I live by my wits in Ottawa Canada. My interests include complexity and emergence, innovation, entrepreneurship, philosophy and "living life as an applied thought experiment."
You can learn more about me by visiting:
www.stephenfanjoy.com
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I use this site primarily as a sort of unconstrained microbog, to easily capture content I find interesting and would like to share.
1. Groups can arise from almost nothing
2. Initiation rites improve group evaluations
3. Groups breed conformity
4. Learn the ropes or be ostracised
5. You become your job
6. Leaders gain trust by conforming
7. Groups can improve performance...
8. ...but people will loaf
9. The grapevine is 80% accurate
10. Groups breed competition
Read more at spring.org.uk
Fred Wilson's thoughts on "freemium and freeconomics" http://bit.ly/pvOTk
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Informative Slashdot discussion on the sophistication & methods of
industry lobby campaigns http://tr.im/qXoQ See also http://tr.im/qXqt
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A New MBA's View: The Sorry World We're Entering; Umaimah Mendhro's call to question our basic business values (via Forbes) http://tinyurl.com/lff4or
See also this article in the Economist: Forswearing greed - MBA oath to do no harm http://tinyurl.com/nprx8n
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger's thoughtful article on the power's blind conceit (financial crisis and more) http://tinyurl.com/pookwv
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If you read Manufacturing Consent, your view of traditional media may never be the same. http://tinyurl.com/pwwdh
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Great animation by Jonathan Jarvis that explains the credit crisis so anyone can understand:
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