Month: March 2009

Why do businesses love social media? I have come across many executives from various countries and diverse backgrounds, and it seems that they fall in either of 2 categories: those who love and those who hate Social Media (née Web 2.0). To many a big logo, social media is fascinating…

Managing one's online reputation has become a must. It is absolutely unthinkable for anyone who wants to make a professional appointment to leave a photograph on one's facebook profile in which he or she is holding a glass of champagne and assuming weird poses (and God knows I came across…

When innovating wrong questions are the right questions. On March 4th, 2009, I was able to meet and have breakfast with, at last, and after a few missed opportunities,  Alain Thys in Paris. Alain is one of the partners of futurelab, a consultancy based in Belgium (of which he originates)…

Catherine Hearn – a seasoned expert at Heidrick & Struggles, an exec search company, and a Bnet columnist,  has this interesting story on Bnet about job seeking in the current downturn. And I think she has a very valid point. After all, if an executive search is saying that there are…