by Lucy P. Marcus | Harvard Business Review Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. — E.M. Forster, Howards End (1910) I was recently selected as one of Britain's "best connected" women by Director, a business magazine. This prompted me to reflect on what it actually means to be "connected." I began to explore the meaning of connectedness, both in person, and in an ever more virtual world, and to consider whether the two forms are so different. I considered it both in my role as a board director, but also in a wider framework of building relationships and gathering, synthesizing and sharing knowledge. Connecting with people and … [Read more...]