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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

All you need to know about business in China

Six big trends are shaping the country’s future, as investor Jeffrey Towson and McKinsey’s Jonathan Woetzel explain in this excerpt from The One Hour China Book.



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Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Enterprise knowledge sharing requires trusted relationships

As the economy gets more networked, open organizations are becoming a necessity. Businesses are increasingly dependent on complex social interactions. Products are becoming services, as we can see with web apps, software, and even books. Trading intangible goods and services today requires trusted relationships, and often across distances. Internally, work teams that need to share... Read more »



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Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Blue Oceans vs Red Oceans

Blue Ocean Strategy is a ten-year-old book that is still relevant today. How do you craft a business strategy that moves you to a new mode of operation - away from the competition and setting your own destiny? I also see a lot of Viable Vision in this book.



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Connected for a purpose

A few months ago, I rented a Toyota Prius and was driving it up the 101 when, predictably, I ran into a long stretch of mostly-stop-with-some-go traffic. I remember thinking at the time, “It’s too bad this thing didn’t see …



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Monday, March 31, 2014

4 Cs for better Communities of Practice

4 Cs for better Communities of Practice Most organisations are interested in innovation, making better […]



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Your Voice Is Your Key to Success

How to hone your vocal delivery to mesmerize your audience with confidence, style and passion.



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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Fourteen Interview Questions to Help You Hire Your Next Innovator

Find out before it's too late if you're recruiting a trailblazer or an imposter.



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Friday, March 14, 2014

What is your PKM routine?

The most important aspect of PKM is that it is personal. In order to stick with a routine over time, people have to find what works for them. Blogging has been a core part of my sense-making routine over the … Continue reading



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Lean Urbanism

Through an interesting confluence, I recently came across three different instances of the same question: what is the “minimum viable product” for urban renewal? Last Monday, I visited the O’Reilly Media office in the old Pfizer building in Brooklyn, and …



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Thursday, May 23, 2013

KM Lessons from Nature

The interesting thing here is the potential for using micro communities of practice in various offices/ Something that I've been toying with, so this is a good article to provide a useful framework. I find Davids work interesting accessible and thought provoking and is in my top 5 of people to watch.

Friday, October 28, 2011

The messiness of freedom

The messiness of freedom:

The future we face at the dawn of the twenty-first century is, like all futures left to themselves, “emergent, complex messiness.” Its “messiness” lies not in disorder, but in an order that is unpredictable, spontaneous, and ever shifting, a pattern created by millions of uncoordinated, independent decisions.

Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies.

As it is in politics so it is for organisations of the future in the demise of the command and control economy.(hat tip to the Adam Smith institute for posting this gem)