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""No company ever downsized its way to greatness.""

"The authors' work studying leadership over the past six years has led them to develop a framework of distributed leadership. Within that model, leadership consists of four capabilities: sensemaking, relating, "visioning," and inventing. Sensemaking involves understanding and mapping the context in which a company and its people operate. A leader skilled in this area can quickly identify the complexities of a given situation and explain them to others. The second capability, relating, means being able to build trusting relationships with others through inquiring (listening with intention), advocating (explaining one's own point of view), and connecting (establishing a network of allies who can help a leader accomplish his or her goals). Visioning, the third capability, means coming up with a compelling image of the future. It is a collaborative process that articulates what the members of an organization want to create. Finally, inventing involves developing new ways to bring that vision to life."

"The Bottom-line:  In the The As-a-Service Economy, we only care about achieving our desired outcomes  Here's the nub of the argument, while people like Hillary Clinton want to turn back the clock and protect the legacy job-for-life, the vast majority of people really do not care that labor forces are being disrupted, along with legacy business models and obsolete practices.  Today's world is all about faster, cheaper, more accessible services - and to hell with any obsolete process, system or person which gets in the way of convenient and affordable As-a-Service models."

"Way before thinking about an exit strategy, great entrepreneurs tend to focus on building something that increases in value every year. They work tirelessly to create something relevant that can scale. Their mindset is bent on taking the company as far as it can go for as long as possible."

"At the moment, we're living in a world where cloud, social and mobile, three disruptive technologies are happening simultaneously. We've never had three technologies disruptions happening at the same time like in the last 40 years of IT. And that's why we're living in a world of digital disruption, which is another way of kind of explaining"

Individuals engaged in mass collaboration in Wikipedia may join to work recurrently with the same partners. It may well be that a significant portion of Wikipedia content is produced this way. Therefore, it is important to study how such groups emerge. In this paper, we argue how such recurrence may involve identity work that creates a sense of 'we-ness.' We provide a case from Wikipedia, focusing on how individual Wikipedians came together to work on a collaborative Feature Article task. Furthermore, the same people came together in other content collaborations, and they identified themselves as a group. The findings suggest that identity work can bridge mass collaborations to the emergence of smaller-scale sustained groups. Our theoretical contribution brings together research streams on mass collaboration, group dynamics, and identity. This offers interesting pathways for further research.

The Collaborative Economy Defined http://t.co/k9fe2DhUSR #sharingeconomy @jowyang http://t.co/QBkaibemQP "The Collaborative Economy Defined" http://t.co/AITNlrjz2z by @jowyang