http://www.theappgap.com/transforming-organizations-participative-media-the-power-to-convene.html Apps, Strategies, and Best Practices for Web-based work Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:56:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.theappgap.com/transforming-organizations-participative-media-the-power-to-convene.html/comment-page-1#comment-23250 Jenny Ambrozek Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:59:59 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/transforming-organizations-participative-media-the-power-to-convene.html#comment-23250 Indeed Shiv. But I just read an intriguing article about Gore-Tex whose founder figured how to empower organizations in a democratic structure nearly 5 decades ago, and before low cost collaboration tools started nudging leadership to decentralize control through their organizations. Here is the FT article inspired by Gary Hamel's Gore-Tex case in his "Future of Management:" http://snurl.com/72mja [www_ft_com] and my commentary: http://snurl.com/72mlj [c21org_typepad_com] Indeed Shiv. But I just read an intriguing article about Gore-Tex whose founder figured how to empower organizations in a democratic structure nearly 5 decades ago, and before low cost collaboration tools started nudging leadership to decentralize control through their organizations. Here is the FT article inspired by Gary Hamel’s Gore-Tex case in his “Future of Management:” http://snurl.com/72mja [www_ft_com] and my commentary:
http://snurl.com/72mlj [c21org_typepad_com]

]]> http://www.theappgap.com/transforming-organizations-participative-media-the-power-to-convene.html/comment-page-1#comment-22829 Shiv Singh Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:11:06 +0000 http://www.theappgap.com/transforming-organizations-participative-media-the-power-to-convene.html#comment-22829 I like the notion of the individual being the new group. It reminds me of Clay Shirky's book <i>Here Comes Everybody</i> which focuses on how people are self organizing everywhere thanks to social technologies. I think the next challenge is to motivate, inspire and lead people to self-organize in manners that are aligned with a corporation's objectives. You don't want self-organizing just for the sake of it, do you? I like the notion of the individual being the new group. It reminds me of Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody which focuses on how people are self organizing everywhere thanks to social technologies. I think the next challenge is to motivate, inspire and lead people to self-organize in manners that are aligned with a corporation’s objectives. You don’t want self-organizing just for the sake of it, do you?

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