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Boundaries real and imagined
Seth Godin’s recent post Out of bounds got me thinking about the implicit contracts that we create almost unconsciously everyday. In Seth’s post he’s talking about companies and their marketing. He notes how upset people get when a brand or product...
MBAs, ethics, pledges and virginity
Recently I noted the phenomenon of MBA graduates signing pledges promising to behave ethically. This is an admirable sentiment, especially given the sheer number of MBA graduates (from ‘excellent’ business schools) who’ve been responsible for and/or...
Live local challenge day 1
~ well today has included a bit of win and a bit of fail for the challenge … Wins caught the train to the city & back for meetings walked between meetings (even though it was raining) had a good chat with the blokes at the takeway shop...
Perception, relationships & dialogue
~ There have been some really interesting responses from a variety of people regarding my involvement with CeBIT this year. I’m finding it quite fascinating, and have even been called a “cool kid” which, for someone who’s always been the...
Gilmore of the eponymous law
~ A few times now I’ve referred to Gilmore’s Law and wanted to share a bit more about its author. John Gilmore is one of the true mavericks of the Internet, and he is a self-described entrepreneur and civil libertarian. His ideas are further out on...
On our way to a networked society
In an earlier generation all computer networks were for business or the military. That is, they were point-to-point connections between large organizations and were vastly expensive to set up and run. But the invention of TCP/IP and the modern...
Telstra IT transformation woes
I was about to write some more about the networked society but this article by Michael Sainsbury caught my eye: Telstra trauma as tranformation costs mount. This is a sad, but all to common, tale of a large organization that desperately needs to...
From society of the book to a networked society
Neerav Bhatt did an interesting post about Encyclopedia Britannica, saying: Organisations in the information industry such as book publishers and libraries would do well to learn from Encyclopedia Britannica’s precipitous fall from grace. Formerly a...
Connection - desire and distaste
A buddy, Iggy Pintado, has just published a book called Connection Generation which talks about how connection determines our place in society and business. It’s an interesting idea and ties in nicely to my idea that the new digital divide is not...
Girl Geeks & Opinions
Just back from the first Girl Geek Dinner Sydney for 2009, kindly hosted by Google at their funky new offices down near the water in Pyrmont. Damana - the force of nature who organises these great events - had asked me to do a lightning talk at the...
Power of the personal
We are rapidly moving away from the old impersonal world of broadcast media. This has important implications for getting our messages out to people. It means that we need to discover the power of the personal. One person who really got this - or...
Thoughts on innovation & revolution
Innovation always comes unexpectedly and from the periphery. Once I see an innovation it always seems obvious - except that it was not obvious until I saw it. The iPhone is a great example of this - sure it is currently less than 5% of handsets on...
