Recently on a Network Leadership blog, an authority remarked, “The number one task of network leaders is to help others become network leaders.” Of course, this principle is important, desirable, but, not ‘number one.’ Sidebar:...
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Storytelling for Leaders
Storytelling for Leaders Program Outcomes: Influence without relying on authority. Build fast rapport. Change minds and inspire action. Anecdote’s Storytelling for Leaders program will teach you the techniques you need to better influence, engage and...
11 Simple People Rules
1. Think first of the other person. This is THE foundation — the first requisite — for getting along with others. And it is the one truly difficult accomplishment you must make. Gaining this, the...
Popular Management Techniques
Popular management fads come and go. Most are simply rhetorical hyperbole. Many are harmful; scarce few are useful (EBITDA, CAGR, DCF). Here is a partial list of management methods from the Website 12Manage. How many...
Biology of Business
Biology is a far better philosophical and practical foundation for 21st Century business than physics and mechanics. Process management, information technology, engineering, and measurement offer poor archetypes for business prosperity. Multidisciplinary naivety, an overbearing mechanical orientation,...
Patterns
It is rewarding to see patterns enter mainstream business vernacular. Except for biology, patterns have long been an academic backwater. Analysis of patterns and structures are seeing increased use in business. Many examples are now in...
Conversation is Good Business
MIT validates the obvious: conversation is good business. Authentic conversation is a key modality of The Social Enterprise and your Colabria Action Research Networks. In the BofA call center: “Individuals who talked to more...
Business Oxymora Meets Culture
Modern enterprise management is rife with oxymora. Many are hilarious corporate doublespeak such as constant change, accurate estimate or irregular pattern. Others aren’t funny, they’re harmful. Among the most harmful is codified culture. Too often...
Employee Engagement
Kids Speak Out on Student (Employee) Engagement by Heather Wolpert-Gawron Image credit: iStockphoto Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement is is an excellent essay on how to improve student engagement in the classroom. It is...
Management Science
At the Management Science site ‘12manage’ they ask you to select your Management Interest Group. Some are listed below. Of course, everyone uses CAGR, EBITDA, and P/E Ratio every day. How many others do you know?...
What is Colabria Action Research?
Colabria is an action research network. Scholars and academics sometimes call it praxis intervention. The focus is proximate. The scope is global. Colabria conducts periodic collaborations, conferences and confabulations. They are known as Colabria Clusters....
Historical Quotes
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” — Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas...
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Brooks’ Law
The global praxis ecosystem of Colabria Action Research is inhabited by recognized authorities on large IT system design, development and deployments. Commentary on very large enterprise and consumer systems helps refract, anneal and share decades...
IoT Explained
The Internet of Things (IoT) is very, very simple. It is easy to describe. IoT is Internet devices consisting of sensors, embedded computing and radios that create value. Period. It is the essential model, the...
Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing exponentially. IoT will impact all dimensions of business, education, government, military and civil society. IoT propels Colabria’s traditional action/research initiatives and enterprise advisory activities. At Colabria we recently...
Colabria Enterprise Clusters
Colabria is an action research network. Scholars and academics call it praxis intervention. The focus is proximate. The scope is global. Periodic collaborations, conferences, and confabulations propel Colabria. They are known as Colabria Clusters. The...
Collective Intelligence 2015
Collective Intelligence 2015 May 31 – June 2, 2015 Conference @ the Marriott Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA Please go to the conference link and click on the Call for Papers tab for more...
Nobel Prize
Thomson Reuters just released their annual forecast of potential winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in each category: chemistry, physics, medicine, and economics. Excerpt: “Mark S. Granovetter at Stanford University is more of a sociologist than...
Complexity Digest September 2014
Complexity Digest September 2014. Complex network theory and the brain We have known for at least 100 years that a brain is organized as a network of connections between nerve cells. But in the last...
Global Forum
Welcome to the Global Forum/Shaping the Future 2014 in Geneva! The Global Forum 2014 is taking place on November Monday 17th & Tuesday 18th in Geneva, Switzerland at the CICG – International Conference Center...
Distributed Collaboration Summit
Collaborative Strategies Introduces First Ever Distributed Collaboration Summit Conference Promises to Deliver Latest Insights Into Collaboration and Distributed Teams in the New Workplace SAN MATEO, CALIF. (Sept. 11, 2014) — Research firm Collaboration Strategies, Inc....
The Future Declassified
The Future Declassified by Mathew Burrows hosted by Paul Saffo Tuesday September 23, 02014 7:30pm The Interval Fort Mason, San Francisco Advanced Tickets (limited number) The volatility of today’s world is apparent just by...
Network Life
Please find below some worthwhile learning experiences for networks. These massive open online courses (MOOCs) will help make sense of our Network Life. Recommended by Colabria. Networked Life University of Pennsylvania Begins September 1, 2014...
Early Stage Financial Tech
Trends in Early Stage Financial Tech a seminar presented by seedchange Eventbrite Registration Rqr’d: http://bit.ly/1zsZ5XG Thursday, September 4th, 2014, 6-8pm Agenda 6-6:15pm Welcome & Conversation 6:15-7pm The Mascot Wine Tasting with Will Harlan 7-7:30pm Discussion on Trends in Early Stage Financial Technology...