Recently, I was engaged in a listserv conversation (remember those?) regarding the balance between standards-based enterprises and the need to engage creative talent who may bristle at standard processes. The conversation moved to the question of new processes and standards that respected the nature of complex organizations (rather than early 20th century bureaucracies), and I offered [...]
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Spent yesterday’s treadmill time watching Clay Shirky’s talk at TedTalks 2005 yesterday. I believe the implications of his talk energized me as much as the “exercise” (ok, so I just walk for 30 minutes – it’s a start). His central thesis was that the low transaction costs of communication meant that new forms of organization may be [...]
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