Welcome to my new website, and the “disruptively good business” of The Vital Edge.
The Vital Edge
Disruptively good business for world-changing companies and the humans who build them.The Alchemy of Change is no longer active, but its spirit lives on at The Vital Edge.
Come have a look.
More Alchemy
The Soulful Company
TEDx talk on The Soulful Company
Category Archive: Engagement & Collaboration
Klout, Influence, and the Future of Business
Klout helps companies better understand the influence of employees and customers, and this opens the firm more fully to the outside world. Despite its many problems, Klout not only symbolizes the growing importance of influence in marketing, but the increasingly permeable nature of the firm.
Week in Review: May 14, 2012
Four mini-posts on: Google’s new ‘knowledge graph” and the semantic web, the sad story of Flickr (and CarPoint), why Justin Bieber has a higher Klout score than President Obama, and the future of market research. Phew…
Soulful Work – My Interview with Big Life
An interview with Shelly Immel from Big Life, where she helps me cut to the essence of my work on making business a better force for good in the world.
Testing the Wisdom of Crowds
When we make it possible for people to aggregate their wisdom in independent, diverse and decentralized ways, the resulting “wisdom of the crowds” can be uncannily accurate. I just tested that on Google+, and here are my results.
We Are The Filter Bubble
Computer algorithms aren’t the only thing contributing to the “Internet Filter Bubble.” Who we choose to connect with in our social networks deeply affects who is “curating” the content we consume. Here’s why diversity in your social network matters.
Place-Based Networks: A New Kind of Social Network
Place-Based Networks are mobile social networks that help you connect with other people based on your shared interest in a place.
When Personal Brands and Corporate Brands Collide
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?
An Exercise in Balancing Engagement
Many of you know that I write a lot about engagement and think about it as “the process of building relationships with people and putting those relationships to work to accomplish some goal.” This exercise is designed to help you better balance this tension between tasks and relationships.
