April 2, 2012 – Last week, I had the privilege of spending a few hours with a delegation from Egypt—four young men who were involved in the April 6th revolution and continue to work for democracy in Egypt. They were at the end...
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October 14, 2010 – Peggy Holman is the co-author of a book that I consider to be one of the bibles for my work here at IISC – The Change Handbook. This wonderful resource was also required reading for a graduate course I taught...
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August 2, 2010 – But while abandoning a calcifying infrastructure should become a more viable choice, I am also interested in finding ways to shift the way we work even within our organizations. If we start to do things differently within our organizations, then...
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October 12, 2009 – In last week’s New Yorker, John Cassidy wrote a must-read article entitled “Rational Irrationality – The real reason that capitalism is crash-prone”. It is about the complexity of the financial market and brings to mind another classic book written by...
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October 7, 2009 – Recently at the Web of Change Conference at Hollyhock in British Columbia, there was a session on “Organizational Transformation,” facilitated in large part by Sam Dorman and Jason Mogus (with some thoughts thrown in by Gibran Rivera and myself). In...
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September 25, 2009 – Friends, what if less really IS more? What if in order to spend more time on the things that matter, we really do need to spend less time working on those things and on everything else, too? What if its...
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August 17, 2009 – The debate about how to reform health care in the United States rages across the country in a series of town hall meetings, constant cable coverage and apparent confusion and misinformation. I have been watching all of this from the...
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August 10, 2009 – Who doesn’t? And who isn’t? We at IISC are inspired daily by those we cross paths with and all that we might read. And it is always wonderful to pass the inspiration along. Well, you might remember this video from...
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July 10, 2009 – “We have handed over the tools of creation.” “We have democratized creativity to an extent that would have been unthinkable years ago.” –James Boyle Duke Law Professor and founder of Creative Commons, James Boyle, gives a talk at Google Zeitgeist...
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June 4, 2009 – In the final chapter of “What Would Google Do?” (recently referred to by Marianne), Jeff Jarvis makes a provocative statement about the future and promise of a networked world. Many of the points Jarvis makes appear to turn things on...
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