Comments on: Some more musings on corporate culture and social media http://adamchristensen.com/2009/02/27/some-more-musings-on-corporate-culture-and-social-media/ Fri, 25 May 2012 05:52:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dolores http://adamchristensen.com/2009/02/27/some-more-musings-on-corporate-culture-and-social-media/#comment-206 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:01:51 +0000 http://adamchristensen.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/some-more-musings-on-corporate-culture-and-social-media/#comment-206 Speaking of which, Adam, I’d like to see your take on the threats of severance/no severance by management to employees over 50 with 30 years who are fired and have to train their underskilled overseas replacements. Even better are the carrots offered to those who aren’t retirement eligible and are fired months short of that eligibility of a job that isn’t really there. Gitmo has nothing on IBM management.

And your take on the 10K employees fired since January. How DO the big boys sleep at night, knowing that 10K lives have been disrupted if not ruined?

How do they justify it in their heads?

Too bad the employees left intact are too afraid and too cowed to unionize. The momentum was lost in 1999, when IBM screwed their longtime employees out of the promised lifetime retiree medical and, for the third time, changed the pension formula so that retirees would get less in their paycheck.

Oh, and do you have a pipeline to Sammy boy? I’d LOVE to hear how he is going to live on only $20K a day in HIS retirement pension. Did anyone ask that question at this year’s shareholder meeting, or were there armed guards to prevent questions from the little people?

By the way, the JAM sessions were as comical as opinion surveys. Don’t ask, don’t tell.

]]> By: Beth Kanter http://adamchristensen.com/2009/02/27/some-more-musings-on-corporate-culture-and-social-media/#comment-157 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:16:15 +0000 http://adamchristensen.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/some-more-musings-on-corporate-culture-and-social-media/#comment-157 Thanks for the thoughtful answer! My work is with nonprofits and I’m looking at social media adoption with a variety of lens:

1) Organizational adoption of social media as part of the strategy/tool set for communications plan.

2) Staff adoption for internal communication and collaboration

3)How either these uses might beg the need for greater organizational change within the organization. How does it impact management, governance, and leadership structures and processes (if at all)

What prompted my question was hearing a colleague at the Red Cross – she’s the social media strategist there – talk about resistance to the organization adopting social media as part of its communications strategy – not so much in the Enterprise 2.0 sense. But, that’s probably the next wave. It strikes me that the approach is not that different to other types of technology adoption. For example, a new database or other system is introduced.

Your case study caught my eye and blogged it here:

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/02/whats-your-social-media-elevator-pitch-for-your-nonprofits-executive-director-or-board.html

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