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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, [...]
The old style company, that is the company circa 1880-2000, had firm boundaries and fixed hierarchies in order to function efficiently. But with the advent of digital technology and the consumer social computing revolution there is a seismic shift in how technology is used within companies. There are also significant [...]
I came across an article in Wired Science by Jonah Lehrer titled Do Nice Guys Finish Last?. It had plenty to get me thinking.
Apparently:
“… levels of ‘agreeableness’ are negatively correlated with the earnings of men”
Then:
“There [...]
Friction is one of the more important concepts in the world. Many things are either made possible or impeded by friction.
Strike a match and the friction creates a flame. Yet that same kind of friction stops other things from flowing smoothly.
Perhaps the best description of the challenges that [...]
This week I spoke at the Recruitment Technology Evaluation Convention in Sydney. The topic was navigating the hyperconnected world from a recruitment and human resources perspective.
The key issues facing businesses now include:
Hyperconnectivity and the digital revolution New rules for engagement and recruitment Why community matters [...]
Steve Hopkins was telling me recently about an interesting law firm he’d come across in San Francisco – it’s called Robot. Where lawyer and junior partner Tim Hwang and his senior partners, Apollo Cluster and “Daria” XR-1029, work to merge legal and technical systems.
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Tonia Ries has just published an article titled Privacy Fail: Klout Has Gone Too Far, which outlines how Klout is indexing social networks and creating/measuring user profiles, even if they have never registered with Klout.
About [...]
One of the various social media influence scoring platforms – Klout – has just changed its algorithm and overnight many people’s Klout scores have dropped.
This has caused one of several reactions:
complete indifference refutation of [...]
In response to yesterday’s post someone on Twitter, @dmanww, raised the very sensible issue of the triple bottom line, or as some might call [...]
It is interesting to think about this now that we see Occupy Wall Street spreading around the world (even to Occupy Sydney).
Back in 1976 Michael Jensen and William Meckling argued that the solution to the principal-agency problem — [...]
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