Wirearchy

… when face-to-face or acting in meatspace alone isn’t quite enough.
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Cellphone’s dying ping leads police to woman trapped in SUV for eight daysROD MICKLEBURGHSeptember 28, 2007
 VANCOUVER — It was only a ping from a dead cellphone, but it was enough to secure the miraculous survival of Tanya Rider, after eight days suspended by a seatbelt [...]

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.. except for that last paragraph (below).
Gotta love that good old USian puritanical bent.
In my experience, most kids are pretty smart and if you treat them as such, and as responsible, they’ll as often as not figure things out for themselves.

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It takes a long time for change to happen quickly ..
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(one of my favourite quotes ( attributed to a friend, G. Ross), recalled by listening to Otis Redding and Sam Cooke’s versions of singing "A Change Gonna Come"
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I think "reprise" is actually an anglicized French word … to re-take, or re-grasp.
I’ve posted this YouTube clip because I think it’s so damned funny, and because it also in a strange way fills me with pride that from my Anglo perspective (yet one that is arguably very familiar with Quebecois culture), it exemplifies in [...]

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.. and, according to several friends, "wirearchy".
Within 15 minutes of each other, today I received three emails from friends who are either consultants in organizational change or in management positions pointing me to Gary Hamel’s new book The Future of Management, saying "he’s writing about wirearchy!"
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MT exclusive: Gary Hamel’s ‘The Future of Management’
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I just saw on the screen while watching the CBC News …
I am gobsmackingly amazed.
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USA - Canada border
9,000 kilometres, 972 guards
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USA - Mexico border
3,000 kilometres, 11,670 guards
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UPDATE:

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Discovered via the Headshift blog …
When the Gartner Group starts predicting that the coming generations of knowledge workers will understand how to work in wirearchies, and predicts that their influx will cause 40+ % annual growth in the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities … well, one might say that awareness is growing.
As I have mentioned [...]

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I just spent 10 days in Montreal … some work, some catching up with friends, some exploring and enjoying the streets and atmosphere of the city.
On two of those days I was accompanied by a guy I have come to know over the past three years.

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I found the presence and the words of this man, Evo Morales, inspiring.
I wish more of our leaders used less rhetoric and made it clear that they actually cared about the well-being of the societies and citizens they lead.
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Evo Morales, President of Bolivia interviewed by Jon Stewart

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We live in a both / and world of polarities.
Very thin flat screens hanging on a wall will add dimension to telepresence.
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So, too, will capabilities like SAT’s Panoscope, a 360-degree immersive "screen" that will help visualize information in 3 dimensions.
I’ve been inside it several times.

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