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The starfish and the spider
In my quest to understand the full potential of open and collaborative methods of working, I recently found myself re-reading “The Starfish and the Spider: The unstoppable power of leaderless...
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A different kind of job title
The companies where I’ve worked for the last twenty years – first Psion PLC, then Symbian Ltd – were, in the end, commercially driven companies, with a mission from shareholders to generate profits....
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Influencer – the power to change anything
Are people in general dominated by unreason? Are there effective ways to influence changes in behaviour, for good, despite the irrationality and other obstacles to change? Here’s an example quoted by...
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The art of community
A PDF version of the presentation I gave last Thursday to a meeting of the Software/Open Source SIG of the Cambridge Wireless Network, “Open ecosystems – Communities that build the future“, is now...
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Major new challenges to receive X PRIZE backing
The X PRIZE Foundation has an audacious vision. On its website, it describes itself as follows: The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to create radical...
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Prioritising the best peer pressure
In a world awash with conflicting influences and numerous potential interesting distractions, how best to keep “first things first“? A big part of the answer is to ensure that the influences we are...
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