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Talent Development in a Community of Practice [JMO]

Inspired by my client work (including my work with flat organizations/not-for-profits from the 1990's) and by my learning strategy and OD work with the DFA student leaders, I've been sketching,...

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Check Out: material change: design thinking and social entrepreneurship

via designboom.com many of us now look at the clothes we wear and wonder about the conditions at the factory where they were made:  did children stitch our shirts and pants? were the workers...

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Studying Patterns and Using Fieldwork To Improve Healthcare and Save Costs

via newyorker.com Another brilliant article by Atul Gawande on the fieldwork done by physician, Jeffrey Brenner, on improving health care and descreasing costs in Camden, New Jersey.  Just like any...

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Ideas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries’ Radical New Theory

Photo: Robyn Twomey Everything you know about starting a company is wrong. At least that’s what Eric Ries says. The former entrepreneur has developed a counterintuitive strategy he calls the Lean...

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Culture VS. Structure: Hewitt [JMO writes]

Replacing the Organizational Chart with a Strong Culture: Hewitt in the 90's From 1994 to 2000, I was a Hewitt associate.  The original Hewitt (privately-owned, smaller) is no more having since gone...

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