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20 New Management Styles in Corporates
1) MANAGING BY WALKING FASTER THEN THE EMPLOYEES
These kind of managers you will always see in the corridor, ten steps away. "We'll have to talk" you can hear them say, just as they have disappeared around the corner.
2) MANAGING BY STARING OUT OF THE WINDOW
These managers you usually meet with their backside faced to you with their hands in their pockets. When you talk to them, their thoughts keep staring out of the windows.
3) MANAGING BY POST-IT'S
Some managers forget everything. They want to impress you with their 'busy'ness by continuously writing on Post-it's while you are talking.
4) MANAGING BY DELEGATION TO THE SECRETARY
These managers just delegate everything to the secretary. If He is good, He knows what she must do.
5) MANAGING BY KNOWING NOTHING
These managers don't really know anything at all. They let YOU give answers. Meanwhile they fill the time with nice anecdotes of irrelevant cases.
6) MANAGING BY CONCEPTUAL THINKING
These people try to explain the present from a theoretical view of the far future. The idea that this never will work, completely satisfies them: They will always have something to talk about.
7) MANAGING BY HIDING INFORMATION
Information hiders are aware of the market value of strictly secret kept information. You must be very thankful to get any information at all. Beware of simulants from category 5!
8) MANAGING BY DOING EXACTLY WHAT THE BOSS SAYS
These managers prevent their bosses from creative thinking. Else they got more work to do.
9) MANAGING BY WALKING ONE FOOT BEHIND THE BOSS
In hierarchical organizations you can watch those groups walking in the corridor. The more equal managers are directly followed by the lesser equal managers, and so on.
10) MANAGING BY SMILING AND WEARING NICE SUITS
If you drink beer with them, lunch with them, smile to them and also wear nice suits, nothing can stop your career anymore.
11) MANAGING BY STUDYING
Despite their continual attendances of all kind of studies and congresses, they still belong to category 5. The longer they learn, the further they get from the practice.
12) MANAGING BY CREATING VAGUE OVERHEAD SHEETS
Do you know them? Those sheets with some big arrows, boxes or circles? These sheets provide the ultimate proof of their overall brilliance.
13) MANAGING BY OPEN DOOR AND EMPTY ROOM
This is a major improvement of the older 'OPEN DOOR' management style. Now you can really walk in and out anytime you want. Nobody ever knows where these managers are.
14) MANAGING BY SPEAKING WITH OTHER MANAGERS
This kind of managing is very popular. It will give them within a few hours the same information as an employee can tell them in 15 minutes.
15) MANAGING BY HAVING A NON SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE
In an organization with a hopeless infrastructure, managers are really necessary. These managers will naturally prevent the organization from having a better infrastructure.
16) BUA MANAGEMENT (BY USING ABBREVIATIONS)
This management style is ATRASACWOC. ( Adopted To Reach A Shorter And Clearer Way Of Communication)
17) MANAGING BY USING BUZZ WORDS
These managers like to bluff your head off with hip, nearly undefined, terms.
18) MANAGING BY REORGANIZATION
If they think there is nothing more to organize, they reorganize.
19) MANAGING BY BELIEVING
These managers must be spiritual educated, because they have no clues at all.
20) MANAGING BY FORGETTING PROMISES
If you remind them to one of their promisses, the priority of that promise is to low to remember.
How The Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies Are Using Social Media
This is quite an interesting study due to the fact it looks at the 500 fastest growing companies in the USA and how they are using Social Media.
The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth recently conducted a new in-depth and statistically significant study on the usage of social media in fast-growing corporations.
The new study compares adoption of social media over three years (2007, 2008 and 2009) by the Inc. 500, a list of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies compiled annually by Inc. Magazine. For details about the 2009 Inc. 500 and the complete directory of the included companies, please visit Inc. Magazine’s website at www.Inc.com.
In 2007, the Center’s first study of this group and their use of social media was released and revealed that the Inc. 500 was outpacing the more traditional and larger Fortune 500 companies in their use of social media. For example, at that time, some research showed
- 8% of the Fortune 500 companies were blogging compared to
- 19% of the Inc. 500.
This difference continued in 2008 with
- 16% of the Fortune 500 blogging vs.
- 39% of the Inc. 500.
And it appears the Inc. 500’s lead in blogging will continue in 2009 with the Inc. 500 now blogging at a rate of
- 45%. (The update on the Fortune 500 is expected soon.).
Note: There has been a 237% increase in blogging by the USA’s 500 fastest growing companies,it is also interesting to note that significant 41% of those who don’t have a blog are intending to implement one.
