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Comment on Unintended consequences by Anand Rau

Anand Rau — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000

JP – Nice meeting up in San Diego this past week. I realised I might have been in St. Xavier’s at the same time as you were, though you were a couple of years senior to me. I was there in 1973 and 1974 – 5th and 6th grade – one year in “small” school and one in “big” school (not in the early 80′s as I had miscalculated when we were chatting.)
I noticed some folks making mention of Mr. Redden … if I recall correctly, Mr. Redden had 2 brothers who were also in school as students – Emile and Terence. If my memory serves me right, Emile was in my class (4th grade) and so was Terence (5th grade).

Comment on Musing gently about improvisation, permission and forgiveness by Sundar Balasubramanian

Sundar Balasubramanian — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:48:21 +0000

Looking at experiments such as those of Sugata Mitra and your reference to the grass-roots liberation from command and control, I wonder how long would it take for children to take over education into their own hands, forcing institutions to transform. Call it Knowledge Spring! It may take places such as India and China, where teachers (quality ones, obviously) are at a premium, to revolutionize teaching by “outsourcing” the mundane stuff to computers that increasingly do a better job e.g. Khan Academy or Hey Math!

When kids are forced to be creative in how they learn, they don’t need to be taught to be creative! Companies have little time to reorganize before such a generation enters the workforce!!

Comment on Thinking about the Social Enterprise and Flow by clive boulton

clive boulton — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:18:54 +0000

Cloud API services allows nimble inbound / outbound uses of IP rather than licensing of IP. I’d hazard the more granular the API – the more success. Nice to see McKinsey update its study for polyglot cloud services. Heroku et al..
https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Getting_more_from_intellectual_property_1494

Comment on Thinking about the Social Enterprise and Flow by Ken L

Ken L — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:18:25 +0000

JP… Most interesting. In my experience, the greatest source of friction between trading entities is the mindset of the senior principals who established the prevailing policies, sanction the operating models and punish the deviants.

To overcome these barriers, perhaps the most effective (and efficient?) approach is to operate at the lowest common denominator for information exchange (e.g. use social models to share very basic operational data). Then rely on viral spread and adoption to establish a massive platform of trust on which new operating models can be introduced, modified and exploited at a very rapid rate. Technology now allows us to accelerate such an approach, exhibiting characteristics of a biological ‘survival of the fittest’ ecosystem combined with hyper efficient electronic market making.

Too many organisations plan for the future by creating improved versions of what was done in the past, hopefully avoiding prior mistakes. I prefer learning from the past to inform and identify what hasn’t yet been tried… As Esther D would say “Always make new mistakes!”

Comment on Thinking about the Social Enterprise and Flow by Deepak Seth

Deepak Seth — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:20:41 +0000

What are your thoughts on personal ego as a driver of innovation? Ego of the kind manifested by Oracle’s Ellison and SAP’s Blattner and how that affects innovations underway at their respective companies.

One from yore: Gates vs. Jobs

Check out: http://deepaksethspeak.blogspot.com/2012/01/ellisons-oracle-vs-plattners-sap-battle.html

Comment on The joy of writing about things that don’t matter by JP

JP — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:09:08 +0000

@ruchi, you’re welcome. I’ll try and take a look at your blog over the next couple of days….

Comment on The joy of writing about things that don’t matter by Ruchi

Ruchi — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:07:11 +0000

JP, you know what. It is through confusion and chaos and amidst disruption , I find meaning. Whenever, I read your blog, it inspires me to write even more and share my vulnerabilities as much as experiences .. . It is through collective dialogue that i learn more actually. I like comments as much as original blog. Thank you for sharing your deep seated thoughts with us , as you said, you never know in what all ways you are inspiring people :-) JP, I would love to see your comments on my blog too, your insights would enable me to learn better.

cheers,
Ruchi

Comment on Thinking about the Social Enterprise and Flow by JP

JP — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:53:48 +0000

@Rick every now and then I want to go back to an OR mindset and resurrect the work of Stafford Beer. but for now where I’m stuck at is the crossroads between John Hagel/JSB and Geoffrey West. I want to take what they’re doing and extend it. Which means spending the time immersing myself in what they’ve found out.

Comment on Thinking about the Social Enterprise and Flow by JP

JP — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:51:39 +0000

@aditya I’m on the road for a little while now, will return to my posts in ten days or so. there’s a lot more to come on these themes. thanks for your comments

Comment on Thinking about the Social Enterprise and Flow by Leo de Sousa (@leodesousa)

Leo de Sousa (@leodesousa) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:09:26 +0000

Thanks for the link Ed … will take a look and then provide some feedback. Cheers!