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John, as always, great analysis and insight. I'm optimistic that the time is right for the ideas you offer to take root on a broad scale. In conversations with people ranging from my sailing buddies to academics from technology institutes in Germany, there is agreement that work is becoming more flexible and with a greater demand for personal innovation.
People are seeing that human, technology, & institutions provide the building blocks and that we must push forward with transparency, responsibility, and growth (I'm trial ballooning my book proposal here). ...and I'm seeing entrepreneurs begin to build the tools to support these new forms of work. We have the tools and broad motivation - in the past we may have only had the motivation from the grass roots -- the time seems right.
From Race Against the Machine to Race With the Machine
The recent book, Race Against The Machine, has caught the imagination of a growing body of readers. It’s an important book, but it doesn’t go far enough in highlighting the root causes of the unemployment we are experiencing. Rather than framing it as a technological issue, the book would have g...
Can't say it's a form - but a new approach. Rypple (recently acquired by Salesforce, founded by Stanford GSBers) takes the "check-in" gesture and turns it towards performance feedback. I did an overview for GigaOM using some of Jeff Pfeffer's quotes: http://gigaom.com/collaboration/are-annual-performance-reviews-passe/
Do You Have a GOOD and SIMPLE Performance Evaluation Form?
As many of you know, I have expressed considerable skepticism about whether performance evaluations are even worth using, if they do more good than harm. And Sam Culbert has gone the next step with his book, Get Rid of the Performance Evaluation. Even though this debate will continue to go on...
Thanks for this. I didn't get to go to the Boston version and instead followed along on Twitter. This overview was a big help.
This year's Enterprise 2.0 Conference is "Right ON"
Last week I attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, and for me personally, it was marked by many firsts. It was the first time I did not keynote or hold a session. It was the first time I did not attend for the majority of the time, and, it was the first time I attended as a full-fledged memb...
I'm obligated to open with Go Bears! ..even this season...
Great set of ideas. College football has gotten away from being about college and tradition. My biggest gripe is that the Rose Bowl isn't the Rose Bowl anymore -- BCS intervention focused on $$$ as you note. Might as well go back to chariot races (yes, they did that in the early years).
Yes, let's reset the goals and then align the organizations to match.
The Irony Bowl, III: Putting the burden for change where it belongs
Following on my recent posts regarding the hypocrosies of college football (The Irony Bowl, and Irony Bowl II), a very nice article by Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post was brought to my attention today, On eve of BCS championship, a call for the NCAA to reform college football. Jenkins very...
I'm going to be sharing this with colleagues on both side of the academic/industry fence. ...actually has a Thanksgiving theme too!
The Forks in the Road
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. —Yogi Berra In the commercialization of university research, it’s important to recognize that not every research project becomes a new venture—nor should it. For every research project, there is a range of possible outcomes. This range is often lost w...
Thank you, Tracy! I've been meaning to write a letter to Wired on this very issue. Sometimes they'll give us the reference, other times it's something like "researchers at Harvard found" or "as published in [journal name] -- but no direct reference or credit to the individual authors. I take my students to task for lack of cites, both because they need to give credit and for their own knowledge management.
If they're going to talk about evidence, journalists and pundits need to show it to us.
On Boston.com, Joe Keohane writes about How facts backfire: Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains. There's some good stuff about how people resist 'facts' that contradict their beliefs. (We've seen findings like this before - it's a fact that we like to ignore the inc...
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