Shel Israel Tells Me

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Shel Israel Tells Me

Shel Isarael writes a thought provoking essay on his blog. Go read it here:

The culture changes when employees discover they have an enlightened management who trusts its employees to do and say the right thing on their blogs. The evidence is overwhelming, that employee rarely betray that kind of faith. There’s also the MySpace factor. Kids are growing up using blogs and they aren’t going to be much interested in working somewhere that tries to suppress or control the personal brand that comes out of it.

I want to know if any global CEO beyond Microsoft, Oracle SAP, JD Edwards and related industry types would want loads of their youngbloods to responsibly blogging the day away. Of course there will be some but not in the multitudes Shel may aspire to have allow blogging at work. I think the bubble has burst with Scoble departing Microsoft. I’d like to be proved wrong but I cannot see staffer blogging reclaiming the superstar status it had under Robert.

In my opinion, business is business for one reason alone - profit. To get that profit, CEO’s invite shareholders to invest in their business models and then employ staff to help them achieve the aim of returning a dividend to the investors.

I do not think investors of non-internet related industries will see their way to accomodating blogging. Be it responsible or not. The CEOs I know don’t even know what a blog is. But they do know what a pound of flesh and a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work is. And they do demand it too.

Accomodating a staffers’ personal habits (yes blogging is habit forming) is asking too much. We cannot bend over any more than what we as employers are already doing. We need to get rid of Political Correctness first then address other stumbling blocks to efficiencies before letting the staff loose on blogging when they should be getting the 1H2006 results out.