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On occasion I get the opportunity to speak publicly about some of the things I've learned over the years applying the open source way in organizations. In almost every case, when the Q&A session arrives, I'm greeted with at least one question from a
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? I don't know the answer, but I can tell you that brand positioning not effectively communicated and embedded both inside and outside your organization will definitely not make
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Jonathan Rauch wrote in the National Journal Saturday on the “radical decentralization” of the tea party. A “Tea Party Patriots coordinator and co-founder” talks about it this way:“I use the term open-source politics. This is an open source movement.... The movement as a whole is smart.” No
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I've never been much for clubs. When I was young, I made a lousy cub scout. I wasn't a real "joiner" in high school or college either (just enough to get by) and I still don't get actively involved in many professional
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Maybe some day we'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
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Almost exactly two years ago I left Red Hat to start what would become New Kind. I'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
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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
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On Wednesday, September 1, opensource.com will be hosting a webcast with Stefan Lindegaard, one of the world'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
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If you're a designer who thinks design deserves a 'seat at the table' 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
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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
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Daniel Pink published an interesting piece over the weekend in The Telegraph about Netflix's innovative corporate policy of not having a vacation policy. Meaning, employees don't have a set number of days they get off each year, but instead can take vacation whenever they want. From
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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