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Review: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management–Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century

6 Star Top 10%, Best Practices in Management, Culture, Research, Economics, Information Society, Intelligence (Public), Intelligence (Wealth of Networks), Leadership, Priorities, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution
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5.0 out of 5 stars Startling clarity, common sense, and immediate relevance

September 21, 2010

Steve Denning

I received a copy of this book as a galley from the publisher, and I strongly recommend it in any form. I first met Steve Denning when he was recently retired from being program director of knowledge management at the World Bank, and had created no-cost global networks for multinational information sharing decades before the term M4IS2 came into vogue (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making). His first book, The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations (KMCI Press) remains an essential reference for any leader at any level.

This book grabbed me right away, and while it reminds me of Peter Drucker, Peter Senge, and Gifford Pinchot, with a strong leavening from all the books I have been reading in the Collective Intelligence, Evolutionary Activism, Human Scale, and Epoch B Leadership arenas, this is clearly his own unique work and I would venture to say that this is the first book that captures the essence of 21st Century leadership.
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Worth a Look: Free Online Map Design Tool

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CloverPoint has developed Mapshark, a comprehensive application for ESRI ArcGIS users to create dynamic, customizable maps on the web. Mapshark simplifies the process of designing, implementing, generating and delivering online maps. It has been formulated so that users with limited graphic and web design abilities can create informative and aesthetically pleasing online maps.

Tip of the Hat to Karl Swannie at LinkedIn.

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Reference: Global Governance 2025

Director of National Intelligence et al (IC)
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Phi Beta Iota: This is a well-intentioned document that is government-centric, and as a result, completely overlooks and fails to examine alternative futures that include Panarchy, Epoch B leadership, waves of federal nullifications and hundreds if not thousands of non-violent secessions, and of course Open Everything.Ā  This document, to be useful, should be redone to add two more scenarios, one a Hybrid scenario, the other an Open scenario.Ā  At a fundamental level, the document fails to reflect the massive revolutionary changes being made possible by the revolution in communications, computing, and public intelligence.

See Also:

Review: High Noonā€“Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them

Hacking Humanity

2008 World Brain as EarthGame

2010: Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Trilogy Updated

2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability

Worth a Look: Book Review Lists (Positive)

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Engineering4Change

01 Agriculture, 01 Poverty, 02 Infectious Disease, 03 Economy, 05 Energy, 07 Health, 12 Water, Gift Intelligence, International Aid, Peace Intelligence, Technologies
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Engineering for Change is an online environment bringing together engineers and other problem solvers with NGOs and local communities to address basic quality of life issues such as access to clean water, electricity and proper sanitation. Also see their Twitter feed

Related:
+ Engineers Without Borders
+ Architecture4Humanity
+ Open Architecture Network
+ Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability
+ D-Lab @ MIT
+ Wisdom from Paul Polak on How to Design for the Market

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Journal: Electromagnetics, Bees, & Agriculture

Commerce, Government, IO Sense-Making, Law Enforcement, Military, Mobile
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June 30, 2010Ā  Study links bee decline to cell phones

Bee populations dropped 17 percent in the UK last year, according to the British Bee Association, and nearly 30 percent in the United States says the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Parasitic mites called varroa, agricultural pesticides and the effects of climate change have all been implicated in what has been dubbed “colony collapse disorder” (CCD).

But researchers in India believe cell phones could also be to blame for some of the losses.

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Journal: Consumers Want Commerce with Causes

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SURVEY SAYS…
Consumers for a Cause

September 16, 2010 ā€“ 41% of Americans claim that they have purchased a product within the last 12 months due to the brandā€™s affiliation with a social or environmental cause and 83% of consumers say that they want more products that they use to benefit causes that they personally care about, says a new study issued this week by Cone.

The ā€œ2010 Cone Cause Evolution Study,ā€ which is surveyed yearly and started in 1993, shows that over its 17 year history , consumer appetite for brands associated with causes had more than doubled, from 20% to 41%.

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Tip of the Hat to Seena Sharp at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: “Causes” are the beginning of public intelligence.Ā  As Paul Hawkin has documented so well, the “causes” of human rights and environmental responsibility have tended to merge, and we now have websites that help individuals establish their social values and then identify compliant products and services.Ā  Missing still is a holistic approach to causes, to commerce, and to public intelligence that focuses on educating the consumer who then moves markets.