Ai. The Pursuit of Flow : The World. The Reality Enigma. The true nature of "reality and the related question of "the meaning" of life, has occupied the thoughts, searching and research of scientists and philosophers for thousands of years.
Whole libraries could be filled with books and research papers. In recent years billions of dollars have been, and continue to be spent on theoretical physics projects, the latest of which is designed in the hope of finding the so called "God Particle". Many questions arise from situation in addition to the big question itself, not the least of which is have all of the participants been looking in the right places? In other words - can the answers actually be discovered through, and by a focus on the material plane of existence known as Earth and the physical Universe? To begin to address this question, look around you now.
What do you see? These objects may seem very "real" to you from your own personal perspective, but are these familiar everyday objects "real" in absolute terms? Is Earth "real"? New Page 1. By definition, change is about modifying the status quo, managing a shift from one state to another. This transfer requires energy. It might be the energy required to climb on the exercise bike; that burst of energy to read the latest management book; or the physical and emotional energy required to run yet another quality workshop. Alternatively, it is the energy required to stop something or someone from taking action when they want to be a change inhibitor. Just think how often you work with an organization where people spend more time stopping action from happening rather than making a change work. When thinking about the idea of energy, you need to have a clear appreciation of where it will come from, and how it might affect the change. The energy that people put into organizations is absorbed in a number of ways.
When understanding how this energy can affect a change, you might map three aspects: The year of the shift to Enterprise 2.0. Traditional collaboration tools can create powerful, local information flows but little build-up of value over time.The latest data emerging on how enterprises are using Web 2.0 tools in the workplace this year is painting a picture of a sea change in the way those businesses conduct collaboration and communication amongst their workers, and to a lesser extent the rest of the world.
Intriguing new just-released reports now show that between a third and one half of businesses either already are or will be employing so-called Enterprise 2.0 tools in the workplace (blogs, wikis, and social networking/messaging) in 2009. The data also show that security concerns remain high, access is actually fairly low, compliance with mainstream enterprise data practices is poor, and some workers aren't planning to get anywhere near them.
The bottom line: The tools have arrived. How enterprise knowledge and is created and flows within our organizations is beginning to change dramatically. 10 Proposals for Fixing the E-Mail Glut - Bits Blog - NYTimes.co. In this always-connected digital world, most of us suffer from some level of communication overload.
Just thinking about my cluttered and unorganized e-mail in-box gives me a deep sense of anxiety. There are some solutions out there. Suw Charman-Anderson, a social technologist with The Guardian, believes you should check your e-mail twice a day. Then there’s Merlin Mann’s infamous Inbox Zero, an approach that challenges you to deal with every message until your in-box is empty. Somehow I’m always 150 messages away from the end of that e-mail rainbow. Personally, I don’t believe there is one panacea for in-box obesity. 1. Some messages just don’t need a comprehensive reply. 2. 3. I regularly send messages to introduce friends or co-workers to each other. 4. 5.
Ah, the reply-to-all e-mail faux pas: You’re invited to an event via a large group e-mail and one person responds to everyone with a pointless “Great, I’ll be there!” 6. "Propel Frontline Leaders" the Facilitator's Work.