Navigating the Ills of Social Media in Our Organizations
Everyone is out there selling themselves as the leader who can single-handedly defeat all problems. They’re pushing their personal brand, flooding LinkedIn with boastful content. This content that overwhelms our feeds crowding out meaningful updates from friends and rendering the services useless. People celebrate each other for being busy, for claimed successes, and for repeating inspirational quotes from people they’ve never met—quotes those people often never said. More than annoying us all, this self-aggrandizing is creating a general attitude that is pernicious and harmful to how we work....