http://gettingclevertogether.com ...and speaking of collaborative intelligence... Thu, 08 May 2008 21:51:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Duane Elgin expands on the topic of the 'Living Universe' and what how recognizing the universe as 'alive' can have profound effects.     http://gettingclevertogether.com/collaboration/collaborative-intelligence-and-the-living-universe/ 'Darwinomics' is a term apparently invented by the script-writers of the 'West-Wing' TV show. Immediately I hear the term I thought of the scramble for money at the expense (pardon the pun) of everything else. It turns out that Darwinomics doesn't have an official defination but was used in such ... http://gettingclevertogether.com/competition/darwinomics-rules-ok/ 'Collaborate online to generate great information and profits' is a succinct list of things we can do to increase our 'collaborative capacity' on the web. I particularly enjoyed the number of hyperlinks to other information sources. One of the ideas that particularly caught my eye was engaging volunteer moderators for ... http://gettingclevertogether.com/uncategorized/collaborative-intelligence-and-moving-from-me-to-we/ Office politics are becoming a major stumbling block to business effectiveness. According to a recent study (Ipsos-Reid - Nov. 2007) instances where office politics obstructed productivity have almost double in the last ten years ago. Although this study was carried out in Canada similar results were discovered in the UK ... http://gettingclevertogether.com/uncategorized/collaborative-intelligence-office-politics/ Imagine this – you arrive to work on Monday morning and find that your team has won the right to handle the company’s most important client. As a result the team will be expanded to deal with the extra workload. There is already a huge list of well qualified and high ... http://gettingclevertogether.com/collaborative-intelligence/collaborative-intelligence-growing-effective-workteams/ How long can the 'command and control' methods of the late 20th Century continue to have value within business? It is becoming increasingly obvious that running things with many layered, and expensive, chains of command is failing. Information flows in two main directions within a organization. Top-down and Bottom-Up. The transition ... http://gettingclevertogether.com/collaboration/collaborative-leadership-the-world-is-bumpy/ ' Without learning about the business, as well as their own tasks, employees cannot make the contributions that they are capable of. This requires dramatic learning efforts, both for the employees who must learn to act in the interest of the whole enterprise, and for the senior managers who ... http://gettingclevertogether.com/peter-senge/collaborative-intelligence-mastery/ Howard Rheingold agrees with me (well that's a relief) competition is over-rated. Social Darwinism- the struggle to the top of the pile is not the only thing going on in natural (including human) systems. You only have to scratch the surface of ecologies in nature to find deep levels of cooperation. ... http://gettingclevertogether.com/competition/collaborative-intelligence-competition-is-overrated/ Made famous by the Wikipedia - wikis are becoming much more than just a way to store information. Socialtext has brought the wiki mainstream with the addition of two new features. Increasingly organizations and business are having to adapt to the huge increase in information they must manage. Enterprise ... http://gettingclevertogether.com/wiki/collaborative-intelligence-socialtext-brings-wiki-mainstream/ ManyOne.net has just come to my attention. It is a very intriguing approach to how to up the ante for collaboration on the Internet. As I explored the site further I discovered that the ManyOne approach really has the potential to bring some 'civialization' to cyberspace. If we consider for a ... http://gettingclevertogether.com/collaboration/collaborative-intelligence-work/