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Decision-making. eSchool News. Capacity Development Resource Center - Leadership Capacity Devel. WiserEarth:% 20Connecting You to Communities of Action. The Great Story Website created by Connie Barlow. Think For A Change, LLC. Change. And Why Change Is A Marketing Tool It’s not difficult to understand, in this economic environment, why the word change looms so large in professional services dialogue. The nature of the professions, rooted as they are in history and tradition, can be fairly rigid, and resistant to innovation. But the times seem to have accelerated the need for new ideas and structures to cope with new economic and social problems and opportunities.

The accounting profession, even as we know it today, is practically pre-historic, and is now so bound by rules and regulations and laws that any suggestion of serious structural change is seen as a virtual assault on the profession. Still, some things in the professions are different now than they were about a decade ago. The accounting profession, recognizing the growth of globalization, is now seriously considering international accounting standards. These things didn’t happen by accident, nor by just an inspiration by a few bright lawyers or accountants.

When online communities go to work. While debate still occurs about whether consumer social networking is an effective model for how we should run our organizations in the future, one under-appreciated online phenomenon has been quietly and steadily remaking the very notion of business itself. People have been joining online communities by the millions for years now for a variety reasons, including both business and pleasure.

These increasingly massive and mainstream communities focus on virtually every subject imaginable including news (Slashdot & Digg), open source source (Sourceforge), photography (Flickr), enterprise software (SAP), business innovation (Innocentive), travel (TripAdvisor), retail products (IKEAFans, Best Buy Community), consumer electronics support (Fixya), Web design (Crowdspring), charity (Feed A Child With A Click), and countless others. As an indicator of size, the charity in the previous list is one of the largest groups on Facebook, with nearly 6 million members. Luc’s Thoughts on Organizational Change » Peter Senge.

The Education Revolution (Part 12): Peter Senge on the Future of Education Here is an inspiring video of Peter Senge underscoring the purpose of education. The Education Revolution (Part 8): Social Learning Now that social networks are here to change the way we do business, we might as well have a look at how they enable us to learn better. Today, Harold Jarche published an excellent whitepaper on this subject and it includes a lot of organizational truthtelling. Mindset, Membership and the Matthew Effect I have grown up with the firm belief that in order to achieve something in life you need to have a degree. The Education Revolution (Part 1): Sir Ken Robinson In this poignant, funny follow-up to his 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning. Love & Work (Part 2) – The Meaning of Life Love and work bring meaning to life. What about Chris Argyris?

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Recommend Resources: About Recommendations The Global Association for Systems Thinking® is seeking recommendations to build and expand our Resource Portal. Kurt Lewin three step change theory model » RapidBI-Mgt, Leaders. Introduction The Kurt Lewin change theory model is based around a 3-step process (Unfreeze-Change-Freeze) that provides a high-level approach to change. It gives a manager or other change agent a framework to implement a change effort, which is always very sensitive and must be made as seamless as possible. The Kurt Lewin model can help a leader do the following three steps: Make a radical changeMinimize the disruption of the structure’s operationsMake sure that the change is adopted permanently Summary of Kurt Lewin’s Change theory This three step model gives a manager or change agent an idea of what implementing change means when dealing with people.

The 3 phases of the Kurt Lewin model provide guidance on how to go about getting people to change: a manager will implement new processes and re-assign tasks, but change will only be effective if the people involved embrace it and help putting it into practice it. Lewin change model – Unfreeze – “ready to change” In 1947 Lewin wrote: Act by Right [Act by Right Online] Home | Transforming Capitalism 2.0 → 3.0. Signet Research & Consulting home page. 10 Rules for Increasing Community Engagement. Getting people to interact with others and upload content to a community-driven site enough may sound easy, but engagement doesn’t happen automatically. It takes time and work, and much of the right formula is deduced through trial and error. Here are 10 tips for increasing user engagement that work for news community web sites, but can apply to all types of online user-engagement communities. 1.

Make It Easy to Participate This sounds like a no-brainer. If it is not clear that people can do things on a site, they won’t. “I’ve gotten feedback from people who didn’t quite know how to participate and if it seems to be a problem for many, we reevaluate how we’re displaying the message. Each week CNN’s iReport.com posts at least one new topic to its Assignment Desk page for people to respond to by submitting photos, video or audio. iReport.com has more than 412,000 registered users who have signed up and contributed content, according to CNN. That strategy has paid off. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Matrix of Change. Changing Connections. P2P And The Social Cloud - The Emergence Of Peer Economic System. Social networking services available on the web are based upon proprietary software which have the ultimate purpose of advertisement-driven profit which implicitly demands tracking user activities.

On the other hand, in order to allow people's collective intelligence to fully develop by means of their self-organized social networks, communication in social networking software must be independent of intrinsic intermediaries, free of external influence. Photo credit: Dzmitry Stankevich In order to overcome these limitations, it is desirable to develop free and open source information technology tools that encourage large scale, dynamic social interactions and stimulates popular collective intelligence.

This open approach has the potential to facilitate the emergence of peer economic systems. The basic idea is very similar to P2P file sharing, but in addition to files, people will also exchange ideas, products, and services in the physical world. by Rafael Pezzi Limited Resources Peer Economy. Jim Rohn International.