I wish I could say I'm shocked at the attendance at your session compared with a session on a new tool.
It must feel pretty exasperating, Harold.

I don't know if you saw this post on google+ by David Gray (http://bit.ly/uGHv3T) linking to a study that showed formal structures still drive most communications. I would think/hope Valdis Krebs and others would have contrary data, but given most people start within formal (and, hierarchical) structures I can imagine in so many cases nothing but bald necessity will shift people's practices and mindsets about work, learning and management.

My sense is that even networks will have structure (formed and governed by purpose and relationship) even if it's an emergent structure, and even if the structure changes over time. So the challenge here seems to me about how to enable the transition from the current formal-hierarchical to the networked. Because that change isn't going to be instantaneous and there will be overlaps between the two ways of managing.

I don't get to your blog as often as I'd wish so I'm sure you've addressed these questions in the past.