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- Redefining corporate self-interest
The tumult of North Africa’s rising threw unexpected light on the defining qualities of corporate self-interest. Jacob Weisberg, writing in Slate, examines the three strategies of Facebook, Google, & Twitter in relation to Arab Revolt. And the upshot is that very different corporate “values” really do affect companies; and that acting on values may have [...]
- Too much good stuff to contribute
Just got off the phone with my friend Bob. And the subject got around to making a “contribution” to human-kind across the relatively short lifespans we’re allotted. We’d got past the part about the relativity of what we’d done; and the part about the challenges of the present and future; and even the part about [...]
- twitter’s dynamic organization
Its been productive in linking me to thinking (writing) in areas of interest. And its follower-following network allows quick blasts to all and sundry. Here’s my first thought: dynamic principles about individuals and groups certainly apply. The same way a business or corporate entity follows a shortened human developmental line from start-up to mastery and [...]
- On Twitter: Productive Narcissism
I am a late adaptor. A post-Luddite. Yesterday, I sent my first tweet. And my wife now claims that she is a “twidow”. There is some truth to this. I’m fascinated by the bricolage: the carnival and the possibility. This morning, having replied to a posting sent from an Irish academic, he and I exchanged [...]
- Learning From Cases: 2. The Adrenaline Rush of Manic Trading
Twitter has begun to serve the social function of anchoring day traders to one another in a virtual community. Checking in on one another’s picks and strategies, supporting one another’s creative trading approaches, the positive takeaway is that a lonely and isolating occupation has developed a communicative outlet. The downside is that as with drinking, [...]
