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"SPE National Conference" Fairmont Hotel, Dallas, TX, 03.28.09.
Posted by Internet at Every Where on 7:30 PM
Emergence - Part 1
Posted by Internet at Every Where on 9:16 AM
key to understanding self-organizing is the concept of emergence. Here is a nice video (via Lisa Kimball) in two par...
Can we see self-organizing in our world?
Posted by Internet at Every Where on 2:49 PM
I'm really finding BFI Book Group quite delightful. First, it's a good use of Ning, a free customizable social networking site, as a discussion forum. Might want to check it out to see how it works.In addition, the quality of the discussion of The Invention of Air (by Steven B Johnson) is great. There's a new thread on Systems Thinking and Change that is fascinating. Saul Kaplan, who organized the Book Group, says...systems level innovation is exactly what it is going to take to tackle the really important issues of our time including health care, education, and climate change.But to get systems level innovation we need theory. Steven Johnson...
Whither the Coffee House?
Posted by Internet at Every Where on 7:25 AM
Saul Kaplan has set up an online book club on innovation. The first book we are reading and discussing is Steven Johnson's "The Invention of Air," which describes the coffee house culture of England and the U.S. in the late 1700's. Here are some of my thoughts about these places that were so crucial to innovation in that era.Think about the coffee house - people flowing in and out with the frequent running into others and the chance to exchange and cross-fertilize one's latest spontaneous thinking, places for twosies to sit down and move the sparks that have been created into action, and groups coalescing around trending topics so larger stuff...
