social | Rick Mahn

Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Posted on Apr 21, 2010 in blog, challenges

Lately I’ve been thinking about being comfortable, and how it leads one into complacency, into believing that everything is fine. That the world is fine, it’s understandable and that we know our place within it. I’ve been thinking this for a number of reasons and one of them is leading me to realize how hard it is for organizations to change. As individuals, we know change is hard – we struggle every year to improve ourselves. We go so far as to ask peers to give critical feedback in the desire to find something to improve on. Something to make us better than we...

Happiness CCCXXV

Posted on Jul 13, 2009 in happiness

Sharing, have you tried it today?

Undiscovered Opportunities of the C-Suite

Posted on May 4, 2009 in blog, communication, companies, leadership, social web

Sometimes you don’t know what you have in front of you. The opportunity to change. That’s what lies before today’s C-Suite executives if they choose to explore it. What I’m talking about here, of course, is really about relationships. With the advent of social computing in the second half of this decade, the power has shifted from producers and marketers to people. The challenge, of course, is for today’s executives to leap into the deep end of the pool and embrace these new relationships. To build new loyalty into their customer base, by demonstrating the...

Social Media Something

Posted on Feb 13, 2009 in blog, social media

Iâ€™ve been wondering, has social media done anything really special for you? Has it brought in more readers? Has it increased your earnings? Has it simplified your life? Has it generated more sales leads? Has it improved your customer service rating? Has it save you more time? Those are the questions I (and others) have about social media. The intangibles indicate yes on multiple fronts. The trick is how to measure that, and itâ€™s different for everybody and every business. Of course itâ€™s worth the effort, but for you and your organization to succeed in your...