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A great description of complex systems is emerging on wikipedia.

I was just re-reading some papers from IBM’s Institute for Knowledge-Based Organizations (now called Institute for Business Value). I’m writing a report describing an approach …

Nancy White points us to a short report developed and written by seven CPSquare community members. The topic is one that has interested me for …

Dave Snowden used to say that we can only know 150 people at any particular time or for any single network (read identity). This has …

A couple of days ago Steve Jobs made the commencement address to students at Stanford. He tells three simple stories about himself with great effect. …

In case you haven’t already found Etienne Wenger’s publication page, here is the link. In particular I would recommend the report to the CIO Council of …

I heard this story from the New Yorker was circulated among senior Defence staff in Canberra and it unnerved them. I think it’s a fantastic story of …

I was pleasantly surprised last week to be asked by the editor of LeaderValues to submit my paper on communities of practice to their online …

I’m reading an excellent book at the moment called Distributed Work by Pamela Hinds and Sara Kiesler (eds.). While reading the chapter on ‘Face-to-face Communication’ …

Narrative techniques can be applied effectively across a wide range of business issues—the more difficult the better. I’ve been recently working on how to use …