Posts By: Jon

For the past few years there have been increasingly numerous and strident calls for fundamental make-overs of both management and leadership. One of the most recent that has high visibility (Forbes Magazine) is Steve Denning’s «Why Most Of What We Know About Management Is Just Plain, Flat, Dead Wrong“. People everywhere are clicking into the fact… Read more »

… it just doesn’t (officially) operate as one. In order to do so, the people charged with leading and managing its activities must in all likelihood must undergo some some significant unlearning and then adoption of new mental models.  At a minimum. The organization in which you work has probably involved everyone in using computers… Read more »

I was interviewed by IT journalist Beverley Head in the summer of 2007 about the early emergence of social networks and the networked knowledge workplace. This was shortly after the term Enterprise 2.0 was coined, and well before the term “Social Business”.  

Earlier this year (2007) Traci Fenton (founder of Worldblu.com) had the opportunity to talk with Jon Husband, founder of a blog on “wirearchy” a term he coined and defines as “a dynamic flow of power and authority based on trust, knowledge, credibility and a focus on results enabled by interconnected people and technology.”

  Horizontal networking often creates dissonance in the vertical enterprise The vertical structure of knowledge did not foresee the coming of horizontal networking tools now shaping today’s workplace. Today, there’s a lot of chatter about bottom-up versus top-down, the collective wisdom of the organizational crowd, and various related themes.

Here’s a thoughtful and well-laid-out Prezi that (for me) puts into perspective much of the talk about push-vs.-pull, top-down vs. bottom-up and emergence-of-complexity-and-how-shall-we-deal-with-it commentary that I regularly see streaming in front of my eyes, whether as a link, a video clip, a blog post or on- or off-line article, an 140-character detailed explanation of some… Read more »

.. and why are they   1) always highlighting the same responses and answers, and   2) why do attendees keep seeking answers and / or pointers to the same problems, over and over again ?

After three years of interesting, deep and life-inspiring collaboration with Michel Cartier, a brilliant and humble man that I respect without reservations, La Société Émergente du XXIe Siècle is in bookstores and online now in France, and is expected to be in bookstores in Québec in early December.

Work Design – From Industrial to Networked Age       (previously, Part I and the first half of Part II) Horizontal networking often creates dissonance in the vertical enterprise The vertical structure of knowledge did not foresee the coming of horizontal networking tools now shaping today’s workplace.

The book Work 2.0 – Rewriting the Contract was published several years ago by Bill Jensen (@simpletonbill) which outlined four principles for the rapidly-approaching interconnected workplace of the near future. That “near future” is now here and the impact of Jensen’s four principles are growing.  The principles are: