align themselves with market forces. Being open to influence is only one aspect of permeability, however. The other crucial aspect of permeability is being able to exert influence. As I’ve …

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Influence: the Flip Side of Permeability

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June 22, 2011

I am you and you are me

Part 3 of 4: Doing effective influence mapping isn’t easy, just as creating effective geographic maps isn’t easy. To be useful, the map needs to describe the actual terrain – and for that, you need people who understand how the decisions that impact your desired outcome actually get made. Not how you wish they get made, …

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5 Steps to Influence Mapping

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June 20, 2011

Influence: getting them to melt in your hands

Part 2 of 4: As Walmart’s move to sustainability illustrates, when you scratch below the surface of most institutional change, there’s usually a handful of relationships that play a disproportionately large role in bringing those changes about. That’s part of the reason it’s hard to truly separate institutional change from personal change. Each of us depends on our ability …

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Change Happens Through People – Even at Walmart

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June 16, 2011

Walmart

Part 1 of 4: Marc Gunther just reviewed Force of Change, the story of Walmart’s conversion to sustainable business practices. When the world’s largest public corporation makes any big change, it’s noteworthy. But this change could very well help save the world. It’s not just the direct environmental impact of Walmart’s new business practices, but the ripple …

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How the Web Transforms Consumerism and What That Means to Organizations

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June 7, 2011

“The eyes are the mirror of the soul”

The web has changed a lot of things about the way we consume media. It’s flipped our primary communications infrastructure from a one-way, to a two-way flow of information – and that change in the way we communicate is redefining who we are. Businesses and organizations of all types need to understand that their customers …

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