TweetNext month I’ll be discussing corporate culture at Sibos in Toronto. My view (not original) is that corporate culture is an emergent property. It is a result of the myriad properties of the organization and its environment. Culture happens, and like a child, once born, the parents are not really in control. We used to think [...]
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TweetThe Company Men is a movie that “centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company – and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.” The movie is entertaining but I am most interested in how it showed the real [...]
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Tweet“Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy“ - Article #7 of The Cluetrain Manifesto, 1999. The Net, especially working and learning in networks, subverts many of the hierarchies we have developed over hundreds of years. Formal education is one example, as shown in this excellent article by Cathy Davidson: Grading, in a curious way, exemplifies our deepest convictions about excellence [...]
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TweetHere are some interesting finds that were shared on Twitter this past week. @EskoKilpi – “The big shift: Transformation from status hierarchies to task hierarchies - #networks” [I think this is a critical differentiation between the industrial/information economy and the creative/knowledge economy we are shifting to.] Mike Wesch ”I don’t want to help make students for the [...]
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TweetI define Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) as a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively and contribute to society. It’s sense making + getting things done. George Siemens has made this rather succinct statement about knowledge: When I externalize something, it’s information. When someone [...]
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TweetA while back, it was only those nasty dictatorships that shut down communications, but now “enlightened” democracies like the USA and the UK are doing the same. However, it’s not really about social media, as they’re just the current manifestation of the Internet. The Cluetrain made it clear in 1999, “Hyperlinks subvert Hierarchy”. We are [...]
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TweetKen Carroll calls for leaders to be the miners: You have to dig if you want to find the greatest possibilities within yourself and others. They are not – repeat, not – obvious. But even simple discoveries can be transformative. They can change individuals and organizations. Seeing your own worst habits can do it. Knowing why you act as you [...]
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TweetIn 2005, I wrote - Seth Godin’s quotable Bureaucracy = Death raises a number of issues on why preventive actions are seldom taken by bureaucratic organisations. Seth talks about the effects of bureaucracy on marketing, but it also results in inertia in healthcare, education, et al. I doubt that his idea of a Chief No Officer would be embraced by [...]
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TweetHere are some of the things that were shared via Twitter this past week. “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem.” – G. K. Chesterton – via @albybisy @umairh – “Being airlifted into a triathlon is probably a pretty bad way to check if your leg’s broken. [...]
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TweetHow do you get ideas to spread, especially in organizational communities of practice (often behind the firewall) to encourage innovation? In Connecting Ideas with Communities, I figured that if you want to foster large-scale change in an organization or even a network, then you would: Connect the right Mavens with the potential Innovators, target the Early Adopters via the Connectors, [...]
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