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The Myth of the Bird Brain

"The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn" - Alvin Toffler

Crows have exceptional problem-solving ability. They could use Road Traffic for cracking nuts. They could use creativity in solving problems and share the solution with its group. Watch this Fascinating Video.

The most important task of the Management 2.0 manager is to provide a context for intelligence to be manifested ... for individuals to solve problems, to learn, unlearn and relearn and share their solutions.

2008-05-15 02:41:28 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Celebrate Talent

“If you pluck an isolated sentence from a book, it will likely lose some or all of its meaning—i.e., if you show it out of context to someone else, they will likely miss some or all of its intended significance. Thus, much of the meaning of a represented piece of information derives from the context in which the information is encoded and decoded.”—Douglas Lenat

In this Connected World, Ideas are cheap. You do a google search, Tada!! You would find free brilliant insights. Yet Ideas are like sentences in a book. Talent alone binds these ideas and provides a coherent Context to the Knowledge Enterprise. The first step towards instrumenting Management 2.0, is welcoming and nurturing Talent rather than playing the banal paean of Teams.

2008-05-12 01:55:00 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Management 2.0 - The Waiting is Over!!

My Changethis Manifesto was published this week and the folks at 1800CEOREAD say that, I already hit about 1000 downloads in the first couple of days.

2008-05-11 01:11:39 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

Sente - Ah! The Connected Intelligence in Uganda

If there is one word to characterize this innovation that is happening in the Edge, it would be Beautiful!!!

The clever Ugandan folks at the bottom of the Pyramid, have figured out how to use the Mobile Phone System as a Banking System.

Check this Sente Phenomenon out,

"Joe lives in Kampala and wants to send his sister Vicky 10,000 Ugandan Shillings - about 4 Euros. He buys a pre-paid top up card for that amount but instead of topping up his own phone calls the local phone kiosk operator in Vicky's village. The phone kiosk operator uses the credit to top up his own phone, takes a commission of anywhere between 10 and 30% and passes the rest onto Vicky in cash. The kiosk operator then resells the airtime at a profit (it is after all his business)."

2008-05-07 04:49:45 GMTComments: 1 |Permanent Link

China - Wait for Management 2.0

New York Times reports that there is a surge of interest in Management Literature, in China to help its surreal growth trajectory.

There are three problems, I see in this surge in china:

1. Western Style Management is getting reinvented from merely aggregating capabilities such as Standardizing, Pooling and Integrating Talent etc., to Amplifying Human Capabilites, such as taking advantage of amplifying Passion, Talent and Intelligence. Gary Hamel and others call it Management 2.0.

2. As Dan Ariely notes in Predictably Irrational, "Introducing market norms into social exchanges,violates the social norms and hurts the relationships." "...Once you've offered to pay for the delightful Thanksgiving dinner, your mother-in-law will remember the incident for years to come." "...Money it turns out, is very often the most expensive way to motivate people. Social Norms are not only cheaper but more often more effective as well."

Yet in Western Enterprises, it is a prevalent practice to use market norms to motivate. While the West is trying to learn this subtelty, we would be inculcating older practices to the Enterprises in China.

3. Benevolent paternalism, which is virtually non-existent in Western Organizations is intertwined to the cultural fabric of both Society and Business, in the East. Instead of making a move to a rational,impersonal and individualistic mode in the workplace, benevolent paternalism can be harnessed effectively in the workplace.

So, Wait China. ...Until the Western Management Framework, moves from the Industrial Era to the Knowledge Era.

2008-05-03 18:08:54 GMTComments: 0 |Permanent Link

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