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Jerry Michalski and Jay Cross

Weird to have BMW pushing walking. Megacities as efficient ways of living.

Amazon as great organizational architecture. Push the decisions to the base. The intelligence is out on the periphery. Empowerment through data.

Warren Bennis, video 4:18

Google's mag/book

Rather here's what I see: our institutions, far from evolving and improving, at the time we need to update them most, are actually moving backwards. We're taking tiny steps--and sometimes giant leaps--backwards in time, deconstructing the basic building blocks of civilization. Think I'm exaggerating? Then like most of our talking heads, pundits, and chatterati, you might need a tiny refresher course on what civilization and prosperity are yourself.

Updated design principles Speed of change, ubiquitous connected networks and intensified complexity arising from abstract, distributed knowledge flows are key features of the emerging wave of smart working. Design principles for performance environments therefore additionally need to focus on complexity, the changing nature of knowledge as power, network viability, mobility and social learning.