The Zombie map of the world | News | guardian.co.uk What happens when you ask Google Maps for the location of zombies around the world? I’ve always seen our fascination with zombies as a kind of metaphor for feelings of alienation – you know the kind that tend to come with the trappings of modern …
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Keeping Wall Street Like Cairo, Not London
What we are seeing in Occupy Wall Street and related events around the country is our youth, at least some small segment of it, telling us that everything is not alright. They are telling us that our social fabric is stretched to a dangerous point of fraying.
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Small-Town Gossip Moves to the Web, Anonymous and Vicious – NYTimes.com The same Web sites created as places for candid talk about local news and politics are also hubs of unsubstantiated gossip, stirring widespread resentment in communities where ties run deep, memories run long and anonymity is something of a novel concept. A generation ago, …
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Science in a Complex World: In touch with our inner hero – The Santa Fe New Mexican In addition, we modeled mathematically what happens to groups over many generations. Our results lined up remarkably well with the data we gathered. Groups exhibiting two co-existing traits seemed to prevail and persist throughout history: cooperation within groups …
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Digital Social Grooming (Ed Batista) And while I agree with Boyd’s basic premise–i.e. social grooming is an innate behavior so of course it’s going to find expression within social networks–I also agree with Haque’s critique that those networks are devalued when too much content takes the form of ritual displays of grooming behavior. Some amount …
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Heal thyself: Trust people – health – 30 August 2011 – New Scientist “It’s probably the single most powerful behavioural finding in the world,” agrees Charles Raison of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, who studies mind-body interactions. “People who have rich social lives and warm, open relationships don’t get sick and they live longer.” tags: …
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Stowe Boyd · The Architecture Of Cooperation The new architecture of work is now emerging, after decades of transition. White collar work became knowledge work which has now become creative work. The transition from process to networks is not just a recasting, not just a different style of communication. The work is styled as information …
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Strategy Leadership & the Soul – YouTube Inspiring video to help us rethink what is possible with our organizations. tags: strategy leadership soul Tips, tricks and resources to make your own gorgeous infographics Infographics (or Information Graphics) are graphic visual representations of data or information, presented in a way to make it easier to consume …
What Should I Call It?
I need some help deciding what term to use when I write about organizations. Companies? Corporations? Organizations? Firms? Enterprises? Please. Let me know what you think.
5 Steps to Influence Mapping
Part 2 of 4: As Walmart’s move to sustainability illustrates, when you scratch below the surface of most institutional change, there’s usually a handful of relationships that play a disproportionately large role in bringing those changes about. That’s part of the reason it’s hard to truly separate institutional change from personal change. Each of us depends on our ability …
