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Showing posts with label hierarchy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hierarchy. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Deconstructing Risk Aversion

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by Kent Aitken A year ago a friend joined a new government organization, and one of the things she was struck by was how frank, h...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Risk Aversion in Hierarchies

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by Kent Aitken This is essentially a two-year delayed corollary to Where Good Ideas Go to Die ,  about the nature of hierarchie...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Maximizing the Value of Talk and Ideas

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by Kent Aitken Note: I’ll be at the Digital Governance Forum today (January 28-29, 2015). Drop me a line if you’re there and...
Friday, November 7, 2014

On Influence and Hierarchy in Bureacracies

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by Nick Charney In bureaucracies we often mistake hierarchy as a proxy for influence. But my view is that hierarchy is knowab...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Idealism and Pragmatism for Organizations

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by Kent Aitken Chelsea recently walked through  some considerations about loosening hierarchy , and put a question to her "renew...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Through the Looking Glass: How Google Glass Could Radically Change Your Organization

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by Nick Charney A couple of weeks ago I read an article in Rolling Stone entitled " The Future of Movies: How Will Google Gla...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Where Good Ideas Go To Die

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by Kent Aitken A year ago, I wrote a post about how and why good ideas face resistance ( see: Renewal and Resistance ). Today we st...