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 things happen to you, some of them by mail. The most dramatic so far [...]
Tag Archive: thinking
Twenty Commandments
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 the sort of Daily Fail nonsense: Facebook gives you cancer, Twitter rots your brain, bloggers never meet real people.
But [...]
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 thinking in Here Comes Everybody. This is the intellectual equivalent of a Long Island Ice Tea made with preimum triple filtered spirits.
It’ll knock your socks off.
The outcome is [...]
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 chain, especially value chains, that are things that networks will rip apart.
Then, as [...]
“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 of networks, when you have to move beyond the cloying [...]
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 has been much on my mind in recent weeks.
Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people – especially those in power – realise. [...]
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 to reduce a business (a complex, human enterprise) to a set of numbers on a page. Even more dangerous when they trick us into thinking we can predict the future and call the [...]
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 concepts like FAST Strategy have not only resonated as theories for me in recent years but have given practical, effective models for the work we’ve been doing at iCrossing, especially in “edge” areas like social media research, [...]
Rip it up and grow some
Two posts in me feeds first thing today chime with my rant/ramble yesterday…
Mark Earls is feeling feisty about 2009 and the potential for massive postive disruptions as he makes plain in The year that everything changes:
Let’s test our ideas and practices against the simple measure: is this just the old map re-written? is it just [...]
Cry havoc: Here comes (Oh) Nine…
So, yes, I shut down for a while.
Literally and virtually. I’ve had some time going with the flow with my family, for a while doing nothing but that. Wonderful.
Then, as Christmas passed, I switched on read-only mode. I read some literature in single sittings, a rare treat that only comes in holidays (The Road and [...]
Tag Archive: thinking
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 things happen to you, some of them by mail. The most dramatic so far [...]
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 the sort of Daily Fail nonsense: Facebook gives you cancer, Twitter rots your brain, bloggers never meet real people.
But [...]
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 thinking in Here Comes Everybody. This is the intellectual equivalent of a Long Island Ice Tea made with preimum triple filtered spirits.
It’ll knock your socks off.
The outcome is [...]
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 chain, especially value chains, that are things that networks will rip apart.
Then, as [...]
“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 of networks, when you have to move beyond the cloying [...]
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 has been much on my mind in recent weeks.
Trust is more of a two-way exchange than most people – especially those in power – realise. [...]
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 to reduce a business (a complex, human enterprise) to a set of numbers on a page. Even more dangerous when they trick us into thinking we can predict the future and call the [...]
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 concepts like FAST Strategy have not only resonated as theories for me in recent years but have given practical, effective models for the work we’ve been doing at iCrossing, especially in “edge” areas like social media research, [...]
Rip it up and grow some
Two posts in me feeds first thing today chime with my rant/ramble yesterday…
Mark Earls is feeling feisty about 2009 and the potential for massive postive disruptions as he makes plain in The year that everything changes:
Let’s test our ideas and practices against the simple measure: is this just the old map re-written? is it just [...]
Cry havoc: Here comes (Oh) Nine…
So, yes, I shut down for a while.
Literally and virtually. I’ve had some time going with the flow with my family, for a while doing nothing but that. Wonderful.
Then, as Christmas passed, I switched on read-only mode. I read some literature in single sittings, a rare treat that only comes in holidays (The Road and [...]