Radical RealTime

Todd’s main goal is to get people to creatively and intelligently think together.  What’s interesting about this is that Todd is not specifically focusing on integrating this into specific projects or even into the general work of employees.

The command-and-control approach to management has in recent years become less and less viable. Globalization, new technologies, and changes in how companies create value and interact with customers have sharply reduced the efficacy of a purely directive, top-down model of leadership. What will take the place of that model? Part of the answer lies in how leaders manage communication within their organizations—that is, how they handle the flow of information to, from, and among their employees. Traditional corporate communication must give way to a process that is more dynamic and more sophisticated. Most important, that process must be conversational.

Zudem wird es in zehn Jahren nicht mehr nur eine IT-Abteilung, sondern zwei geben: eine für die Technik und eine für die Prozesse.

With the right team, you can form a web of connections to make the seemingly impossible practically inevitable.

we can isolate the three main ingredients: information (CMS), communication (portal) and collaboration (web app). From my experience of helping large organizations rethink their intranet, I would had two more ingredients to form the five pillars of social intranets

there is an as-yet undocumented literacy in the relatively unexplored middle, a partially mental and partially technical skill at deploying the appropriate attentional style with the appropriate media at the appropriate time

the need to balance a defense against becoming overloaded by the overwhelming influx of mediated information with a need to know the most accurate and fresh information that will be professionally and personally useful.

Wherever they have looked, researchers have found thriving communities. This is so well documented that there is no longer any scholarly need to demonstrate that community ties exist everywhere, although the alarmed public, politicians and pundits need to be constantly reassured and re-educated. But there is a pressing need to understand what kinds of community flourish, what communities do — and do not do — for people, and how communities operate in different social systems.