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The Movie “Us Now” … Can We Govern Ourselves Collectively ?
Increasingly, performance in these new knowledge-based industries will come to depend on running the institution so as to attract, hold, and motivate knowledge workers. When this can no longer be done by satisfying knowledge workers’ greed, as we are now trying to do, it will have to be done by satisfying their values, and by giving them social recognition and social power. In several recent conversations I was reminded of the core stimulus for the concept of “ wirearchy ” … the last paragraph(s) of Peter Drucker’s 1999 Atlantic Monthly article “ Beyond The Information Revolution “, written at the height of the dot.com boom: . “And then, probably within ten years or so, running a business with (short-term) “shareholder value” as its first — if not its only — goal and justification will have become counterproductive.
Wirearchy - Sunday, May 31, 2009
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blueKiwi’s bK2009 … The Sociology of Productivity Is a Core Design Principle
We started off by covering a bit of history about blueKiwi’s roots and how the platform came into being just as the Web began to have major impact on the knowledge-based workplace.  So they and their early clients understood that people were growing into using the Web, and wanted to use that knowledge and understanding to inform the core design principles, functionality and usability of the first version of blueKiwi, which was built and implemented at one of their key clients, Dassault Systems. (cross-posted at the FASTForward blog) . In November of 2008, 
Wirearchy - Monday, March 30, 2009
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Clay Shirky On Leadership and Management in an Interconnected World
A couple of days ago, as the FASTForward 09 conference opened, I had the opportunity to sit down with Clay Shirky, author of the book “ Here Comes Everybody – the power of organizing without organizations ” and a consultant, professor and writer. As a way to get into the issues, I asked Clay to offer his perspective about how the Web and its interconnectedness is affecting knowledge-based work. I wanted to bear down a little bit on some of the core ideas in his recent book and examine how his premises impact what management needs to understand and do with
Wirearchy - Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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  • Clay Shirky On Leadership and Management in an Interconnected World
    A couple of days ago, as the FASTForward 09 conference opened, I had the opportunity to sit down with Clay Shirky, author of the book “ Here Comes Everybody – the power of organizing without organizations ” and a consultant, professor and writer. As a way to get into the issues, I asked Clay to offer his perspective about how the Web and its interconnectedness is affecting knowledge-based work. I wanted to bear down a little bit on some of the core ideas in his recent book and examine how his premises impact what management needs to understand and do with
    Wirearchy - Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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  • The Movie “Us Now” … Can We Govern Ourselves Collectively ?
    Increasingly, performance in these new knowledge-based industries will come to depend on running the institution so as to attract, hold, and motivate knowledge workers. When this can no longer be done by satisfying knowledge workers’ greed, as we are now trying to do, it will have to be done by satisfying their values, and by giving them social recognition and social power. In several recent conversations I was reminded of the core stimulus for the concept of “ wirearchy ” … the last paragraph(s) of Peter Drucker’s 1999 Atlantic Monthly article “ Beyond The Information Revolution “, written at the height of the dot.com boom: . “And then, probably within ten years or so, running a business with (short-term) “shareholder value” as its first — if not its only — goal and justification will have become counterproductive.
    Wirearchy - Sunday, May 31, 2009
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  • blueKiwi’s bK2009 … The Sociology of Productivity Is a Core Design Principle
    We started off by covering a bit of history about blueKiwi’s roots and how the platform came into being just as the Web began to have major impact on the knowledge-based workplace.  So they and their early clients understood that people were growing into using the Web, and wanted to use that knowledge and understanding to inform the core design principles, functionality and usability of the first version of blueKiwi, which was built and implemented at one of their key clients, Dassault Systems. (cross-posted at the FASTForward blog) . In November of 2008, 
    Wirearchy - Monday, March 30, 2009
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