Tony Hirst shared a new initiative via OU UK: UK universities embrace the free, open, online future of higher education powered by The Open University. From a Times HE release : Futurelearn will carry courses from 12 UK institutions (see list), which will be available to students across the world free of charge. Why give not develop your own? MORE >>

It is increasingly evident that as we unpack how we get the best results from thinking, we don’t do it alone. Moreover, the elements that contribute emphasize diversity. Two synergistic events highlight this. First, my colleague Harold Jarche has an interesting post riffing off of Stephen Johnson’s new book, Future Perfect. MORE >>

Those of us who are not-so-secretly hoping that Stephen Colbert might actually run for Senate should take a look at Beppe Grillo ‘s career in Italy. In October, it led the voting in Sicily. Now the Five Star Movement is holding an online vote to choose which candidates to support. There are certainly skeptics. MORE >>

Peter Evans-Greenwood has had some good articles lately. This is from his latest,  is your organisation irrelevant? However, the environment we operate in today is a lot more fluid than the environment of the past, the environment where the vast bulk of our current organisational theory was formulated. This is how organizations can remain relevant. MORE >>

All these living things have been declared dead… Anonymous travel. Apple (in 2005). Blogging  (by  Francine Hardaway herself , no less). Common courtesy. Driving. Google  (in 2006). Google+. Internal medicine. Journalism  (in BuzzFeed, next to “The 30 Most Important Cats of 2012″). Marketing. Microsoft  ( Paul Graham , in 2007). MORE >>