THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY (2)
Posted on June 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
We live in the age of transparency. In 1994, it might have been easy to get away with such shenanigans, but with the massive shift of personal records and personal profiles to databases easily accessed over the Internet, virtually everything about you can be discovered quite easily. The fact that The New Oxford American Dictionary [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
In the olden days (before about 1995), when people wanted to buy, say, a toaster, they would pick a local store known for its good selection or good pricing of small appliances and buy the one that seemed best for their needs. If they were particularly industrious, thrifty, or enamored of the process, they might [...]
Read More..>>CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? (2)
Posted on June 27, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
When we communicate electronically, we communicate less dynamically, with less give-and-take. Electronic communication tends to be unidirectional and sequential. When it does overlap, like in an instant message chat, it often ceases to make sense :
MarkTheCEO [11:16 AM]: Hi Cindy.
CindyCEOAssist [11:16 AM]: Hello Mark.
MarkTheCEO [11:16 AM]: RU prepared for the mtg w/ counsel?
CindyCEOAssist [11:16 AM]: [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Business is an ecosystem, distance no longer keeps us apart, the ties that bind us are looser than ever, and there is a new us whose members change almost daily; and it is all made possible because electronic communication fills the synapses between us. Electronic communication is both a boon and a bane. It makes [...]
Read More..>>DISTANCE UNITES US (3)
Posted on June 25, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Before you read the results, take a moment to think how you would respond.
In countries with a strong Protestant tradition and stable democracies, like the United States, Switzerland, Sweden, and Australia, nearly 80 percent thought the friend had “no” or only “some” right to expect help, and would choose to tell the truth in court. [...]
DISTANCE UNITES US (2)
Posted on June 24, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Opportunity conjoins us faster than we have developed frameworks for understanding each other and getting along. Distance no longer separates us; new communications capabilities render distance irrelevant by connecting us instantly. In this proximal world, the opportunities for misunderstandings abound. How do you write an email to someone if you can’t tell from their e-mail [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Business in the information age is complicated not only by the myriad new forms of relationship upon which it is built, but also by the increasing remoteness of those with whom we build it. The philosopher David Hume once said that the moral imagination diminishes with distance. 1 By this he meant you don’t feel [...]
Read More..>>THE TIES THAT BIND US (2)
Posted on June 22, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
In place of the nice, tidy company-as-city-state, the population of corporations more closely resembles a Central American rainforest. Tall, old-growth trees define the greater geography while vines twist this way and that, connecting one tree to another, to a bush, to the ground. Lichen and moss grow in patches everywhere, often on top of one [...]
Read More..>>Technology’s Trespass
Posted on June 21, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Relationships. Communication. Connection. Collaboration. This is how we fill the spaces between us. Communicate comes from the Latin word communicare, meaning “to share.” So it follows that as the nature of the way we communicate changes, so too does the nature of our relationships. Over the past decade, the intercession of technology into our interpersonal [...]
Read More..>>GETTING FLATTENED (3)
Posted on June 20, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The world has become even more like the game of chess. Every piece on a chessboard is highly specialized, with virtues and vices, strengths and weaknesses, assets and liabilities. Some move diagonally and some move straight; some roam free and unfettered while others are tightly regimented. But, with a few exceptions, you can’t typically achieve [...]
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