Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Reference: 21st Century Leadership-12 Guidelines

Blog Wisdom, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corporations, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Methods & Process

The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500

1 Gary Hamel

….in the future, any company that lacks a vital core of Gen F employees will soon find itself stuck in the mud.

With that in mind, I compiled a list of 12 work-relevant characteristics of online life. These are the post-bureaucratic realities that tomorrow’s employees will use as yardsticks in determining whether your company is “with it” or “past it.” In assembling this short list, I haven’t tried to catalog every salient feature of the Web’s social milieu, only those that are most at odds with the legacy practices found in large companies.

1. All ideas compete on an equal footing.
2. Contribution counts for more than credentials.
3. Hierarchies are natural, not prescribed.
4. Leaders serve rather than preside.
5. Tasks are chosen, not assigned.
6. Groups are self-defining and self-organizing
7. Resources get attracted, not allocated.
8. Power comes from sharing information, not hoarding it.
9. Opinions compound and decisions are peer-reviewed.
10. Users can veto most policy decisions.
11. Intrinsic rewards matter most.
12. Hackers are heroes.

Read full post in glorious detail.

Tip of the Hat to Steve Denning at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: We've been skirting all of these since 1988, and even more so since we opened Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) in 1994.  Please do read the full articulation, and pass it on.  It's is the single best summary we have found to date.

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Graphic: Digital Learners versus Analog Teachers

Graphic: Principles of War versus Principles of Peace

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Reference: Blogs and Bullets–No Brains for Now

Cultural Intelligence, Mobile, Technologies, Tools
Full Source Online

Tip of the Hat to  Pierre Levy at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: This excellent but truncated report has the same problem we saw in Global Governance 2025–it just does not “get” the dual facts that a) governments no longer rule and b) connecting is not the main event–sense-making is the main event and it is 5-10 years off.  THAT will be the revolution.  Better–and earlier–insights remain those in 2002 Pinkham (US) Citizen Advocacy in the Information Age and Reference: Social Search 101.   The future was defined in 1989, then again in 1992, 1998, and on and on.  Connecting all humans with all information in all languages all the time is the end-game.  Anything less lacks integrity.

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Journal: To Risk or Not to Risk, that Is the Question

Cultural Intelligence

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The problem with putting it all on the line…

is that it might not work out.

The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better.

Not much of a choice, I think. No risk, no art. No art, no reward.

Phi Beta Iota: The Weberian concept of bureaucracy is all about risk reduction and knowledge hoarding.  Governments are not only bureaucracies, they are bureaucracies created in the wrong way for the wrong reasons.  Public philosophy is now entering a new era, a renaissance.  Eventually we anticipate overlapping governments that will be open, hybrid, strictly in the public interest with corruption impossible due to total transparency, AND governments will be intelligence-driven, about design, about the “art” of creating a prosperous world at peace that optimizes human creativity.

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Worth a Look: SectorPublic, Other IT Blogs

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Right now, three entities contributing to the public good – citizens, the public sector, and private businesses – are incredibly dependent on each other. Citizens need support from government and the broader public sector, and jobs from businesses.  The public sector needs the support of the private sector through products and services, and needs input, ideas, and other contributions from its citizens.  And private sector organizations increasingly seek to stand for something more than merely selling products – they seek to help the public sector and contribute to citizens’ well-being.

SECTOR: PUBLIC lives where these three entities meet.  If necessity is the mother of invention, there has been no period in our lifetimes during which technological innovation is able to have such a great impact on civic progress.  Every day at SECTOR: PUBLIC, we will discuss cutting-edge technology, share public sector stories, and provide thought leadership about how American progress and public good are being both disrupted and benefited by the rapid innovation era we are living through.

NOTEWORTHY:  What is the Vision for Open Government Entrepreneurship? by Mark Drapeau

Tip of the Hat to Bob Gourley at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: The intellectual philosophy on display here is HYBRID.    Below are the other websites identified by Sector Public as being valuable.

Blogs We Grok

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Worth a Look: “Liberation Technology”

Worth A Look

Program on Liberation Technology (Stanford University, California)

Liberation Technology Newsletter (Winter 2010, Stanford University, California)

Liberation Technology International Research (Stanford University, California)

Seminar on Technology for Developing Regions (Stanford University, California)

Designing Liberation Technologies (Stanford University, California)

Technology of Liberation?  Activists Get Their Own Smartphone (Huffington Post)

Liberation Technology and Digital Activism (Meta-Activism Project)

Is Social Media a disease or a liberation technology? (ISISASTER 2.0)

Liberation Overreach in Iran (Democracy Digest)

Liberation Technology?  Forget About It (Blog Posting)

Liberation Technology (Under Construction)

Technology Liberation Front

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Worth a Look: IBM’s People for a Smarter Planet

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People for a Smarter Planet offers a dynamic and intelligent network of activities, conversations and discussions you can participate in to help build a sustainable and smarter world. Or, if you just want to hang around and listen, that's okay too.

Phi Beta Iota: Now imagine if they had a Strategic Analytic Model and could offer up a zip-code based web platform for enabling transparency and connecting the dots across the ten threats and twelve policies, one dollar at a time.  Or a World Brain & Global Game…

See Also:

Huffington Post Smarter Ideas… (Sponsored by IBM)

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Journal: Chinese Super-Computing…

02 China, Research resources, Technologies

China's ‘big hole' marks scale of supercomputing race

1,000 U.S. scientists are involved in exascale development, but China and Europe have stepped up their investment, IBM warns

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Computerworld – WASHINGTON — To make a point about China's interest in supercomputing, David Turek, IBM's vice president of deep computing, displayed a slide with a picture depicting a large construction site for a building that will house a massive computer.

Speaking at an IEEE-USA forum here on Thursday, Turek pointed to a photo (below) of a supercomputing center being built in Shenzhen, China, and said, “That's a truck — that's a big truck, that's a big hole, and that's going to be a big building. And that's only the first building they are going to build there.”

Phi Beta Iota: Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institute got it right years ago–the ONLY revolutionary technology at the time, and still today, is C4I but better called C2I today because command & control is dead: communication, computing, and intelligence (decision-support, not secrets).  Energy revolutions are coming along, including paintable solar energy molecules, but C2I is where it's at for now.  CISCO continues to refuse to create cradle to cradle routers that also deliver Application Oriented Network (AON) ownership and rule making to the point of creation, so this is one big need we have; the other is a complete open source software suite of tools that delivers the eighteen functionalities defined by CATALYST et al in 1985-1989.  Finally, but actually first, we want free reliable simple cell phones for the five billion poor.  THAT is the super-computer of now and ever.

Tip of the Hat to Lynn Wheeler at LinkedIn.

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