A week in Tweets: 11-17 Apr 2010
Still doing catch-up, but here it is – another week’s-worth of tweets and links, in the usual categories, with a couple of extras, all after the usual ‘Read more…’ link:
Tag: responsibility
A week in Tweets: 4-10 April 2010
Urgently need to do a catch-up on the ‘week in tweets’ series: I’m running almost four weeks behind, which is not good – many apologies. Usual categories and a couple of extra items, anyway, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link:
A week in Tweets: 28 Mar – 4 Apr 2010
Another week gone by, running late again, but we do have the usual collection os Tweets and links. More after the ‘Read more…’ link:
Economics as enterprise-architecture
Several people asked me to cross-post to other ‘economics’ sites the previous post on ‘Whuffie’ and currencies‘. I wasn’t comfortable doing so without editing-out the comments about the ‘Ready? Fire! Aim…’ syndrome, which were specific to the conversations to which …
Tagged with: anarchist, complexity, economics, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, Futures, methodology, power, principles, responsibility, Society, values
Notes on ‘Business Anarchist’
Several people have asked me for more information about the book I’m writing at present, ‘The Business Anarchist‘, so here’s a quick summary of the themes and structure. Who or what is a ‘business-anarchist‘? Anyone who works with inherent uncertainty …
Essentialist annoyances
Message from the Amazon is a recent post by one of my favourite writers on corporate social responsibility, Christine Arena. It includes a summary of the ‘oil wars’ occurring at present around purported oil-reserves in the Amazon basin, the work …
New posts on my SideWise blog
Been some time here since I mentioned my other more business-oriented weblog, SideWise.biz. I’ve added a fair few items over the past few months: The market as economy: how ‘the market’ consists of much more than just transactions, and how …
Tagged with: anarchist, Business, business architecture, complexity, economics, Enterprise architecture, purpose, responsibility, side-wise, Society, strategy
Motivation to learn: "Love is a better master than duty"
Came across this comment whilst exploring laptop.org.au, the Australian arm of the One Laptop Per Child movement [my emphasis]: Learning is our main goal. … Epistemologists from John Dewey to Paulo Freire to Seymour Papert agree that you learn through …
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Another note on Spiral Dynamics
A couple of quick follow-ups on my recent post on the Spiral Dynamics cultural-assessment framework, which I use in some aspects of my work on business-architecture and enterprise-architecture. First, as per his comment on that post, Kent Bye has assembled …
Tagged with: business architecture, Enterprise architecture, power, responsibility, spiral dynamics, values
More on ‘Dimensions of a Spiral’
This one’s fairly long – quite a bit longer even than my usual over-long posts… Theme here is a framework called Spiral Dynamics (see a previous post on this), which is used to identify value-systems in individuals, groups and organisations. …