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@spatially Thanks for the FF. Much appreciated. Enjoy the rueben.
@spatially LOL. Inspired post today! About time someone not only admitted they're not worthy but explained why.
Superb customer treatment by @mikesbikes Berkeley. Handwritten note to thank me for my business. No sale pushed. Just a thank you. Great!
Video: Symbian Executive Rips into Google’s Android - http://gigaom.com/2009...
@piplzchoice Was this anonymity poll for real or were you hacked? Inexplicably you included some old amazon iPod classic link from digg
The quirky world of "manspaces": Sam Martin on TED.com - http://blog.ted.com/2009...
The Path Dependence of Startups Part 2: Sugarscape - http://coconutheadsets.com/2009...
"Only the path they each randomly took determined where they ended up. This doesn’t mean genes don’t matter, or birth place doesn’t matter… it just means that random choices have just as much to do with guiding our fate as our skills and work ethic." - Matsis
RT @tomforemski: Spammers appear to have hijacked lots of Twitter accounts today - I'm getting a lot ifortune4u.com messages...<<<--me too!
Managing with the Brain in Mind - http://www.strategy-business.com/article...
Managing with the Brain in Mind
"Although a job is often regarded as a purely economic transaction, in which people exchange their labor for financial compensation, the brain experiences the workplace first and foremost as a social system. Like the experiment participants whose avatars were left out of the game, people who feel betrayed or unrecognized at work — for example, when they are reprimanded, given an assignment that seems unworthy, or told to take a pay cut — experience it as a neural impulse, as powerful and painful as a blow to the head. Most people who work in companies learn to rationalize or temper their reactions; they “suck it up,” as the common parlance puts it. But they also limit their commitment and engagement. They become purely transactional employees, reluctant to give more of themselves to the company, because the social context stands in their way. Leaders who understand this dynamic can more effectively engage their employees’ best talents, support collaborative teams, and create an... more... - Matsis from Bookmarklet
Capital Ideas: Selected Papers on Organizations & Markets - October 2009 - Neighbor Networks - http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capidea...
"Although Burt found a strong correlation between the performance of managers and their affiliation with well-connected colleagues, the relationship disappears when the manager’s own network is held constant. That is, if two people have well-connected friends, then the person who is herself well-connected performs well and the person who does not have her own network of valuable contacts does not do well. Well-connected people have their own interests and need not associate with those who contribute nothing to the relationship and only seek to use them. What really matters for performance is a person’s own network and not that of her friends." - Matsis from Bookmarklet
"Over time, the tacit knowledge that is meaningful to insiders becomes more complex, making knowledge more difficult to move to other groups. Information becomes “sticky,” such that holes tear open in the flow of information between groups. These holes in the social structure of communication are what are known as “structural holes.”" - Matsis
"However, if there is no benefit at all to having well-connected friends—as the new evidence shows—then it no longer makes sense to say that access to information is the basis for network advantage." - Matsis
“It is not being in the know, but rather having to translate between different groups so that you develop gifts of analogy, metaphor, and communicating between people who have difficulty communicating to each other,” says Burt. - Matsis
Listening to "Is Doman Expertise Critical to be a successful #prodmgmt?" - Rymatech - #PMV Webinars http://grandview.rymatech.com/pmv...
Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com - good news for us all! - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com - good news for us all!
"How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect" - Matsis from Bookmarklet
AFP: Troubled Belgian cyclist Vandenbroucke dead at 34 - http://www.google.com/hostedn...
AFP: Troubled Belgian cyclist Vandenbroucke dead at 34
So sad. - Matsis from Bookmarklet
Interactive Network Map of Lobbying Patterns Around Key Senators in Health Care Reform - http://orgnet.com/lobbyin...
Pretty cool. I'm sure it's also useful somehow. - Matsis from Bookmarklet
World Leaders React to Obama's Nobel Prize [Funny stuff - Related: golf voted into Olympic games] - http://www.time.com/time...
"World Reaction to Obama Winning the Nobel" - Matsis from Bookmarklet
Online ads: Big Brother or customer service? | Technology | Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article...
Online ads: Big Brother or customer service? | Technology | Reuters
We want custom service without the memory. Maybe we're confused or maybe the question isn't asked correctly. - Matsis from Bookmarklet
"British Sports psychiatrist Steve Peters has this theory about our "inner chimp." The chimp being those impulsive thoughts, emotions and actions that undercut what we are trying to, or meant to, do with our lives." - Matsis
Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype
"Google’s Wave will crash hard onto the beach of overhype." - Matsis from Bookmarklet
@jeffnolan re:tweetie - look in preferences | advanced | repost syntax
McAfee: Three Critical Shifts required for E2.0 | The AppGap - http://www.theappgap.com/mcafee-...
"3. The mindset change from “hoarding information is the way to get ahead” to “sharing is the way to get ahead” The way to achieve #3 has been, if not the holy grail of KM, then its persistent bane. And how will we get to this shift? Put the knowledge sharing in the flow, McAfee says. That should sound familiar to KM types as mantra #4: build it into the business processes. What’s different this time, is that the tools really are becoming so pervasive, easy to use, and just plain sensible, that we really might get there." - Matsis from Bookmarklet
Finding Better Friends: Delicious and SPEAR - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
"Between self-aggrandizing FriendFeeds, bottom-feeding link baiters, and perpetual Twitter spammers, finding cool online friends can be challenging. Michael G. Noll and Ching-man Au Yeung created the SPEAR (SPamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking) algorithm in the hopes of separating the social media wheat from the chaff. This morning the two postgraduate students offered their findings to Delicious in a blog post. " - Matsis
Unfortunately, I have no idea if there's any way to make use of this algorithm anywhere. - Matsis
Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix) by Alabama 3 - http://www.pandora.com/music...
Alabama 3 – The Sopranos (Soundtrack)
After Twitter, Comes Grunter, Then Grimacer - http://www.ritholtz.com/blog...
"Perhaps this is just the first step. The text based Twitter will be replaced with an audio based “Grunter.” Rather than spend a full 140 characters, you have your choice of 10 gutteral grunts registering surprise, anger, sadness, joy, etc. Then we can move to the next phase: Grimacer. Just pictures depicting how you feel." - Matsis
It's a bit ironic that you 'liked' this Nathaniel. I guess you're already using grimacer! - Matsis
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