But, adds Graham, “Startup investors are a distinct type of rich people. Even more exciting is to not only look at cities as separate collections of these individual systems, but as  systems of systems. A city, like other highly complex systems, is a lot more than the sum of its parts.  Why is it so difficult?  MORE >>

It’s become cool for Oxbridge types to bellow out their superiority (they always mention repeatedly that they went to Oxford or Cambridge) and to see the state system as largely dysfunctional. They parrot this pathological view of the state system which is clearly an echo of the ‘broken Britain’ Conservative campaign. Really! MORE >>

It is about reconciling that businesses, in their interaction with the world (customer, vendors, regulators) have opened the door to a new way of being in the system that requires more than management. Because systems include that beautiful, irrational, impulsive part of human life – emotion. Uh oh.) It is “in the air.&# MORE >>

Push programs have dominated our lives from our very earliest years.”  “We are literally pushed into educational systems designed to anticipate our needs over twelve or more years of schooling and our key needs for skills over the rest of our lives.  Their research uncovered a number of major, somewhat paradoxical findings.  Not anymore.  MORE >>

IBM executive Sandy Carter has just published a new book - Get Bold: Using Social Media to Create a New Type of Social Business.  The literature points to incentive systems, training and decentralized decision making as some of the practices most complementary to technology.” Let me explain.  So, as Web 2.0 implications. MORE >>