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Implications of the Information Economy
Amazon, eBay, Google, Craigslist, Yahoo and others have successfully ushered in the information age. This has been universally acknowledged as a miraculous and valuable thing. It is transforming the economy in ways not seen since the industrial revolution but doing so much more rapidly. In 2008
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Tue, Jan 06 2009
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The Organizational Alignment Gap
Large companies have necessarily needed a functional structure in order to manage the vast number of people they employ. Somewhere it was decided that any one individual cannot be responsible for more than 7-10 direct reports...and consequently you get functional hierarchies. The big issue
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Tue, Dec 30 2008
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The Importance of Social Networking
Collaboration software was designed for the information worker and it has indeed, helped tremendously by giving people more ways and channels to communicate and work together on content. However, collaboration - in its more traditional definition - is too limited for what information workers nee
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Fri, Nov 21 2008
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My Twitter Election
For me, this election has been very different than previous elections. Yes, there are historic choices to be made and our country is embroiled in crisis. But I've felt in the past that those conditions were true too. What's different for me? Twitter. And for me, it has profoundly changed how
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Wed, Nov 12 2008
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The Rise of Innovation in the Hub
I've worked in technology in Silicon Valley and Boston and the environments are pretty different. In Boston you often get the inferiority vibe...I guess now that our sports teams have won their share of national titles we have to keep the inferiority complex going somewhere. From my perspective
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Mon, Oct 20 2008
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Participating In the Market
Today is Blog Action Day to fight Poverty and while I haven't done much to fight poverty lately other than donate to the Heifer Project, I do have markets and equality on my mind. Yesterday I gave a presentation titled "This Little
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Fri, Oct 17 2008
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Got Leadership?
Communities, like any organization, need strong leadership to be successful. Leadership in communities, however, needs to come from many if not most of the members of the community. Strong communities are ones where there is a lot of discussion, dissent, and negotiation. Strong communities often
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Fri, Oct 17 2008
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The Wisdom of the Crowd or Mob Rule?
I was perusing through my corner of the blogosphere today and ran across Chris Brogan's new project, Dad-o-matic. It's a cool multi-author blog covering mens' perspective on raising kids. I don't have kids but I love the concept and some of the p
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Sun, Sep 21 2008
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