Room For Growth: Expanding Mind Evolution Into Company Evolution

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Comment by Lindsay Manfredi on December 20, 2008 at 9:36pm

Dawn and Erik! Thank you for the supporting words. Here's to checking your facebook at work, and here's to the top-notch companie that get it!!!!! Cheers!

Comment by Dawn Grimes on December 20, 2008 at 2:54am

Hi Lindsay, let me say i support your blogging...so i cancel out the person who didn't! ;) I have written many blogs ...in my mind and am working toward finding my voice in this arena! I very much appreciate your words and encouragment..."creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties...(Erich Fromm) and what drives business if not individuals who collaborate creatively and explore opportunity and possibilities with an open mind? Thanks for blogging! :)

Comment by Erik Deckers on December 20, 2008 at 1:32am

I've got a friend who works for a large company, and thinks the idea of using social networking or allowing employees to blog is stupid.

"I don't think the secretaries need to be checking their Facebook page," he said more than once, as if this was all social networking was.

"Do you check blogs for your work?" I asked.

"Yes, but I need to learn about some code or solution to a problem," he said.

"So that's blogging and social networking. You're using it. Why can't your company be a part of that?"

"Because the secretaries will be checking their Facebook pages all day."

Blah blah blah. Pick a new song.

Lindsay, it's the people who don't understand something who are most opposed to it. If someone truly understood blogging (or social networking or Web 2.0), they would at least realize it has its place. They would understand why they don't use it, rather than dismissing it as a fad. (They're still waiting for the Internet to end.)

The ones who call it stupid are. . . well, stupid is as stupid does. The smart ones, the open-minded ones are checking their Facebook pages. And the really smart ones, the visionaries, the ones who will succeed in an increasingly connected world, are blogging about their stupid friends.

Comment by Kyle Lacy on December 19, 2008 at 2:18pm

It is always interesting to watch the growth patterns of open minded companies vs close minded. I wouldn't be surprised if the open-minded companies flourished because they were will to try new ideas and new concepts. Great post!