Heath Row at the Fast Company blog points to this article on good vs. bad gossip in organizations. Basically it says that bad gossip is bad for the organization, but when people say nice things about each other, that’s good for the organization. That might bit of a bit simplistic synopsis, but I feel like these researchers have missed a big opportunity. When I am working with organizations who complain that they have communication problems, I always ask about gossip. I ask how long it takes for a juicy rumour to propagate through the organization. People usually respond with some …
My fellow Bowen Islander John Dumbrille is getting his new blog into second gear: “Tom Peters’ and other’s vision of globalization, a vision which is coming true at a breakneck pace, will only be a fascinating, and rich future for those who are free enough to change. I don’t believe that it is inevitable that the income gap will continue to grow, and that the extremely poor will grow in numbers, covering the world more evenly. But to escape this we have to change – I do not think that books are enough or 3 hours of homework in grade …
From time to time as I travel around the country working on First Nations issues, I sometimes hear from non-Aboriginal people how First Nations were immigrants too, as if this somehow undermines the notion of Aboriginal title. While no one population group ever seems to stay put for very long, First Nations have had a very long history of occupation of the coast. Here in the Vancouver area settlements dating back 9000 have been discovered in a number of places along the Fraser River and in parts of Burrard inlet. These settlements would have been established not long after the …
Starting a list of weekly linkage to interesting places I have seen but not dwelled much in this week: Carnegie Mellon’s Journal of Social Structure publishaed a paper called Visualizing Social Networks. Amazing, with lots of visuals. Via Abstract Dynamics A collection of atmospheric items of interest at Apothacary’s Drawer Co-creating value with customers at Beyond Branding January edition of Top Canadian Blogs from BlogsCanada New Google features from Google Weblog via boing boing Addictive fish feeding game Jim Moore on Why Blogs Matter In Praise of Individuation by Sen McGlinn: What I am beginning to question is a view …
I’ve been looking at flow states and transformative moments lately especially with relation to how these states lead to various forms of freedom. Today I find on Bernie DeKoven’s DeepFUN some words about what he calls “Coliberation.” It’s long but worh quoting in full: CoLiberation: what happens when we work extraordinarily well together. Like on a basketball team or in an orchestra, when we actually experience ourselves sharing in something bigger than any one present. This is what I call the experience of the Big WE. It’s a corollary to the Big ME experience of self-transcendence. If the Big ME …