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Posts by: Kate Carruthers
This video of Dr Deming discussing the state of management in the US from 1984 is strangely prescient. I think this is rather important!
Definitely worth watching and pondering for all of us …
Seth Godin wrote about the the attention economy. But it seems to me that we are also seeing the evolution of an online social recommendation economy.
When we all lived in villages there was a strong recommendation economy, and it was fuelled [...]
As we move away from the power structures and ways of thinking that governed the twentieth century we are seeing a desperate rearguard action from the power elites who ruled that time.
Dying Dinosaur Industries in their Death Throes
A good example of this is the film and music industries, [...]
Zooniversity is the home of one of my favourite animals online – Teddy Bear the porcupine – and he’s celebrating the New Year …
Recently I was re-reading Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, a moving letter from prison that looks at spirituality and faith from the depths of despair and degradation.
This particular quote stood out for me, especially the notion that we do not know ourselves very [...]
Each year, instead of making new year resolutions, I pick a theme for the year. That way when I get sidetracked (as often happens)
I can simply return to the theme. Also with a theme there are often many different things I can do to support it.
This year my [...]
Recently Jason Jordan called me on my limited ways of thinking.
ARE YOU SUGGESTING IT CANNOT BE BOTH? RT @kcarruthers: @jasonjordan but. but. it’s already Caturday. #cakeday
— Jason Jordan (@jasonjordan) December 23, 2011
Then I realised that he’s [...]
As we come up to the year 2012 many prognosticators are predicting the end of the world. I suspect that this will not come to pass.
But I do think that we are seeing the end of the world as we’ve come to know it during the latter years of [...]
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