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Monday, March 8, 2010
How is web 2.0 values driven? asked one of the participants in a workshop given by Jenny Ambrozek and myself, sponsored by ODNNY. The question of values strikes at the core of our human and organizational behavior, whether it is face-to-face or online, through any of a host of social media platforms.  Our Our values underpin our behavior.
 
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
January 19 I was privileged to join fellow presenters Daniel Doucette , Robyn Stratton-Berkessel , Suzanne Mueller and Victoria Zelin at the OD Network, New York's Pecha Kucha event addressing Sustainability in Organizational Development .  Thanks to Headshift's Lee Bryant for counsel (via Twitter) on how to prepare for the Pecha Kucha challenge of 20 slides at 20 seconds each: "Relax. 15-20 secs is longer than you think.
 
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Over the years I have wrestled with a graphic to depict what depict what we do when we support an organization catalyze their good ideas into into market worthy innovations and depict when value is created. We have the over all process steps defined which we
 

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The Knowledge Innvovation Network (of the University of Warwick Business School) recently convened a diversely thought provoking workshop addressing "Knowledge and Prediction Markets". Jed Christiansen did his always stellar job explaining the operation and value of prediction markets.  I had the opportunity to broaden the discussion, talking about "Collective Intelligence at Work: Promises, Perils and Practice".
A CEO’s first question, after the decision to launch a new product product or expand to a new market in a different geography, is WHO will lead this endeavor? states the EVP EVP of HR of a global media giant.
Operating on the assumption that consumer behavior is driving corporate innovation, innovation, transformation and design faster than any internal strategies strategies it appears past time to wake-up and pay attention to the impact of social media. "The Future of the Social Web, " by by
A small and really smart group of people convened by John Maloney Maloney (at the Gleacher Executive Center in Chicago), on November 6 to explore explore the latest developments in collective intelligence and use of prediction prediction market s. The conversation flow,
Over at TheAppGap I recently wrote about Transforming Organizations: Participative Media & the Power to Convene  and made the case that in many organizations leadership resists adoption of low cost collaboration tools because it challenges traditional notions of control. December 2's Financial Times brings a story, sourced from Gary Hamel's " Future of Management" about Gore-Tex that adopted a flat, decentralized structure,  nearly 5 decades ago.

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Sunday, March 21, 2010
I really enjoyed this exerpt from the book Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood by Suzanne Braun Levine . It was this W H Auden poem “Leap Before You Look” that first caught my attention. The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep,
 
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Here is a 14" x 18" acrylic painting of silver boots. They belong to our studio model. I am putting shoes that I feel have some character against a roll of brown paper in the same way that photographers often put people against white paper.  You 0160;You can see the early stages of the painting below the final version.  This
 
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Every company wants to tell a compelling story which conveys the essence of what they're about. If it's a success their customers and employees will know where they have come from and where they are going and what makes them unique and worthwhile. And with this knowledge they become attracted to what they are offering.
 

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Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too. 
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