Posts By: Jon

That we evolve as we are involved with each other ?  For better and for worse, medicine it seems, on balance of all the evidence. Via the NY Times … read the full article here. Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force   By NICHOLAS WADE   As with any other species, human populations are shaped by the… Read more »

As I carried out my usual early-morning browsing, this caught my eye. It’s from the comments section of a blog where economist Dean Baker was invited to participate in an on-line salon discussion of his new book “False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy“.  This comment is the first one by Baker in response to… Read more »

Competency models and profiles are a cornerstone of HR methods and practices in today’s enterprise.  They play a central role in: recruiting learning / training & development performance management, and (increasingly) compensation philosophy and practices Competency analysis and profiling was developed from the work of David McLellan, a professor of psychology at Harvard University in the… Read more »

Unfortunately, it’s coming to be called the Spring Olympics .. but seriously, there’s lots of snow at Whistler. Also … the 2010 Winter Olympics will be the first in history to have an independent media centre.  The rise of social media over the last five years means that the accreditation of various people-and-purpose users of… Read more »

I enjoy Charlie Brooker.  

I rarely search for references to the ideas and concepts I have been working on, but today I decided to use Twitter search. I ran across the following two tweets. @sleslie wirearchy? really? wirearchy? I’m not anti-neologism, but that is the only time you’ll see me use the word @cosmopoetica @sleslie No kidding.Wirearchy is one of the dumber ones… Read more »

Here’s Antonio Oftelie, a Gov 2.0 expert from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Leadership for a Networked World program on the impact of networked collaborative social computing on organizational structure(s). Voices from Gov2.0 LA: Antonio Oftelie  

That’s obvious. One of the most exasperating things to me when conversing about the notion of wirearchy is that many people seem to think (almost always, in fact) that I am advocating, or predicting, that hierarchy as the core organizing principle for people’s activities will be replaced, or should be replaced, by anarchic group swarming… Read more »

Bruce Mau is a world-reknowned Canadian designer who first published the following manifesto on learning in 1998. I stumbled upon it again recently when I unearthed a decade-old copy of the FAST COMPANY magazine.  See the previous post. Social networks and social computing have arisen into prominence during this past decade. I was struck by… Read more »

I remember very my first inspiration for becoming a management consultant.  It came from reading Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s book “The Changemasters – Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation“, in 1985 shortly after it was published. I already knew I was interested in organizations as social systems from my university days, but the book excited… Read more »