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Repeating the Mistake of Abstracting Social Connections in System Design

Repeating the Mistake of Abstracting Social Connections in System Design

by Lee Bryant | Jul 1, 2022 | Digital Transformation, Enablement, Future of Work, Organisational structures, Technology | 0 comments

A few thoughts and links on scale, connection and mutualism in the design of social systems and organisations Scale, connection & mutualism in system design One of the repeated tragedies of ideologies and political systems is the pursuit of scale and control at...
Connecting the company to connect the experience

Connecting the company to connect the experience

by Caroline Boyd | Jan 18, 2018 | Enterprise social platforms, ESN Adoption, Innovation, Organisational structures, Strategy | 0 comments

Overcoming functional silos is high on the list of pain points of most organisations. Important to know is all silos lead to detrimental insularity. This causes teams to lose alignment with the wider org, which has lots of negative knock-on effects. Silos...

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Lee reviews some interesting experiments with AI chatbots, and considers the risks of amplifying the human tendency to deliberately mislead...

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In our latest LinkLog, Sebastian talks about #failure, and how we should approach this in our learning journeys.

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It is Tuesday, and time for our first #LinkLog of 2023. @leebryant talks about how, amid the #AI hype and fear-mongering, there is value today in creating augmentative little helpers in the workplace, rather than trying to simply replace people!

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3 Jan

Meetings are a bug. Today, we shipped a fix to this bug at @Shopify.

To start 2023, we're cancelling all Shopify meetings with more than two people. Let's give people back their maker time. Companies are for builders. Not managers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2023/01/03/shopify-is-canceling-all-meetings-with-more-than-two-people-from-workers-calendars-and-urging-few-to-be-added-back

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