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Category Archives: Networks
Sometimes, You Have To Free Your IP To Succeed
Jack Fallow recently sent me a link to a TED session by Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi, the FLOW social psychologist [psychosociologist?] at the University of Chicago who also did the amazing Meaning of Things research. (Thanks, Jack!) Which of course led me…
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Networking for Jobs
The New York Times has a business article on networking in your job hunt. It’s a pretty decent article. I’m no networking maven but I regularly get things from folks in my network. There’s nothing stunning in the article’s advice,…
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Kinston's & Algie's guide on how managers can approach decisions
For Friday, here’s “Seven Distinct Paths of Decision and Action” by Warren Kinston and Jimmy Algie from 1989. This paper describes the seven different approaches to decision-making, but note that it’s really about action. Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Change, Coaching, Computers/IT, Decision-making, GO Conference, Governance, Managing, Motivation, Networks, Ontologies, Organizations, Outsourcing, Overachievers, Quality, Resources, Reviews - Articles, Reviews - Books, Risk Management, Social Network Analysis, Strategy, THEE, Theory, Uncategorized, Underachievers, Warren Kinston, Wilfred Brown, elliott jaques, podcast, requisite organization
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The Growth Trajectory of the Underachiever
As part of the shift back to our goals here at The Manasclerk Company, I’ve been looking at what the web has to say (popularly) about “adult underachievers”. Today I found the “advocate for extremely bright children”, Stephanie S. Tolan.…
Posted in Change, Governance, Organizations, Social Network Analysis
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Redux: Making Your Workplace Like the Village
Let’s take a look at something I wrote awhile back while we wait for Al to come back on! A recent post by Michael Bates, the Tulsa-based urban planning, on the work of Jane Jacobs had me searching for an…
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Make Your Workplace the Village!
In my quest for more data about Karen Stephenson’s work, I came across an old New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell, the happy camper behind The Tipping Point. The article, “Designs for Working: Why your bosses want to turn your…
Posted in Managing, Networks, Organizations, Social Network Analysis, Theory
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