The unpopularity of top-down management is old news by now. Yet how, exactly, does one create an openly collaborative organization? One that’s based on the power of peer relationships? One that can thrive?
The best Peer2Peer groups are efficient, adaptive and resilient resource-maximizers. That’s why they include “good” and “bad” groups. They are exceedingly good [...]
From the Slobberknockering changes in pro wrestling to the appearance of Cartoon Network clips on YouTube “entertainment” is changing. Some fans are becoming co-creators. New kinds of businesses and individuals are now distributers. What role would you like to play?
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After eating at some of the most elegant and far out restaurants in Las Vegas, Kaapstad, Dubai and San Francisco it must have been a startling change of pace to dine in my kitchen in Sausalito. But, it seems, neither time zones nor giggly culinary ineptitude (mine) fazed the unflappable Dutch TV chef, Rudolph [...]
As a business owner, especially if your business is small, wouldn’t these words be sweet music to your ears? Along with submitting a bid for a large project, a respected vendor told Robert Middleton, “We are willing to do your project for free if you introduce our services to the people on [...]
Paulette Ensign is a born organizer. In fact she was once the national president of the National Association of Professional Organizers.
Her life changed forever back in 1991.
She reviewed the tips she’d been giving others over the years and turned them into two little booklets. One’s called “110 Ideas For Organizing Your Business Life.” The [...]
Forty days after his fiancée disappears she is found, “badly injured on a mountain road near an abandoned amusement park where her younger brother died.” When she asks him to return a sealed envelope to someone at the park he enters a world where the rides “mystically comes to life.”
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Meet people who share your interests and you’re bound to become friends with some. Want to meet other Shih Tzus owners? Find a fellow hiker, skier, cyclist, kayaker or climber? Get a pick-up basketball game wherever you are? Start a team? Eat raw food?
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