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		<title>Want to reinvent management? Start with the managers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe some day we&#8217;ll look back on the role of the manager in our organizations and laugh.
Such a quaint trend. Kind of like having The Clapper in every room of your house, or wearing multiple Swatch watches, or working out to Richard Simmons videos. Each seemed really helpful at the time, but looking back, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newkind.com/2010/08/want-to-reinvent-management-start-with-the-managers/</link>
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		<title>Reflections on Matthew Szulik and closing the &#8216;executive gap&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost exactly two years ago I left Red Hat to start what would become New Kind. I&#8217;d been there for four and a half years. It was wonderful and challenging; one of the great adventures of my life.
There are several reasons it was so rewarding:
+ I was working on meaningful work. We were proving that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newkind.com/2010/08/reflections-on-matthew-szulik-and-closing-the-executive-gap/</link>
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		<title>New Public Spaces 2: Practical Design Guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last post, I discussed how governments, especially state and local, should be thinking differently about the ways they engage online with the people they serve.

A quick recap: governments have a relatively indefinite shelf-life; they have powers and likewise responsibilities that come along with being a monopoly; and given people live within and travel across multiple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newkind.com/2010/08/new-public-spaces-2-practical-design-guidelines/</link>
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		<title>Five questions about open innovation with Stefan Lindegaard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, September 1, opensource.com will be hosting a  webcast with  Stefan Lindegaard, one of the world&#8217;s leading experts on  open  innovation.
Sign up for the webcast now
Stefan is author of the recently published book The Open Innovation Revolution, and blogs regularly on 15inno.com and stefanlindegaard.com.
We see a lot of commonalities between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newkind.com/2010/08/five-questions-about-open-innovation-with-stefan-lindegaard/</link>
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		<title>Institutional innovation, Mark Twain and John Seely Brown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a designer who thinks design deserves a &#8217;seat at the table&#8217; you have to love John Seely Brown— a design hero and sherpa for the 21st century.
His book The Power of Pull, co-written with John Hagel III, works off their recurring theme that &#8220;management practices and corporate institutions are fundamentally broken.&#8221; The sub-title—how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newkind.com/2010/08/institutional-innovation-mark-twain-and-john-seely-brown/</link>
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		<title>The official New Kind policy on policies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend and business partner Chris Grams wrote a great blog earlier  this week on whether or not companies should have vacation policies. We  decided long ago at New Kind that we would not have a vacation or sick  leave policy. You need or want time off, take it. We support it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newkind.com/2010/08/the-official-new-kind-policy-on-policies/</link>
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		<title>Does your organization need a &#8220;no policy&#8221; policy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Pink published an interesting piece over the weekend in The Telegraph about Netflix&#8217;s innovative corporate policy of not having a vacation policy.
Meaning,  employees don&#8217;t have a set number of days they get off each year, but  instead can take vacation whenever they want. From the article:
At  Netflix, the vacation policy is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newkind.com/2010/08/does-your-organization-need-a-no-policy-policy/</link>
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		<title>Ignoring the Law of Ownership gives hope for Alzheimers victims. And all of us.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in a world with some big problems. That’s certain enough. I suppose it has always been true and will always be true. We advance. The blessing and curse of being human. We exchange one set of problems for the next. But we do not succumb. We do not sit still. We progress. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newkind.com/2010/08/hope-for-alzheimers-victims-and-all-of-us/</link>
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		<title>Planning ahead for a new breed of &#8220;public&#8221; spaces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think about a public space. Maybe it’s a park, or a public library,  but some physical space owned by government. We have different  expectations about public spaces, and our freedoms in them, compared to  private spaces.
Think about a place where civic happenings go on, where dialogue and  delivery of services occur. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newkind.com/2010/08/planning-ahead-for-a-new-breed-of-public-spaces/</link>
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		<title>The King is dead; long live the king.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend and business partner, Chris Grams, writes that “formality in business is dying.” He isn’t referring to fashion or manners. Chris is referring to formal business practices such as the heavy emphasis on structure: the arranging of elements rather than content.
Amen, brother. And not a moment too soon.
Peter Drucker, the man who invented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newkind.com/2010/08/the-king-is-dead-love-live-the-king/</link>
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