September 2010
24 posts
Gary Hamel: Capitalism is Dead. Long Live...
There is an urgency for companies to look in the mirror and then……. change their behaviors!http://blogs.wsj.com/management/2010/09/21/capitalism-is-dead-long-live-capitalism/ Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
System of Systems | A Smarter Planet
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[SERVICE INNOVATION] AMAZON + AMEX: AN UPDATE ON...
Here follows an overview of what happened since my article from last week.American ExpressImmediately the person who is responsible for social media reacted via Twitter. She put me in contact with their @askamex people to help me further.She was very helpful and did find out that there was indeed a software problem (Safari and Chrome access didn’t work). That is what I told the Amazon people in...
Brand Is Culture, Culture Is Brand
Two weeks ago, I spoke to a conference of marketing executives organized by the American Bankers Association. The talk among these bank marketers — a young, energetic, change-minded bunch — ranged from the needs and interests of Generation Y to the power of social media to the design of new products for new times. My message to the group was much simpler than all that, almost a...
New Work Centers and HTSP
A few days ago I gave a keynote address to the International Society for Ecological Economics which was held in Bremen, Germany. First time teleconferencing for a keynote, which was a nice, minimal carbon way to get the message out. Afterwards, people in the audience asked for some more detail on high-tech self-providing. Here’s my answer to them, which is also available online here. I...
The Medici Effect: breaking down barriers between...
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Creating value in the age of distributed...
Despite the drama and significance of historic transitions in capitalism,they do not announce themselves. The pattern of change is one of overlappingand interwoven fields of transition rather than clean, unidirectionalbreaks. For those of us living through these transitions, they can beconfusing and frustrating; resources invested in innovation serve onlyto fix what was, bringing us no closer to...
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Empowering Your Employees
You need to boost the number of people who feel empowered and act resourceful if youwant to have HEROes and make them effective. This requires a change in management attitudes.
http://changethis.com/manifesto/74.05.Empowered/pdf/74.05.Empowered.pdf
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[SERVICE INNOVATION] AMAZON’S Backlog in Building...
Last week I did read an article in TechCrunch that Amazon now accepts American Express membership rewards points for purchases on Amazon.com. Well this is good news, I thought, as I have quite some points to use. So, I logged into the specific page on Amazon to link both accounts. I just had to fill in a few details regarding my American Express account and then hit the last button ‘Link rewards...
Seth Godin: Happiness’ Best Friend is Kindness —...
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Be a Better Person, Simply by Rolling the Dice
Introducing the toy that could single-handedly end Deepak Chopra’s career. (Please?) The galactically lucrative world of self-help has always had one major weakness: It requires that you read self-help books. For a more enjoyable (and less time-consuming) path to enlightenment look to the Dutch designers Creative Heroes, who’ve turned self-actualization into a dice game. ...
Do what you love
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Nussbaum: What Fashion Can Teach You About...
Nokia, P&G, Lenovo, Ford, Tata, Boeing take note—Fashion can show you the way.
Before joining the faculty at Parsons, I subscribed to the standard prejudice against fashion held by many intellectuals: Fashion was all about consumerism and rich people. No longer.
One serious look at New York’s Fashion Week highlights how Fashion has morphed into a very sharp leading edge of...
The mirror is YOU
The House of 1000 Mirrors By: Author Unknown Long ago in a small, far away village, there was place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great...
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM OUTLIERS AND ICONOCLASTS
In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell argues that there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success.
It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement.
The emerging picture from studies is that then thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery...
What is meaningful work?
Work that fulfills these three citeria is meaningful:- autonomy- complexity- a connection between effort and reward Source: Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
Dilbert: New Social Media Manager's First Day
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Future of Work
by Saul Kaplan
It seems fitting during Labor Day week to reflect on the future of work. Today’s concept of work, employment, and jobs are an outgrowth of an industrial era that is long gone. The industrial era is not coming back and it is time to rethink the basic concept of work. Despite what politicians say most of the jobs lost in the current downturn aren’t coming back. Work takes on...
Five Ways to Wellbeing
A holistic approach to improving one’s well-being is important.The 5 ways to wellbeing are: - Connect- Be Active- Take Notice- Keep Learning- GiveSee for more details the report from NEF. Download now or preview on posterous Five_Ways_to_Well-being_Evidence_1.pdf (250 KB) Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
New study weighs in on organic vs. conventional...
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Reconnecting work with the art of living | the new...
Reducing the working week would not just tackle inequality, it would give us the time to think about what we do with our lives. In his Guardian column this week, Aditya Chakrabortty wrote how workers are becoming slaves to routine, with only a lucky few still possessing any real autonomy. It’s time that we changed the way we work.
Writing on the scourge of “insane...
FOUR YEARS. GO.
via fouryearsgo.org A promising campaign……… and very necessary! Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
The Great Transition
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Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index
via ted.com What makes life worthwhile. Very inspiring thoughts and evidence! Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
