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Dr. Norman Lewis (Telco 2.0 Evangelist) @ the Enterprise 2.0 Forum in Varese:

Intro of the speech:
” Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

Summary:
“Young people value and acquire computer expertise primarly in order to achieve practial objectives and in relation to the construction of peer group idea.”

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Source: http://www.shkaminski.com/

The meaning of life, the meaning of love, the meaning of every task is - development… But how …?

“For example, for years people attempting to make rules for the way computer software should be developed preferred something called the “waterfall”: Analysis–>Design–>Coding–>Test

–where each of these on a chart was usually set slightly below the one before, representing a process which cascaded down to the finished product.  In more recent years, software development is understood to be more properly represented as a spiral or iterative process. Each spiral in the series may contain some analysis, some design, some coding and some test; once we have iterated this enough times, we have reached the goal.”

And….
“History itself may be understood as a spiral process. For example, people are constantly trying to map the decline of the Roman empire on to the modern history of the West. Of course, you can do this on a line graph by showing a long decline, a rise and another decline. But it is arguably more useful to regard the Roman empire as a lower spiral in a series.”

(via http://www.spectacle.org/198/future.html)

So let’s “spiral thinking”, instead of complaing about the “negative spiral”. Don’t be afraid to (Water)fall - because if developement isn’t linear, you will be kept in the spiral ;)  - if you let yourself seduce to look at things the other way round…

(via http://jeroendemiranda.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/most-important-from-david-maister/)

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Quelle Wikipedia:

“Dunbar stellte einen Zusammenhang fest zwischen dem Gehirnvolumen von Säugetieren (Anteil des Neocortex am Gesamtcortex) und der maximalen Gruppengröße, in denen diese Säuger jeweils leben. Das Verhältnis dieser beiden Größen wird Dunbar-Nummer (Dunbar’s number) genannt. Für den Menschen liegt diese Zahl bei knapp 150.”

“Dunbar has argued that 150 would be the mean group size only for communities with a very high incentive to remain together. For a group of this size to remain cohesive, Dunbar speculated that as much as 42% of the group’s time would have to be devoted to social grooming. Correspondingly, only groups under intense survival pressure^{[citation needed]}, such as subsistence villages, nomadic tribes, and historical military groupings have, on average, achieved the 150-member mark. Moreover, Dunbar noted that such groups are almost always physically close: “… we might expect the upper limit on group size to depend on the degree of social dispersal. In dispersed societies, individuals will meet less often and will thus be less familiar with each, so group sizes should be smaller in consequence.” Thus, the 150-member group would only occur because of absolute necessity, i.e. due to intense environmental and economic pressures.”

Lesenswerte Artikel “Building a collaborative workplace”

Auszug als Bild, da PDF geschützt….

Def. von “collaboration”

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Nice idea….

10′000 sheep, created by online worker

Die Person hat eine “ausgeprägte Disposition zur Abhängigkeit”, da fühlt man sich doch gerade besser als wenn man einfach als “labil” oder “Suchti” bezeichnet wird ;). Auch die Vorstellung, dass dieses Verdikt in einer allfälligen Arztemappe “zelluloseintensiv” niedergeschrieben wird, d.h. eben einfach nicht elektronisch, sondern ausführlich auf Papier - klingt sehr beeindruckend. Gesetzt der Fall, dass dieses sinnlose Post nicht mit einem Kommentar gewürdigt wird - was ziemlich sicher so sein wird - so weiss ich aber nun: Es gibt auch eine “legitime periphere Teilnahme”. An alle die das nicht glauben: überdenkt euren “mentalen Modelle” oder probiert euch durch eine “paradoxe Intervention” oder durch “Irritation zu stabilisieren”.

Gruss aus dem Schulzimmer