Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus is a fascinating and attractive idea, but unless you are a student, idle, rich or all three, there may not be a surplus of energy at all. As Ian ...
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Bureaucracies defend themselves to death.
Vested interests, protectionism, conservatism are the enemies of diversity, innovation and change. This idea has been at the heart of liberalism since John Stuart Mill wrote On Liberty. He used the example of China, a ...
Twenty Commandments
Curtis points to some TED commandments, that sounds like not only good rules for conferences, but a lot more in life besides... The guy who posted them recounts: After you’re asked to be a speaker at the TED conference, a number of ...
Always look on the brightside of the downside…
Being utterly besotted with the web, and especially the social web, as I am, I tend dislike nay-saying about its significance, and the manifold benefits this thing will bring to society, the world etc. You know ...
Al Robertson has been tinkering / remixing Andy Gibson's thinking on what makes successful social projects, called "45 Social by Social Propositions", partly inspired by Clay Shirky's ...
Communities of purpose
I like David Cushman's take on the way that the web disrupts everything it touches. My main focus has been in thinking about the shift from channels to networks in media. Reading David reminds me that it is everything that looks like a ...
“Command and control is dead”: the shape of next gen organisations is social networks
Image: John Chambers, CEO of Cisco: "command and control is dead". A lot of the questions I have had floating around my head for the past few years are beginning to be answered by innovative companies. Questions about how you manage companies, organisations, in the age ...
In trust we trust: keeping it human…
Took some time to read some more of What Would Google Do? today and was stopped in my tracks by some of Jeff Jarvis's thoughts on trust, a topic which ...
Comrade Excel and the Glorious Five Year Plan
Spreadsheets aren't strategy, as Umair Haque is fond of saying. Turns out they can actually be quite dangerous, for the temptation they bring ...
Strategy and innovation: Head for the edge
Business thinkers John Seely Brown and John Hagel are always worth listening to. Their perspectives on innovation and ...
Tag Archive: thinking
Finding scraps of surplus…
Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus is a fascinating and attractive idea, but unless you are a student, idle, rich or all three, there may not be a surplus of energy at all. As Ian ...
Bureaucracies defend themselves to death.
Vested interests, protectionism, conservatism are the enemies of diversity, innovation and change. This idea has been at the heart of liberalism since John Stuart Mill wrote On Liberty. He used the example of China, a ...
Twenty Commandments
Curtis points to some TED commandments, that sounds like not only good rules for conferences, but a lot more in life besides... The guy who posted them recounts: After you’re asked to be a speaker at the TED conference, a number of ...
Always look on the brightside of the downside…
Being utterly besotted with the web, and especially the social web, as I am, I tend dislike nay-saying about its significance, and the manifold benefits this thing will bring to society, the world etc. You know ...
Al Robertson has been tinkering / remixing Andy Gibson's thinking on what makes successful social projects, called "45 Social by Social Propositions", partly inspired by Clay Shirky's ...
Communities of purpose
I like David Cushman's take on the way that the web disrupts everything it touches. My main focus has been in thinking about the shift from channels to networks in media. Reading David reminds me that it is everything that looks like a ...
“Command and control is dead”: the shape of next gen organisations is social networks
Image: John Chambers, CEO of Cisco: "command and control is dead". A lot of the questions I have had floating around my head for the past few years are beginning to be answered by innovative companies. Questions about how you manage companies, organisations, in the age ...
In trust we trust: keeping it human…
Took some time to read some more of What Would Google Do? today and was stopped in my tracks by some of Jeff Jarvis's thoughts on trust, a topic which ...
Comrade Excel and the Glorious Five Year Plan
Spreadsheets aren't strategy, as Umair Haque is fond of saying. Turns out they can actually be quite dangerous, for the temptation they bring ...
Strategy and innovation: Head for the edge
Business thinkers John Seely Brown and John Hagel are always worth listening to. Their perspectives on innovation and ...