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MARCH 6, 2019

By Linda Fisher Thornton One of my favorite concepts for understanding how social media is changing the visibility of organizational culture is Trendwatching.com's report Glass Box Brands. As Trendwatching.com elequently explains, "In an age of radical transparency, your internal culture is your brand."

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APRIL 25, 2012

The 5 reasons to engage in social media describe how social media can benefit us as leaders who are learning in complex times, but that's only one dimension of the benefit of connected communication through social media. In this post I'll explore some of the ways social media can be used for "good.".

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

The idea for this post came from a reader's comment about how new the area of social media leadership is to the leadership community (Thanks Justin!). Here are some resources that will help you lead others through engagement with social media engagement and the new ways we communicate in business today:

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

By Linda Fisher Thornton We have a "spin" problem in the media and it's out of control. Unfortunately, many media channels have decided that clicks, and the dollars they generate, are more important than journalistic integrity.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

By Linda Fisher Thornton This week the Alliance of Trustworthy Business Experts from Trust Across America-Trust Around the World is holding a social media awareness campaign called #Trustgiving2014, In support of that campaign, I am featuring 10 posts about what it means to be a trustworthy leader. I hope you enjoy them!

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Social media has become the fastest information media available, tackling emerging issues long before mainstream publications do. Our job is to make sense out of all of it in order to make work life easier for those we lead. Since the world changes fast, we have to learn fast.

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MARCH 2, 2022

It has been happening right in front of us and has been amplified by social media - leaders speaking from a perspective of selective inclusion. By Linda Fisher Thornton I previously wrote about the problem of selective respect and today I'll address it's evil twin.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Part 3 will address the importance of media literacy. By Linda Fisher Thornton This is Part 3 in a Leading in Context blog series sharing information on how to spot misinformation and false narratives. In case you missed them, Part 1 explored truth and narrative, and Part 2 examined how data and motives related to the truth.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Part 3 addressed the importance of media literacy. By Linda Fisher Thornton Part 1 in the Truth and Misinformation: How to Spot False Narratives series explored truth and narrative, and Part 2 examined how data and motives relate to the truth. In Part 4, we take a deeper look at truth and belief.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Here here are 5 More Ways to Avoid the "Rightness" Trap based on social media responses to Is Needing to Be "Right" Unethical? By Linda Fisher Thornton 5 More Ways to Avoid the "Rightness" Trap The comments kept coming! They are each illustrated here with quotes.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

As we enter 2012, these trend reports will give you a sense of where the world is going in a variety of different areas, from responsible leadership to social media, branding, consumerism, mobile apps and web design, food and color trends.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Thanks so much to all of you who retweeted, commented on and shared it on your favorite social media channels. "Business Leader Future" Post Struck a Chord With Readers The response to the February 1, 2012 post "Business Leader Future: A Sketch" has been overwhelming.

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JULY 26, 2017

By Linda Fisher Thornton We all need to know how to tell what's real news and what's not. While a headline may be compelling, we can easily damage our personal reputation and brand if we share it and it turns out to be "fake news." It's our job to "check stories out" to be sure that what we share is real.

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