The YouTube Symphony Orchestra as a Virtual Team – an insider’s view

I confess to owning two blogs.  One is my work blog, and the other, this, a more whimsical personal blog.   As sometimes happen, there is a blog item that falls between two stools.  Here I blog about virtual teams (and of course, Nasrudin), and there I blog about sales channels – sometimes known as routes [...]

Social tools invade the enterprise. Do productivity and security suffer?

Blogging and KM expert Bill Ives writes about Sneaking Enterprise 2.0 into the Office , a look at how IT departments are swamped by the pace of technology change on the consumer front and how employees are increasingly reliant on their IM, their Facebook and other social tools to stay productive.  Ironically, managers often argue that what they [...]

Social networks for the capitalist

Social network tools often have a consumer and freebie connotation – wikis, blogs, IM, collaborative sites.  Pundits point out that a common thread, besides being able to support communities of interest, is their “bottom-up” nature.  By that, it is meant they can be installed, or used without anyone else’s help and in business that means without the involvement [...]

Ascynchronicity

Having just attended a Wealth Dynamics weekend run by Roger Hamilton, one is tempted to gush forth, claiming epiphany.  My hands are restrained, though I have started to put into practice many of the thoughts that resulted.  Many of those ideas are on synchrony and even synchronicity – a term coined by Jung.  And it has opened [...]