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Friday’s finds on social media
Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. – Oscar Wilde” – via @BestOscarWilde
@ShawnCallahan – “The stories we find, and especially the ones we retell, change who we become.”
@edmorrison – “Our challenge is not to banish hierarchies, but to balance them with open systems, properly guided.“
Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.
I am spending my weeks in Toronto on a consulting assignment (which also explains my infrequent blogging), returning home on weekends, but I thought the last find at the bottom of this post rather appropriate.
“Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when circumstances are set in extremes.” – Prince Metternich – via @k1v1n
@leadingincontxt – Dealing With Complexity in Leadership – with various links
Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.
@contepomi90 – “Power isn’t power if you need to wait for someone else to give it to you, who can also take it away at any time. That’s self-explanatory.”
@decasteve – “Don’t try to change human nature. Instead, go after the tools. New tools make new practices. Better tools make better practices.”
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” – Michelangelo – via @UpSearchRetain
Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.
@flowchainsensei – “If you ‘don’t have time’ to look outside your own little bubble – what then in times of change?”
“How do we evaluate teachers? We never speak of this. It is irrelevant in our country. Instead, we discuss, ‘How can we help them?'” – Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish Educator, via @PascalVenier
“Students are widgets. They move through the factory (school) and we add value to them.” – Jose Ferreira, via @opencontent
@gsiemens – “Instead of focusing on engagement, we should focus on developing disciplines of thought. Work the person, not the content.”
Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.
@weissblatt – “Sharing is becoming a life skill. Knowledge is power only if shared.”
Thomas Edison – “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” – via @BrunoGebarski
@SteveKLabnik – “We used to think Open Source was enough to save us, but it’s control of the network that really matters.”
Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.
@KarenGowen – “Writing a novel takes a long time but not writing it takes even longer.”
@EskoKilpi – “Reach, together with symmetry and equality, were the things that made the Internet such a radical social innovation.”
Polish proverb: “Every time you feel yourself being pulled into other people’s nonsense, repeat these words: not my circus, not my monkeys.” – via @nickbilton
Here are some observations and insights that were shared on social media this past fortnight. I call these Friday’s Finds.
“The nature of work is changing. People’s relationship with work is changing. The changes to society will be vast.” – @gapingvoid
Andrew McAfee: offshoring is a way station on the way to automation – via @ebala
The research is clear that technological progress has greatly benefitted people in the developing world so far. I wonder, though, if automation and deindustrialization might be creating a ‘silicon ceiling’ on growth — a situation in which even low wages are no longer an attractive alternative to technology. If so, the global shift away from labor and toward capital will only accelerate.
Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via social media this past fortnight.
@SeriousPony: “Again, while enlightened animal trainers are recognizing the danger of a purely behavioral / Skinner approach, VC’s [venture capitalists] are funding it for humans.”
Gamification addresses the symptoms of a broken system, but does nothing to fix it. via @ericzigus
When people care about and are invested in their work, when they draw a sense of purpose and identity from their work, when they understand themselves as part of a greater whole, gamification is not needed. Rather than trying to change people’s behaviour when they are reluctant to engage in tasks, the point of which is lost on them, organisations should ensure that people draw a genuine sense of identity from their work. People are truly engaged when work is meaningful to them, when they can see the purpose of what they do in contributing to the overall purpose of the organisation.
Fridays Finds this week have been curated by the PKM workshop in Sydney, NSW. (Marion Louvel, @chemenesinson, @michelleockers, @soozietwits, Siobhan Sutherland Rogers, Julia, Elizabeth Robinson)