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Posted in October 23rd, 2008
by Stephen in Collective Intelligence, Knowledge Management
“Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.” Peter Senge
With the rapid rate at which our society is changing and the ‘information expl... Read Full Story
Posted in October 21st, 2008
by Stephen in Collaboration, Leadership
Peter Block has just recently released a new book: ‘Community- The Structure of Belonging‘. Social capital isn’t the sexiest topic on the planet but the events of the last few weeks (i.e. the so called ‘global crisis’) have brought a number of things into better focus. One of them is the level of connection in society. How much we trust each other and the question of whether or not... Read Full Story
Posted in October 20th, 2008
by Stephen in Collaborative Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Knowledge Management, group IQ
Communities of Practice: are defined as : ‘the process of social learning that occurs and shared sociocultural practices that emerge and evolve when people who have common goals interact as they strive towards those goals’. (Wikipedia)
There does not seem be in any doubt - our economy and that of the entire globe is going through pretty str... Read Full Story
‘A passionate amateur almost always beats a bored professional ‘- from a post at Chris Anderson’s blog. Anderson is the author of The Longer Tail - ground-breaking second edition to The Long Tail. What a great concept and you immediately realize that he has a point. In his post he goes on to say …
“In the endless debate about the relative merits of amateurs vs. professionals in a world the two have equal access to the tools of production, I think people miss a ... Read Full Story
People have been talking about ‘flattened organizations’ for decades. There are a whole rack of examples listed in books like ‘The Living Company’ (De Geus), ‘The Future of Work’ ( Malone), and ‘GUTS’ (Freibergs).
Despite that, a great many companies and team are still struggling with finding ways of flattening themselves out. That is to be expected. Evolution involves tentative steps and experiments with new forms. Making progress, even with th... Read Full Story
We live in two worlds – the world we have lived in and the new emerging world. Adapting to the differences between these worlds enables us to accommodate to the rapid level of change that is occurring in business. It will also allow us to play an active part in that change. Emerging, is an increasingly interdependent and collaborative world.read more | digg story Read Full Story
We live in two worlds – the world we have lived in and the new emerging world. Adapting to the differences between these worlds enables us to accommodate to the rapid level of change that is occurring in business. It will also allow us to play an active part in that change. Emerging, is an increasingly interdependent and collaborative world. In fact collaboration plays a central role in the management of change.
Greater levels of collaboration require Collaborative Leadership. The alterna... Read Full Story
Tripped over this in ‘After God’ by Professor Mark C. Taylor. In terms of collaborative intelligence the value of this small piece is self-evident.
The most pressing dangers we currently face result from the conflict of competing absolutisms that divide the world between oppositions that can never be mediated.
Four governing principles should thus guide us in the emerging network culture:
1) Embrace Complexity: increasing complexity tends to enrich life but can be overwhelming;... Read Full Story
