My apologies to those who’ve been waiting for Parts 9 and 10 of this series; there have been a number of things on my mind, and I wanted to freewheel along, dwelling on other subjects, while pondering on this. It’s like when you want to remember something and can’t ….. the best way out seems … Continue reading “Facebook and the Enterprise: Part 9a: Meandering around with ecosystems”
First catch your hare. So wrote Hannah Glasse, in the recipe for Jugged Hare, to be found in her 1747 book The Art of Cookery. [When I first heard the quotation, I was given the impression, mistakenly, that it was a quotation from Mrs Beeton]. In today’s globalised knowledge-worker-dominated world, most enterprises have figured out … Continue reading “Facebook and the Enterprise: Part 8: Musing about signals”
It’s rare for me to buy more than three copies of a book, and Amy Jo Kim’s seminal Community Building On The Web is one such book. It’s so good that, over the last seven years or so, I have repeatedly bought it and given it away. Which was fine when the book was actually … Continue reading “Facebook and the Enterprise: Part 7: Communities”
I’m one of those people who likes the Max de Pree definition of leadership: The first job of a leader is to articulate strategy and vision. The second and last is to say thank you. In between, a leader should be a servant and a debtor to the led. De Pree’s definition, which forms the … Continue reading “Facebook and the Enterprise: Part 6: Musing about Role-driven Induction”
I don’t know if it’s apocryphal or not, but years ago I heard a story about tulips. With advances in transportation and in technology, there were people interested in time-shifting tulip production. So they tried various methods associated with making tulips believe it was spring already, placing them in hothouses, keeping the surroundings springlike, and … Continue reading “Facebook and the Enterprise: Part 5: Knowledge Management”