This research proves once again that social media has penetrated parts of the business world at a tremendous speed. It also indicates that corporate familiarity with and usage of social media within the Inc. 500 has continued to grow in the past 12 months.
Questions probed the familiarity of respondents with six prominent social media (blogging, podcasting, online video, social networking, message boards and wikis). In order to maintain the integrity of all comparisons, all those tools studied in the first two studies were included in this followup research.
In 2009, several new tools were added including the popular microblogging service Twitter and other popular social networking sites like Linkedin, Facebook, and MySpace.
7 Highlights
- Social networking continues to lead the way. The technology that continues to be the most familiar to the Inc. 500 is social networking with 75% of respondents in 2009 claiming to be “very familiar with it” (compared to 57% in 2008). Another noteworthy statistic around familiarity is Twitter’s amazing “share of mind” with sixty-two percent of executives reported being familiar with the new microblogging and social networking platform.
- The adoption curves for different social media technologies are not all the same. Interestingly, while social networking and blogging have enjoyed growth in actual adoption, the use of message boards, online video, wikis and podcasting has leveled off or declined. The addition of Twitter (considered by respondents to be both a microblogging site and a social networking site) in the latest study shows that an amazing 52% of the Inc. 500 companies are already using this tool for their business.
- Regardless of the particular technology, social media matters and is here to stay. Forty-three percent of the 2009 Inc. 500 reported social media was “very important” to their business/marketing strategy. And an incredible 91% of the Inc. 500 is using at least one social media tool in 2009 (up from 77% in 2008). In addition, as they ramp up their usage, the Inc. 500 companies are also seeking to protect themselves legally, with 36% having implemented a formal policy concerning blogging by their employees.
- Social Media that has levelled off or declined are
- Message Boards 28%
- Online Video 36%
- Wikis 25%
- Podcasting 12%
- Social Media that has increased
- Social Networking 80%
- Blogging 45%
- Twitter 52%
- Online Video though slightly declining in use in corporations, their intent to to adopt appears strong with 36% planning to to use online video, just behind Blogging
- For monitoring conversations online on social media about their brand, 68% of companies were doing this in 2009
So are you planning to use social media or blog?
via jeffbullas.com
To Follow or not to Follow: Das ist die Frage
Gestern hatte ich eine interessante Unterhaltung zur Frage, ob Corporate Twitter-Accounts, also Accounts von Firmen, Verbänden oder Medien, ihre Follower Re-Followen sollen. Bei Verbänden könnte man zusätzlich die Einschränkung machen, dass sie das Followen auf ihre Mitglieder beschränken (sollten diese überhaupt als solche erkennbar sein).
Die eine Meinung sagt, dass Followen eine Art von Zuhören ist, und das gehört auch bei Twitter mit dazu. Dem steht die andere Meinung gegenüber, wonach Corporate Twitterer Körperschaften sind und dass - insbesondere bei Medien - das Followen nicht angesagt ist. Ich sehe in Twitter beides und habe darum via twtpoll eine Umfrage gestartet:
(Das ist mein erster Tweet Poll, wie ihn ganz in posterous einbette, habe ich noch nicht herausgefunden. Vielleicht hilft mir jemand?)
Amazing Coca Cola corporate data visualization from Germany
How cool is this site? Talk about sexy presentation of corporate data! This is what all analyst should be producing to get internal buy in for their work.
Check out the Coke data site for yourself under:
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Corporate leaders Vote Earth
Global corporations are looking to the Copenhagen climate summit (COP15) in December to provide them with direction to invest in a low carbon future, according to Mark Johnson, CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia.
PwC Australia cast their vote for Earth with a 23 per cent reduction of their overall emissions last financial year, and has set themselves a 50 per cent emissions reduction target by 2012.
"Responsible businesses from around the globe are eager for COP15 to deliver a framework for global reduction and management of carbon emissions,” said Mr Johnson.
An illustration of the corporate world’s readiness to embrace a global low carbon directive, PwC Australia in 2008 became the first professional services firm to go completely carbon neutral and has a three-year program to move entirely to renewable energy.
“In-principle agreement to such a framework will provide the business community with the certainty and confidence to invest in a low carbon future." Mr Johnson said.
PwC Australia produces an annual, independently verified, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Report.
With the eyes of the corporate world fixed firmly on the outcome of the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen next month, PwC Australia has joined the growing list of corporate supporters finding their own way to Vote Earth.
Every business, individual or community group can Vote Earth. Any positive action you take to reduce your carbon footprint can be your vote. Visit earthhour.org and find out how you can cast your vote for Earth.
How is your company casting its Vote for Earth?
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