This presentation on slideshare from , [muito bem feito] looks at what is so special about social media. Interesting to see how we and our social media participation are seen from other cultures’ view point. In fact they point out that companies still “don’t get it” and need to understand that social media is there for:
1. PR
2. Customer Service
3. Loyalty Building
4. Collaboration
5. Networking
6. Thought Leadership
C7. lient Acquisition
View more .
For companies or professional groups who have not woken up to the fact that social media – in some shape or form – are here to stay, this is a great presentation showing how to look at social media and its effects on business.
I read an interesting, short article that Peter Isackson wrote for the Intercultural Insights Group, he brought up the simple yet profound leadership principles that Jack Welsh developed in his time as CEO at GE. Are they as relevant today as they were when he wrote them?
*1.* There is only one way ˆ the straight way. It sets the tone of the
organization.
*2.* Be open to the best of what everyone, everywhere, has to offer;
transfer learning across your organization.
*3.* Get the right people in the right jobs ˆ it is more important than
developing a strategy.
*4.* An informal atmosphere is a competitive advantage.
*5.* Make sure everybody counts and everybody knows they count.
*6.* Legitimate self-confidence is a winner ˆ the true test of
self-confidence is the courage to be open.
*7.* Business has to be fun ˆ celebrations energise an organisation.
*8.* Never underestimate the other guy.
*9.* Understand where real value is added and put your best people there.
*10.* Know when to meddle and when to let go ˆ this is pure instinct.
I think that #4 is a point that would be debatable in Europe and Asia – what do you think, is the business trend toward informality or do these societies still want the hierarchic distance?
And, the notion of having fun [#7] when working as a prerequisite to working creatively and energetically still has not penetrated the minds of the many of the older kinds of organizations, but I think that without fun, why would people want to do their best work for a company?
When I present to foreign companies, and I mention that in the US, having fun is often a goal, I frequently get dismissive looks and comments that this is not something serious and as such isn’t important. Too bad, for as long as the notion of fun is still considered frivolous, it won’t happen.
Succeeding in Silicon Valley: Foreign-born entrepreneurs share their stories about making it!Eric Benhamou, the former CEO of 3Com, Andy Bechtolsheim, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems, Wu Fu Chen, serial entrepreneur and founder of Cascade Communications, Raj Singh, whose Fiberlande Communications was later sold to Cisco and Redback for $12B in 1999, Jean-Louis Gassee, former President of the Apple Products Division and now at Allegis Partners, Arno Penzias, Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Guy Gecht, CEO, Electronics for Imaging, Dina Bitton, an internationally acclaimed scientist in the field of high-performance database systems, Philippe Courtot, serial entrepreneur who sold Signio to VeriSign for over a billion dollars in 2000, Kamran Elahian, Co-Founder and Chairman of NeoMagic, a multimedia semiconductor company which launched a $300 million IPO in its fourth year, and more were all interviewed in They Made It!. In the book, they reveal their recipes for success and talk about their career and life choices.
Once more applications for the H1-B lottery are going out next Tuesday and last year, the quota was filled on the first day. Congress gives out only 65,000 visas every year; foreign professionals can stay up to 6 years. (1)
If you think that there are lots of Americans who can and should fill the jobs these foreign professionals will fill, guess again. Especially in the last years, our high school Math curriculum has not kept up with the higher educational standards that are developing overseas [and continue to develop in major Indian or Eastern European universities for example] and we need the Indians, Albanians, Russians and Bulgarians who just have better Math programs in their schools right now in oder to help keep our high tech companies running.
• Over the past 15 years, immigrants have started 25 percent of U.S. public companies that were venture-backed, a high percentage of the most innovative companies in America.
• The current market capitalization of publicly traded immigrant-founded venture-backed companies in the United States exceeds $500 billion.
• 40 percent of U.S. publicly traded venture-backed companies operating in high-technology manufacturing today were started by immigrants.
It is evident that we need these highly trained and educated foreign workers to continue with their positive contributions to Silicon Valley and the greater US.
I hope Congress will wake up before foreign students and professionals all head to England and Canada [which many are doing now] because these countries are making it very attractive for them to come live, study and work. Without going through the long, tiresome visa process that the US has in place.
Footnote: Note that New York had a much higher number of H1-B visas granted – 21% versus 18.2% than California.
