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Wednesday, June 30, 2004
 


Henry Stimson. "The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him." [Quotes of the Day]
What do you think? []  links to this post    4:10:26 PM  
Effective executives as emergent property

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Earl Mardle nails it. But so long as there is demand from insecure executives for rules they're supposed to follow, there will be gurus to provide them with exactly that.
"My kvetch about management gurus is that they observe patterns of behaviour in successful people, enterprises etc and then convert them into rules which other, less successful people or organisations are supposed to follow in order to be successful.

[...] Instead of trying to get people to shoehorn themselves into some executive straightjacket, we should be looking through our businesses for people in the ranks who display the characteristics he talks about. We should be encouraging and challenging and testing those people, just as we do with athletes, pushing them to push their envelopes to see if they can break through to become one of the "effective executives" and making sure that when they do, we have given them plenty of reason to be loyal, or at least grateful as they move on.

[...] Effective Executives are not a product that we can make, but an emergent property of correctly functioning organisations."

What do you think? []  links to this post    12:58:06 PM  
Improving the Internet Topic Exchange

I believe I have finally seen the light as to how the Internet Topic Exchange (ITE) could be made simpler to use and more viral at once, taking one cue from my colleague Stephen's recent ridiculously easy shibboleth strategy for putting together conference aggregators and another from Joshua Shachter's now-defunct reversible.org.
  1. Right now submitting a post to a channel requires people to either fill in a form on the channel page of their choice or send a TrackBack ping to the channel. Both are simple, but still harder than they should. How about adding a third option: simply link to the channel in your post. To make it easier, the top of each channel page could even provide some standard boilerplate chunk of the requisite HTML.
  2. In order for this to work the ITE needs to watch the participating weblogs. It already watches for weblog updates, so just let people register their blog or feed once and let the ITE pick out the posts that link to it as they appear thereafter.
Note that this new option automagically generates visibility for the channels on participating blogs with every post submitted; this is one of the key elements that were missing for effective word-of-mouth propagation of awareness of the Exchange. I'm kicking myself for having taken so long to find a simpler way.

Of course, along with ease of use comes more spam. I've been thinking about this too - more later.

This post also appears on channels topic exchange
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What do you think? []  links to this post    10:59:21 AM  
Increiblemente facil la formacion de grupos

For some reason Spanish-speaking bloggers are among those who show the most interest in the Internet Topic Exchange. They use it for instance to help build a directory of spanish blogs, and for metablogging. Now Peruvian blogger Juan Arrelano seems to have caught the bug and has started a translation & discussion of ridiculously easy group-forming.

What do you think? []  links to this post    10:16:48 AM  


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