shift and share

I read a wonderful book not too long ago entitled “The Culture Code”, which had, as its thesis, the concept that each culture has a “coded” set of primal affinities and aversions. Through group regressions, the author – Clotaire Rapaille – claimed to be able to distill the essence of a culture’s feelings for a […]

Last week I was a part of a very inspiring session with some clients in Cupertino. Inspiring because the executive sponsors of the event did what is very hard for executives to do: they trusted the group to not only have input into the answers, but to help define the problem. The timing of this […]

Excellent discussion between Don Tapscott and Google’s Eric Schmidt; part of Google’s Author series. This is a useful primer on the ideas of mass collaboration. An interesting moment, I thought, was Tapscott’s suggestion that success in the old paradigm makes it more difficult to adopt the new one…sounds a lot like our saying; “Nothing Fails […]

A new and rather surprising step forward in mass collaboration is taking place in New Zealand, where members of the public are being allowed to help craft new legislation through the use of a wiki. It will be very interesting to see the progress of the project as it evolves, especially as it is open […]

A lot continues to be said about Web 2/3/4.0, and as always, it’s fascinating to see what the various conceptions, definitions and understandings of it seem to be. From a very technical perspective, Google’s Eric Schmidt recently gave an explanation of what he believes it to be, and predictably, he looks at it from the […]

We were very fortunate to have Anthony Williams from New Paradigm, and co-author of Wikinomics, come to address the group this week. I, for one, was very excited about this. Anthony gave a presentation on the general ideas behind his book, the trends that have pushed the locus of creativity and creation away from corporate […]