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[Facebook]: Frederic Laloux: ‘there is something in the air’

24 Saturday Jan 2015

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Lee Bryant shared his thoughts on the RSA event where Frederic Laloux / Reinventing Organizations spoke recently.

I added one other observation on self-management, per my conversation with Laloux and reviewing his book and others, as a comment to Lee’s post.

Is self-management something that works well in businesses and services where people know and regularly the steps to be done, and where they know well what others are doing?

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Frederic Laloux: ‘there is something in the air’
“It was great to have the opportunity to watch Frederic Laloux talk about his book Reinventing Organisations at the RSA yesterday, although an hour was a frustratingly short amount of time to explore such as rich topic. Laloux believes there is ‘something in the air’ at the moment, which is leading v…”

[Cross-posted from Facebook on January 24, 2015 at 11:34AM]

Stocks and Flows of Knowledge just turned 25!

18 Thursday Dec 2014

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The idea of Knowledge Stocks and Flows just turned 25 years old this month! Considering how much this is highlighted in social business, collaboration, the collaborative economy, self-management and other topics today, we should celebrate.

I think the first paper that I can find that suggests this idea was Dierickx & Cool (INSEAD) in December 1989, as “Asset Stock Accumulation and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage“, in Management Science, Vol. 35, No. 12

This later is reprised in David Deeds & Donna DeCarolis (1999) paper “The Impact of Stocks and Flows of Organizational Knowledge on Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation of the Biotechnology Industry“, in Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications. Paper 4, of the Univ. of St Thomas, Minnesota

Then again by Morris, Snell and Depak of Cornell (2005), “An Architectural Approach to Managing Knowledge Stocks and Flows: Implications for Reinventing the HR Function”

And more recently raised by John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison in their book, The Power of Pull (2012).

To go even further back, one might argue that Friedrich Hayek’s seminal work, The Use of Knowledge, published in 1945 in the American Economic Review, precedes all these, making knowledge flows about 60 years old!

I’ve bundled links to some of these papers here: https://bitly.com/bundles/rawnshah/l

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The Pearl Of Leadership Comes From Collaborative Action

07 Friday Jun 2013

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Dan Pontefract with his book, Flat Army (image: Dan Pontefract)

Serendipitous to the opening chapter of the book, The Mona Lisa Is So Small, I was at the Museé de Louvre visiting the magnificent collection of Italian masters when I received notification of a copy of Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization (Wiley 2013). My reaction was quite sympathetic to Mr. Pontecraft’s own experience per his introduction: Upon entry, crowds of people & tour groups would rush right away upstairs to see the Mona Lisa first and foremost ignoring master works all around for notoriety. Popularity by itself is not leadership in my view.

[Personally, I was enamored by the enormity of the Veronese Paolo Caliari’s,The Wedding Feast at Cana at the opposite end of the same room, for the fascinating amount of networking that occurs in any political wedding ceremony.]

Flat Army covers a lot of interesting idea sources from both the immediate management and social science fields but also a good deal of history and culture. From the idea of Guanxi to the Multilevel Neural Network of North East Italy; from the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western Front in World War I, to the sociology of why bus riders won’t share seats; from JP Rangaswami’s thoughts on trust, to Leo Apotheker’s brief but tumultuous and guarded reign at HP.

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