EBD TV: episode 2: The Chewbaka Project
I like to talk a lot about building social fabric, relationships and trust. Now I’ll be directly experiencing it, with the “Chewbaka Project.” Turns out my 80 year old grandmother needs fulltime care, and will be moving in with me now. Here’s my chance to really flex my creative muscles, and figure out how [...]
A Step-by-Step Guide to Tribal Leadership: Part 1: The Five Stages of Tribal Culture
this is a review of Tribal Leadership. much of the content of this post is taken directly from the book Birds flock, fish school, people “tribe.” I just finished reading Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, an amazing book that teaches how to build a better organization in which the best people want to work and [...]
How do we trust each other without proof?
I was over on Seb Paquet’s Emergent Cities blog this morning, and rereading his inaugural post from about a year ago – What are Emergent Cities? He makes the claim that “we’re about to see the emergence of a new way of conducting innovation that operates quasi-independently of the current money system,” and that the [...]
Agile CultureCon 2012: Call for Speakers! Let’s Hack Culture!
A few days ago I posted about CultureCon (Philly 9/12 and Boston 9/14), an upcoming event hosted by Agile Boston that’s focused on culture analysis, design and implementation in the workplace. The objective of the conference is to “bring to more popular awareness how culture is the gating factor in satisfaction, productivity and learning at [...]
People Like Us
this is a cross-post from the blog of Olaf Lewitz. People Like Us Some people—few people—have a sensibility of others that is more than gradually higher than the average.
What shall we call the thing that comes after conferences?
just a mini mindgrape this afternoon… We’re tired of attending conferences and being talked at, when just about anyone in the audience could themselves be a speaker. Unconferences are nicer, because we can all self-organize and make the event our own. But there’s a next stage we’re ready for. We want something action-oriented, and by [...]
Building the Future of Work and Culture: Announcing CultureCon 2012!
I’ve been a solo artist working independently for several years now, occasionally teaming up with others around events or short-term media projects. Lately though, I’ve become less interested in just doing one-off collaborations. For one, it gets lonely, and secondly, I’m unable to take on the scale of projects I want to work on all [...]
EBD TV: episode 1: Random Hacks of Kindness Fuels Pop Up Burlington
This is my first experiment with a webisode. I’d like to develop a weekly “show” <EBD TV> where I interview via skype or visit innovators in person and find out what they’re up to. I’m already doing this anyway, traveling around the country almost weekly. I might as well be recording it so others might [...]
Awareness Design: The Most Powerful Field for Our Future?
OK, OK, I don’t really subscribe to anything being “the most” of something… the headline was just a bit of sensationalism to capture your attention. *gently slaps self on wrist* However, now that you’re here, I want to make a case for a new field of design. I read a paper over the weekend called [...]