TweetI had the pleasure of writing an article for the book, Enabling Innovation: Innovative Capability – German and International Views as a follow-up to some work I did with the EU’s International Monitoring Organisation. An interesting aspect of this book is that major articles are written by German researchers and then shorter comments or additions [...]
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Tweet The main premise of The Hyper-social Organization is that social media, connectivity and always-on technology are enabling what humans do naturally; be very social. The authors on knowledge management: Of course, one of the big challenges for companies is that, unlike information or data, knowledge does not flow easily, as it relies on long-term [...]
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TweetThe premise that innovation prospers when ideas can serendipitously connect and recombine with other ideas, when hunches can stumble across other hunches that successfully fill in their blanks, may seem like an obvious truth, but the strange fact is that a great deal of the past two centuries of legal and folk wisdom about innovation [...]
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TweetThe future should be networked, writes Jeremy Rifkin in The Third Industrial Revolution. He sees the next industrial age, one bridging industrialism to continental collaboration as the most feasible post-carbon future. This era of networked energy will be based on 5 pillars, all essential for a successful transition: shift to renewable energy shift buildings to [...]
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TweetA book that influenced many of my opinions on education is Kieran Egan’s, The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape our Understanding. Egan says that Western education is based on three incompatible ideas: Education as Socialization (age cohorts, class groupings, team sports) Education as learning about Truth & Reality, based on Plato (varied subjects, academic [...]
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TweetThe notion that work is changing and that free agent knowledge workers will dominate the new economy was something I discussed in my Master’s thesis, published in 1998. I’ve been talking about free agents as the future of work on this blog almost since I started it. I wrote that free agents are the future [...]
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TweetSummer seems to be for reading and I just finished Gladwell’s Outliers: the story of success, in two days. Like his other books, it’s an easy read with lots of anecdotes. At the end, I thought to myself, what I can take away from this, other than some interesting stories? The culture of our community [...]
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TweetThe adaptive organisation is the second-last chapter of Adapt: Why success always starts with failure, followed by Adapting and you. In the final chapters, Tim Hartford examines how groups and individuals can strive to adapt, and here are some highlights. “So let’s first acknowledge a crucial difference: individuals, unlike populations, can succeed without adapting.” This [...]
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TweetI’ve just started reading Tim Hartford’s book, Adapt: Why success always starts with failure. Here are my highlights/notes from Chapter One, Adapting: Planning vs Adapting: “Ormerod’s discovery strongly implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy.” “The Soviet failure revealed itself much more gradually: it was a pathological inability to experiment.” Design Principles: [...]
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TweetOur NetWorkShop on Saturday was a great success and I think everyone left with a better understanding of networks, as well as some ideas for future pursuit. One main message that came through early in the workshop is that you cannot manage a network. That’s probably the biggest barrier to Net Work in most organizations. [...]
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