Skipping the curve
Most people at some point question what they’re doing… where their life is going… whether they’ve achieved enough or made the correct choices. Whether they should be playing this game... Read The Rest →
View ArticleMore on Punk Capitalism
Someone asked me yesterday what exactly Punk Capitalism means… Punk was all about a DIY revolution, rejecting authority and hierarchy, working for yourself without taking cues from the mass market,......
View ArticleAre you a Fraggle or a Doozer?
Unlike Fraggles, Doozers love to work all day long; and they hate playing games. With the help of various Doozer machines and vehicles, they build elaborate constructions all over Fraggle... Read The...
View ArticleThe most effective form of distribution
It was a sad day when the Pirate Bay guys – Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde – were been banged up and ordered to pay... Read The Rest →
View ArticleIt’s happening (scrmblr style)…
Seth Godin’s recent post here hit the nail on the head. He says ‘TV advertisers are finally discovering that YouTube + viral imagination = free media… The biggest shift is... Read The Rest →
View ArticleManagement is so last century
As David Weinberger said in The Cluetrain Manifesto, ‘Management is a powerful force, part of a larger life-scheme that promises us health, prosperity, calm and no surprises in every aspect... Read The...
View ArticleCompanies Vs. Tribes
Let’s compare for a moment. You can compare in terms of pretty much anything: efficiency, effectiveness, happiness… Some brief examples: Communications C: Spread from the top down T: Spread from......
View ArticleScrmblr
I haven’t blogged in any great depth about Scrmblr (‘scrambler’), so thought it was about time. Scrmblr is a global network of content producers (Scrmblrs) who create anti-ads (Scrmbls). Marketing......
View ArticleBig lumpy clumpy balls of crap
Leading on from the previous post about the coolness of chaos… Have you ever had to deal with a big lumpy piece of complex old software that was written... Read The Rest →
View ArticleDirty meaning factories
People live, then they die. Get over it. We all die and life is short. This is the fundamental fact of life that causes us to seek meaning… to crave... Read The Rest →
View ArticleDisappearing up your digital ass
Thanks to my fab friend Steve Moore, I sneaked into the Reboot Britain conference last week. To cut a long story short, the premise was along the lines of ‘we’re... Read The Rest →
View ArticleCollaboration and democracy
The shift towards long-distance collaboration in the design and production of goods and services is helping shape the future of democracy. Some corporations recognise that old hierarchies aren’t...
View ArticleHumanity 2.0 on slideshare homepage
Nice one slideshare! “Hey ResonanceBlog! Your presentation Complexity & Humanity 2.0 has been selected amongst the ‘Top Presentations of the Day’ on the SlideShare homepage. Our editorial team...
View ArticleBrookside, postboxes & SaaS development
Loads of illuminating analogies have emerged in conversations with Andrew Missingham, but today there’s one in particular that popped up… You may remember when the soap Brookside launched on Channel......
View ArticleNo straight lines of possibility?
Alan Moore’s recent post is worth a read: In his article for The Observer – Tony Judt writes, Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For 30... Read The Rest →
View ArticleYour agile self
The word ‘agility’ is being bandied about a lot lately. Agile development processes are the norm in tech companies now – favoured over the old school linear (waterfall) method, for... Read The Rest →
View ArticleMarkets are conversations… so what? Part II
Following my last post a few folk asked me to expand on how to enable two-way comms. To cut a long story short, if you’re a big company with loads... Read The Rest →
View ArticleHeaven for mavericks
Ricardo Semler took over his Dad’s Brazilian business, Semco, in the 80s. Semco now employs over 3,000 people in manufacturing, professional services and high-tech. They increased their annual revenues...
View ArticleInnovation killers
There are two types of company out there: companies who encourage their mavericks and companies who constrict them until they’re forced out (after months, often years, of long-drawn-out subpar...
View ArticleThe quest for autonomy
Autonomy comes from the Greek word autonomos, meaning (auto) ‘self’ (nomos) ‘law’. It refers to ‘the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision’ [Wikipedia]. For some......
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