23 days ago
Linkorama : Dealing with process and practice around collaboration - The thing that caught me about this idea of Tension is often between those looking for formal process vs. those that want it loose and human. I think this is the same as the issue I brought up: technology implemented without acknowledging the human behav
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Linkorama : Most companies who try to do Enterprise 2.0 will fail - And it will be for these reasons in no particular order:
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Linkorama : The importance of pigheadedness - But we also need to recognise that the biggest speed bump in social software projects is invariably going to be the social, not the software. The technology is improving every month, mainly because it's being developed by small, nimble vendors who use the
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6 month ago
Linkorama : 13 Things to Avoid When Changing Habits - “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” - Mark Twain
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Professor Lee - In order for a Socialtext implementation to be successful, the company will require people to use it (opportunity: change management) and the processes to support its use (opportunity: re-engineered, streamlined business processes).
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Socrates and the Children's Party - One of the most successful metaphors for complexity I have ever created was the Childrens' Party story, which has developed with variations (such as the Appreciative Inquiry ending) over the years. Some time ago Christopher Bellavita wrote up a variation
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10 month ago
adamrg : Oh BlackBerry! FCC Carolers Poke Fun at Issues - January 2009 doesn't seem so far away anymore.
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11 month ago
adamrg : How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci
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13 month ago
philgyford : Business lessons from the donut and coffee guy (kottke.org) - A post from 2003 about a guy on a stand who lets customers make their own change.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I - Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I: James lays out the rationale behind some of the changes at HOTorNOT
Linkorama : Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I - Go read all three parts
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17 month ago
Linkorama : The Power of Power Laws - Gaussian distributions tend to prevail when events are completely independent of each other. As soon as you introduce the assumption of interdependence across events, Paretian distributions tend to surface because positive feedback loops tend to amplify
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19 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : SF Chronicle in Trouble? - SF Chronicle in Trouble?: name a newspaper that isn't...
Linkorama : SF Chronicle in Trouble? - "The most authoritative newsletter covering the newspaper industry issued a gloomy prognosis for the business today and then, tellingly, went out of business.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Corporate Resistance to Enterprise Web 2.0 - Company executives must be willing to accept a new network architecture paradigm along with its frequent association with "social networking" functionality that many people are still not comfortable with.
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30 month ago
Linkorama : Bureacracy Termites: Blogs, Wiki's, and Information Markets - Yet, it strikes me that there are at least three inoculations executives can administer to their organizations to make them more immune to bad bureaucratic processes and, perhaps, unleash the value of self organization.
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30 month ago
Linkorama : Managing Complexity - Companies have to change their cultures to move from "knowledge is power" to "sharing is power." One advantage of the acceleration of culture and technology is that knowledge becomes outdated sooner, reducing the "holding power" of individuals.
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30 month ago
Linkorama : Among the audience - “What an ignoramus!†says Jerry Michalski, with some exasperation.. “Look around and there's tons of great stuff from rank amateurs,†he says. “Diller is assuming that there's a finite amount of talent and that he can corner
Jeremy Zawodny : Among the audience - Among the audience: a "new media" survey story published in the Economist, in which several Yahoos are quoted
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31 month ago
kellan : It *never* snows at Murray Creek (the family property) - Wow, the snow brought down one of the old oaks, and took the upper house with it. #
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34 month ago
erikbenson : Lewin's force diagram - Most things are in balance, that point where the driving forces are a match for the restraining forces. Changing things is as much about helping the forces that are with you as weakening the forces that are against you.
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Cellphones as Change Agents - "A bunch of people on Flight 93 were scared out of their minds," said Stewart Brand at a recent FORTUNE dinner in San Francisco. "so they formed a spontaneous network and figured out what was going on using their cellphones. Then they did something about
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40 month ago
Linkorama : Review of Declining Innovation - Review: A Possible Declining Trend for Worldwide Innovation, Heubner, 2005
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