silos

I originally wrote today's post for CallidusCloudCX; it was published on their blog on July 26, 2017.

I’ve been mulling over a debate for the past few weeks and haven’t been able to resolve it, so I thought I’d share it here and get your input.

We are now seeing conferences dedicated solely to Twitter—the latest was Jeff Pulver's 140Char held in NYC. Like many others who were not at the event, I was able to attend virtually through following tweets. After a while I thought to myself—wait a minute, we're still just talking about "social media" in silos. What about the bigger picture? And what do you ask is the big picture?

Great question.

by: Sigurd Rinde

If you like the occasional blinding flash of the obvious there's a book out - Management rewired: Why feedback doesn't work and other surprising lessons from the latest brain science by Charles S. Jacobs.

Basically takeaway is that the annual performance review is for the birds, and boss pressure is of dubious value.

by: Karl Long

It's funny, I would suggest that Apple and Google probably have very different design processes and certainly a very different culture so what is the common denominator?