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It seems to me that it’s time we acknowledge that the office-based ways of working are on their way out. But that doesn’t mean place is not crucial. What it does mean is that we have to think about place in an altogether more sophisticated and nuanced way.

Leverage "swift trust."

Pro-actively build interpersonal trust.

Communicate with predictability.

Technology Forecast: Transforming collaboration with social tools explores how to confront communications overload and boost collaboration potential by making best use of the new powerful social tools. Business is inherently social, which is why collaboration and communications that scale are so fundamental.

games are powerful metaphors. That means, like stories, they can and do mean different things to different people. The task of the facilitator is to ensure that all participants get the message in the game that is relevant to themselves and translate that message back to the workplace. In other words, the purpose of the game is to have participants see things differently and as a result positively change some element of their workplace behaviour.

And fame is necessary – but not sufficient – for a commercially successful career in the arts.That quality of "necessary but not sufficient" surfaces again and again in discussions of the transformative power of the internet. It's also the source of much of the controversy about just how transformative the internet actually is.