Friday’s Finds

Friday’s finds on social media

humanity

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Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. I am currently in Toronto, returning from speaking at the Institute for Performance and Learning where my topic was ‘Humanity: the killer app’.

“One reason I find it a revelation to read newspapers, listen to radio: Human-curated news is tremendously more varied than machine-filtered.” – @mims

“the people driving for Über are doing R&D for automatic cars!” says @rushkoff at #platformcoop – via @jerrymichalski

“I’m not a human resource. Certainly not an asset. Don’t even mention a human capital. I’m a human being, period.” – @Mintzberg141 via @rachelbotsman

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working and living

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Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”  — Upton Sinclair – via @jerrymichalski

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” – Mexican proverb – via @LalitBhojwani

“What we want most as free & independent human beings is agency.” – @dsearls – via @katrynadow

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a new economy

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Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.

“It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degree of freedom?” – Buckminster Fuller, via @decasteve

“Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.” – Peter Drucker, via @africadean

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Friday’s Late Finds

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Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds [due to my travel and work schedule in South Africa this week, I am a day late].

“Money is the wealthy person’s curtain which hides all their defects from the world.” – Anon – via @RogerFrancis1

@Orgnet – “You need both strong ties and weak ties for a successful professional network”. More: Professional Social Graphs

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network era work

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Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.

@skap5 – “The economic game has been completely transformed and the farm system where the next generation learns how to play hasn’t.”

The Buurtzorg Model of socialcare, via @CG_carrGomm

Cutting bureaucracy is only one part of the socio-political equation, because the Buurtzorg model is one of workplace autonomy and democratic leadership where decision making and setting targets is decentralised to clinical teams.

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sense-making with fridays finds

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I have written over 250 posts classified as Friday’s Finds. These are compilations of what has passed by me on social media over the past week or two. Originally these were posted once a week and now once per fortnight. With a critical mass of posts I now have an additional resource to mine for insight. For instance, I regularly search my blog for posts I have written so that I can recall my thoughts. I call it my outboard brain. With Friday’s Finds, I can search the posts of others to see what they have to say on a certain topic. For example, I can search to see what others have to say on leadership.

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mastering complexity

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Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. This is the 250th in the series.

“I think it’s a discovery all artists make: the most interesting and bravest work is likely the hardest to make a living from.” – @berkun

“Our most successful clients have cross-flowing knowledge networks to handle the complexity/variety of their marketplace.” – @orgnet

“In a sense, cooperation is the temporary alignment of multiple, occasionally contradictory, purposes.” – @indalogenesis

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