On the recent anniversary of the Gettysburg address by Abraham Lincoln I serendipitously was re-introduced to an ancient text by the Greek leader Pericles which has uncanny similarity to Lincoln’s famous speech in a similar context. Both wrote of their current struggles and the glory that was the nations they fought to preserve. “We throw open our city […]
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There is a rush to social everything today. Organizations who rush to connect their workforce often painfully find out their big efforts fail. I must say, that the idea of a completely connected workforce sharing and collaborating with knowledge flowing freely through Wirearchies is very enticing and frankly the right goal to strive for. I want
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The 1993 movie Jurassic Park was an amazing film. However it was not the CGI that captured my imagination or even the exciting story line. It was always the man vs. nature / man’s efforts to control nature plot line. The most impactful scene for me was when the main character, Dr. Ian Malcolm, discovers
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One of the biggest barriers to bringing collaborative technology into the workplace is organizational culture. Not all resistant organizational cultures are due to extreme command & control issues, resistance to anything perceived to be “time wasting” or a security risk. In fact I’d bet most barriers are not rock solid and are actually more like
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Social Learning happens constantly in organizations, but the moment you recognize and work to formalize it by adopting social media, the skeptics appear. Many organizations view learning as happening by and through training only. i.e. if we’re not training, they’re not learning… Therefore when you present ideas that drive learning without training, bottom up solutions
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