Monthly Archives: September 2005

We Only Pay for, and Retain, Information That’s ‘Durable’

Posted on September 30, 2005 by Dave Pollard

This week’s New Yorker has a lead commentary by Hendrik Hertzberg (his picture at right). I’ve raved about his writing for years, and whenever I find his name in the contributors list of my weekly edition, I drop everything to … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration 2015

Posted on September 29, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Following is a recap and concatenation of my speeches to the C2: Connect & Collaborate conference and the CRKN annual conference (and welcome to attendees of these conferences): I began by telling the story about how I came to be … Continue reading →

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Blogging from the Connect & Collaborate Conference – Part Two

Posted on September 28, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Some more interesting highlights from the Connect & Collaborate Conference in NYC: The concept of dark blogs — weblogs that reside behind corporate firewalls as part of Intranets. There’s a different set of protocols for these from ‘public’ blogs that … Continue reading →

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Blogging from the Connect & Collaborate Conference – Part One

Posted on September 27, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Today and tomorrow I’m in NYC at a conference called C2: Connect & Collaborate. I’m the closing speaker so I’ll be listening to all the presentations and blogging what I think are the most important and interesting messages about collaboration, … Continue reading →

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Cellular Organization

Posted on September 26, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Jon Husband defines wirearchy, a term he coined, as follows: “A dynamic two-way flow of power and authority, based on knowledge, trust, and credibility, enabled by connected people and technology” ‘-archy’ comes from the Greek word meaning ‘rule, power or … Continue reading →

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Message to My Readers

Posted on September 25, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Every once in awhile I feel the need to shake the casual journalistic pretense of this blog and just talk out loud. If reading stream of consciousness blogging is not your thing, you can skip this post — you won’t … Continue reading →

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Bush Bankrupts America, and Still There Is No Plan

Posted on September 24, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Evidence FEMA Was Deliberately Starved: Although having an incompetent Bush lackey in charge of disaster relief at FEMA certainly didn’t help, there is growing evidence that the staggeringly expensive Bush strategy of centralizing the security bureaucracy is crippling, rather than … Continue reading →

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George Monbiot’s Prescription to Stop Global Warming

Posted on September 23, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Three books in the past year have analyzed the behaviour of corporations and concluded that many of them act in a psychopathic manner, exhibiting indifference to the suffering some of their activities produce and a willingness to act dishonestly and … Continue reading →

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The Changing Behaviour of Organizations

Posted on September 22, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Like people, organizations tend to change slowly, and in response to external forces. In people, changes are more evident from generation to generation (the cause of generation ‘gaps’ and a great deal of family stress). New organizations, likewise, are more … Continue reading →

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Differentiating Your Business

Posted on September 21, 2005 by Dave Pollard

I came across an eight-year-old article the other day entitled Discovering New Points of Differentiation, by Ian MacMillan and Rita McGrath (not online, you can buy it from HBS). It provides a rigorous approach to identifying ways to differentiate your … Continue reading →

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