Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behaviour. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behaviour. - Dee Hock

via Euan Semple (via johntropea)

7 December 2012 74 johntropea

Notes

  1. getpaired reblogged this from michelleboisson
  2. preconcievedmisconception reblogged this from contacthome
  3. swsmh reblogged this from stoweboyd
  4. seeyouonthewaydown reblogged this from kenyatta
  5. michelleboisson reblogged this from allisonacs
  6. kevanboyles reblogged this from emergentfutures
  7. urbntings reblogged this from studio630
  8. allisonacs reblogged this from tonyhschu
  9. studio630 reblogged this from stoweboyd
  10. kezgc reblogged this from tonyhschu
  11. contacthome reblogged this from emergentfutures
  12. kdnewman reblogged this from emergentfutures
  13. theluispez reblogged this from emergentfutures
  14. thedoracle reblogged this from emergentfutures
  15. yaronb reblogged this from emergentfutures
  16. iankandy reblogged this from emergentfutures
  17. thiswillbedust reblogged this from emergentfutures
  18. mygenerate reblogged this from emergentfutures
  19. ifeenmichellee reblogged this from emergentfutures
  20. shorthairedgirl reblogged this from emergentfutures
  21. ihappentobebutch reblogged this from emergentfutures
  22. tonyhschu reblogged this from kenyatta
  23. pricek4 reblogged this from kenyatta
  24. davidsabine reblogged this from emergentfutures
  25. excessbrain reblogged this from kenyatta
  26. serenadesofsmiles reblogged this from kenyatta
  27. julioopps reblogged this from kenyatta

← Previous Post Next Post →

About

Web anthropologist, futurist, author. My focus is the future, and the tectonic forces pushing business, media, and society into an unclear and accelerating future. more.

Working on longer format projects, Sign up for the newsletter.

GigaOM Research analyst and curator.

Also writing beaconstreets.com.

Contact me. or ask me a question.



My Vizify profile.

Socialogy

  • John Hagel | John offers up some great insights, like the fact that passion is lower the larger that businesses get.

  • Euan Semple | A chat with my old pal, and the author of Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do

  • Will McInnes | The author of Culture Shock and managing director of Nixon/McInnes

  • Jennifer Magnolfi | An interview with the woman who said, 'Work is not a place you go, it's a thing you do'.

    • Hot Now

  • What Drives Us? | A draft chapter of my book, discussing motivations, Maslow's hierarchy, and fluidarity.

  • Socialogy: Interview With John Hagel | I Speak with Joh Hagel about the innovation at the edge.

  • Complex organisation arises from webs of interaction among causal factors | So, it turns out that DNA is, in fact, a great metaphor for business culture, but only after you realize that DNA is not a few hundred off-on switches, but instead a universe of unknowable complexities, that we can interact with, and understand at some abstract cartoonish level, but not control, and never fully comprehend.

  • Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven | Paul Ford

  • Innovators Get Better With Age | Companies make a mistake by relying too much on the innoations of the young, because Nobel laureats don't come into their prime until their 50s.

    • Oldie

  • Infodemics | 2009 | Passing incomplete or inaccurate information about some risk event can make people take actions that increase the damage of the event itself.

    • Lynx theme created by Andrew Stichbury for Tumblr.