Theda Skocpol in her 2003 book Diminished Democracies said that we need to look at the displacement of cross-class membership federations by professionally-managed advocacy. Existing advocacy orgs have high overhead costs. The out-party is more likely to adopt the new technology. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. MORE >>

the cognitive transaction costs) do not impede the collaboration process. Seeback and Kirschner deemphasize this result by mentioning, "But the negatives include lower scores on basic science tests, more study time and a pattern of ordering significantly more unnecessary tests at a much higher cost per patient with less benefit." MORE >>

But yes, to get buy-in you may go the strategy route; but that’s just to get your foot in the door, and it’s also to help the blank faces when they are given tools that aren’t designed to do a specific thing…and what it takes to get adoption (the difference between transactional and interactional). via @johnt. Sales 2.0, Marketing 2.0, MORE >>

There are many around the world who believe we are entering uncharted waters, plunging headlong into an era of rapidly increasing complexity whilst equipped with the tools and mindsets that sometimes worked for societies who were bent on growth at all costs. **. The point of no return was arguably the launch of the iTunes Music Store in 2003. MORE >>

In 1968 Gary Becker said that we could model crime by thinking it of a pay-off model: the benefits of the crime vs. the cost of the penalty. Community policing has been widely adopted because it’s generally successful. Processes: Tyler (2003) showed that procedural justice correlated with internalized compliance. On Oct. MORE >>