… well, “is it possible and why doesn’t it happen more often?” – that’s the topic of this podcast (mp3) with Bill Taylor, co-author of “Mavericks at Work” and writer of the “Game Changer” blog at HBS. They are discussing his post on cross-boundary disruption, asking why big, successful companies, with vast technological and financial […]
an entertaining and typically forthright argument in favor of anger and its power to drive innovation … here in a podcast of IT Conversations with Jeff Bonforte (get the mp3). […] Bonforte presents his belief that anger is the most untapped emotion when it comes to start-ups and innovation. Anger doesn’t appear on many business […]
Via Business & Technology Reinvention this outstanding case of part maverick creative thinking, part case study of an informal “we’re getting blogged, wtf … danger case” and part case study for business (re-)vitalization when facing severe organizational obstacles. A bunch of Disney and Pixar Imagineers have a blog called RE Imagineering. […] RE imagineering’s site […]
Schon etwas älter, aber interessant: SpOn berichtet über ein Experiment zu selbstorganisatorischen Phänomenen in komplexen sozialen Systemen: Jeder darf führen, wenn er etwas weiß […] Menschenmengen organisieren sich von selbst, ohne sich abzustimmen. […] Das Ganze sei keinesfalls undemokratisch: “Jeder, der Informationen hat, kann zum Führer werden”, sagt der Forscher. “Man kann im Schwarm viel […]
Via Nimmy: “Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow, whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.” Tao Te Ching
Interesting approach: Every company innovates until it finds a cash cow. At that point only innovation that supports the cash cow is promoted. Further, any innovation that threatens or does not support the cash cow languishes or is actively killed. Eventually, most of the true innovation ceases as the innovators leave and start new companies […]
Die neue BrandEins schaut auf Veränderungen und legt den Kern frei … Ob wir es Web 1.0, 5.0 oder 1.2 nennen – wir sprechen von einer Lebensader, die nicht mehr wegzudenken ist. Und auch wenn die Wirtschaft dazu neigt, Entwicklung am Profit zu messen und das Internet vorrangig als Turbo für neue Geschäftsmodelle misszuverstehen – […]
