Dominik Tschopp

This is how comedians and entrepreneurs must work — by making countless small bets to discover what works. The real genius is in the approach. The same holds true for leaders, managers and collaborators. They must to be willing to learn from mistakes. Affordable risks should be encouraged, and small failures celebrated — these are the mark of learning organizations. Otherwise, risk aversion will lead to stagnation and decline. - Dominik Tschopp

Organizations don't need "social media" strategies. They need social strategies: strategies that turn antisocial behavior on its head to maximize meaning. The right end of social tools is to help organizations stop being antisocial. In fact, it's the key to advantage in the 2010s and beyond. - Dominik Tschopp

1. You cannot clone yourself. 2. Persistence is golden. 3. The best resource is your personal network. 4. But… don’t forget to look beyond your network. 5. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior... but it’s not always obvious. 6. Use “critical incident interviewing.” 7. Assign homework. 8. Do great work and make great stuff... so the best people find you. - Dominik Tschopp

I heard from a friend that, during a lunch with Ken Chenault, CEO of American Express, Chenault was asked the secret to a fast career progression at the company. "I make my bosses make decisions," he said. "You can't just sit around and let people think about stuff, you must make them make decisions." - Dominik Tschopp

Was Menschen wirklich ausbrennen lässt, hat nichts mit der Arbeitsbelastung zu tun, sondern mit dem Grad an Fremdbestimmtheit im Leben. - Dominik Tschopp

Session on Using social media in informal learning: Rather than give a presentation, we decided to host an informal social learning activity based around a live Twitter chat session. The idea was that those in the room who knew how to use Twitter would “buddy up” with those that did not, so that they could pass on their knowledge, and the newbies could ask any questions of them; there would be no formal “teaching” of how to use Twitter. We used Tweetchat to display the hashtag stream on the two screens so that everyone could see what was happening and this provided good opportunity for us all to chat about what we were seeing and what it meant. - Dominik Tschopp

How to manage the Twitter backchannel - Dominik Tschopp