There's a reason people are burning out, leading to what some are calling "The Great Detachment": Workers don't understand the purpose of their companies or why their jobs matter. Internal comms pros can connect those dots for them, guiding leadership to be accountable to employees for creating meaning in their work—and to normalize vulnerable conversations about mental health. - Caleb Gardner, 18 Coffees
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Like many Twitter users frustrated with Elon Musk's mismanagement of Twitter since his acquisition of the company last year, last week I joined Meta's new social network, Threads. Threads is meant to be a direct competitor to Twitter and mimics many of its features intentionally to give disaffected Twitter users like me a place to land. And land we did: Threads became one of the fastest-growing apps in history, earning 100 million new users in less than a week.
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While it’s clear that technology has had a massive impact on business around the world, how has that affected the role and responsibility of those in leadership?
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… As purpose and ESG move closer to being established-business strategies, scrutiny from all kinds of stakeholders will increase. “Market demand for a more socially-conscious economy will continue to pressure increased company ESG efforts, and programming,” said Caleb Gardner of 18 Coffees. “Yet pending regulations will cause companies to be less vocal about their efforts.”
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Author Caleb Gardner argues that while change has been constant for some time, organizations are still unprepared to address it. In his latest book, “No Point B: Rules for Leading Change in the New Hyper-Connected, Radically Conscious Economy,” Gardner lays out his vision for how organizations should approach change in the new environment. The founder of the consulting firm 18 Coffees joined the Gartner Talent Angle Podcast to share examples of organizations undergoing transformation, and he extols the virtues of effective communication, adaptive capability and revised assumptions.
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Caleb Gardner, Founder and Managing Partner of 18 Coffees, joins the Social Pros podcast to discuss social media’s influence in the world. We discuss his social media experience in both corporate and government environments, what’s changed over the last ten years, and how social platforms have responded to social issues.
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Caleb Gardner, former social media director for Organizing for Action, President Barack Obama's political advocacy group, and managing partner of strategy firm 18 Coffees joins Cheddar to discuss Pres. Trump's social media ban and what it means for the future of the platforms.
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Caleb Gardner, who in his more than a decade of experience in digital leadership, entrepreneurship, and social impact, has worked for a variety of organizations in the public and private sectors, including at prestigious professional service firms like Bain & Company and Edelman.
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“The minute we think that we have transformed in a way that is responsive to the marketplace, the marketplace actually changes,” according to Caleb Gardner, managing partner of 18 Coffees. “We have to completely overhaul how business is done at a foundational level in order to take advantage of something like digital transformation and to recognize that change.”
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“It’s an incredibly powerful weapon,” said Caleb Gardner, a volunteer from the 2012 Obama for America Campaign who went on to oversee Obama’s social media strategy during the president's second term. “It’s not just the number of followers. You’ve got his ability to get media attention. His endorsement of Joe Biden set records in the number of people who shared it. The biggest hurdle for a campaign is to break through.” …
“Every cycle, what’s possible becomes different. The world changes,” said Gardner, who now runs 18 Coffees, an innovation and change-management consulting firm in Chicago. “That’s just the nature of campaigns.”
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Adrienne Elrod, a Democratic strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, was certain the Mike Bloomberg campaign account had been hacked.
On Jan. 14, the night of a Democratic presidential debate that did not include Bloomberg, his campaign’s Twitter account sent out a number of eyebrow-raising tweets, including a picture of him photoshopped as a meatball, round and covered in sauce. Elrod reached out to the campaign to let them know of the intrusion.
"Oh my God, I don't know if you guys realize this — your account's been hacked," she recalled telling the campaign. "And they're like: 'No, no, no. It's part of our strategy.'"
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