Sad news yesterday that Stephen Fry has had enough of the trolling and vitriol that he experiences on Twitter. I've no doubt that for celebrities with large followerships, the bile must be overwhelming. Given Fry's great openness about his own mental health challenges, one can imagine that the social networks, and Twitter in particular, are … Continue reading Failing the Turing Test
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I've spent the last couple of days mostly in the wonderful Names Not Numbers event in London, a festival of eclecticism that was timely given my recent thinking about the importance of diversity of thought. The final session I was able to attend yesterday was a debate about the impact of emergent technologies, and particularly the … Continue reading Technology doesn’t shape the future
I can't draw. Well, not very well at least. There's one massive psychological block I've got to drawing, and that stems back to when my O Level art teacher, Miss Moon, told me outright just before my exams "You've got a reasonable eye, Matt. The problem is you can't draw." That kind of stuck. But, … Continue reading Sketch lines
Over the past few months I've been immersing myself in the world of collaboration and organizational sharing. Here are the books that have been helping me along the way... Danah Boyd It’s Complicated an anthropological investigation of how teenagers use social networks Peter Checkland & Sue Holwell Information, systems & information systems a primer on … Continue reading #sharingorg bibliography
I had a fascinating conversation this morning with the HR Director of a large engineering company as part of my #sharingorg research. He has been helping to foster a change in how his organisation collaborates internally and externally, necessitated by changes in the markets in which the company operates (they're big in mineral commodities, mineral commodities … Continue reading Living the values
To get to the top you need to network upwards. Focus on your superiors. Get the promotions. Climb the ladder (or shin up the greasy pole). Trouble is, as you progress your way up the pyramid, kicking and shoving your way past your peers, the number of people above you gets smaller and smaller. Your … Continue reading Networking upwards
It's that time of the year when pundits start taking their crystal balls down from the shelves and giving them a good polish as they start to wheel out their predictions for the year ahead. The more outlandish the prediction, the more coverage it gets. The more outlandish the prediction, the more chance it's total … Continue reading Polishing my crystal balls
Of all of the social networks I use regularly, I think that Twitter is probably my favourite. It's the least constrained, most chaotic. It's the place where one can interact with friends, strangers, people, "brands". It's kind of lawless. And as a result, it's not to everyone's taste. My hunch is that, for the way … Continue reading Social promiscuity
My Caribbean-based correspondent Nicole Antonio-Gadson (it's always important to have friends in hot places) drew my attention to an article from the CIPD this week that asked the question Is your talent strategy ready for the Gig Economy. As fellow free-range professionals it's a subject that we both have an interest in from personal professional and client professional perspectives … Continue reading Harnessing the Gig Economy
One of the things I find myself saying a great deal at the moment is "I don't think you mean culture, I think you mean behaviour." Like a pedantic stuck record, the phrase usually comes about when people are talking about trying to get people to behave differently in organisations, and then describe that as … Continue reading Sub-culture
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