(Click to learn more about this fine team on LinkedIn)

Unless the price is unsustainably aggressive it is, however, not specs that will guarantee mass market adoption. Yes, it will work in niche markets such as Tourism, high-risk environments and co-connected knowledge sharing but it feels like a solution looking for a problem. Much like the Segway, which did for transportation what Glass may do for mobility: Huge hype and great inspiration but little consumer reaction.

Glass does, however, have one thing the Segway never had: Apps. Glass will soar or go stale dependent on the apps that makes the augmented reality truly worth the look.

Google Glass

• CfL og DONG har udviklet den ultimative ledelsestræning for offshore CoReps
• Offshore ledertræning har tydeliggjort rollen som leder uden personaleansvar

Klik videre på CfLs nye hjemmeside og læs mere der…

Cover of the new magazine available as a Flipboard channel.

Yes, Bitrain – as in Big Data BIT-raining and BI-Training – is also part of this site; the above initiative is simply a faster and smarter way to collect and share articles we may need in the future.

What do you think?

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Rikke Lindekilde discussing Distance Leadership

It was an inspiring conversation with some important take aways. Besides a few surprising best practice one-liners like “give your team a travel day at home“, “plan the spontaneous coffee breaks” and “trust in change may need structure“, I suggest the following six highlights to be worth a thought:

• Distance Leadership is nothing new, the Romans did it. It just happens for more, faster and with greater potential. As much a revolution as urbanization and globalization, it is now almost a post-geographical world, where a surprising number of jobs can be done almost anywhere for anybody.
• Distance Leadership makes good conventional leadership better and turns bad to worse. Distance Leadership amplifies both the good and the bad, greatly. As the old adage: “You’re only a leader, if you are being followed” — going virtual in terms of presence makes it all the more important to be proactively observant; the small stuff you see as you move physically amongst your peers will be missing from your virtual eyesight.
• Distance Leadership requires aligned expectations and new ground rules – a Contract of Collaboration – motivationally framed as the 3P agreement of Purpose, Product and Process: Agreeing WHY we do it and then WHAT to do and HOW to do it. The latter being very specific in terms of chosen digital tools and timing in which such connections are expected and/or allowed.
• Consider using Social Network Analysis as a measurement of how people communicate compared to how they should and would. Strong Social Network Analysis will reveal pivotal players and potential isolation, which you must investigate.
• Satisfy all three factors that is required in a group for people to be truly attached: Shared space – a “room” that is ours. Social potential – we have the opportunity to reach out and “touch” each other. Vocalized community – leadership highlighting the advantages and obligations of the belonging.
• Consider a “Facebook for Business” solution to increase the social potential. Solutions like Podio and Yammer offer critical functional mass to be worth the time of your group. Seek to offload e-mail and make leader’s participation mandatory — they must drive the effort until content harvest and situational awareness itself will carry  the effort.

In addition the discussions confirmed many related comments and recommendations on communication and ePresence from my book “Unplugged – your path to authentic leadership“: Leverage advantages of synchronous vs asynchronous communication. Consider bandwidth in the perspective of facts vs emotions. Remember trust consists of “can” and “will” — and “will” requires presence to be fully appreciated!

And finally — always remember Tom Wujek’s profound and abundantly wise conclusion:

Culture eats strategy for breakfast

Unless you address cultural issues first, a strategy of Distance Leadership will fail. As noted: Distance Leadership will make the good better — and vice versa.

• A big bouquet of the best tools in the leader’s toolbox
• Recommended on the desk of every leader
• Relevant and engaged reading for all leaders

Having used it in many different events and workshops, I’m happy to say that I’m starting to agree. It really does appear to cover the ground and be worth the read.

Click to visit the list and look for the “See Presentation” or “Se præsentationen” depending on the language of the discussed material, English or Danish.

Particular Prezi-presentations are also listed on the Prezi Samples page.

Klik og kig, Unplugged Prezi’en indeholder en række væsentlige pointer fra LUFPA-rollen og fra Unplugged-bogen.

Uden forbehold en god, givende og udbytterig eftermiddag, ikke mindst takke være DONG E&Ps Eigil Hannestad, der leverede dokumentation med CoRep programmet, hvis afsæt i Unplugged og LUFPA-rollen er gjort obligatorisk for alle DONGs Offshore Company Representatives!

It worked; it simply did — as generously tweeted by a satisfied Norwegian participant, who collaboratively shared experiences and cases.

The entire flow followed the 9 realizations and was created in one Prezi, where all the pages had fallen out on to the desktop and then path’d together. As an overview, it looked like this:

Unplugged pages path’ed together

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Frank Tyger.

As stated, I truly believe in happiness as part of the process, not something that will come in the end as a reward. Add the quote and we, that is I, need to do more of what is freely chosen while taking the necessary time-outs to appreciate if and when it is liked as well.

If this is not self-evident, a little help for the engineering brain:

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