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B Corporation
B Corporations are a new type of corporation which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. B Corporations are unlike traditional responsible businesses because they:
American Society for Quality - ASQ
ASQ is the world's leading membership organization devoted to quality.
How to Save the World - Break It Down and Build It Up: The Virtue of Making Things Community-Sized
Robert Paterson's Weblog: Natural Organization - The Rules - Part 4 - The Design - How it works
Visions from Two Theories: Overview of social evolution (past, present, and future) in TIMN terms
According to my review of history and theory, four forms of organization — and evidently only four — lie behind the governance and evolution of all societies across the ages: tribal, institutional, market, network.
Unmanaging knowledge - How to tell the boss to back off | Smart People magazine
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- Controlled-Access System: Where access to the resources of a group and its activities are controlled by one or a few select individuals.
- Shared-Access System: Where resources of a group and its activities are impartially dealt with by all members of an organization.
As I’ve suggested in Unleashing Intellectual Capital and in Hidden Assets, organizational ecologies, from my perspective, fall into the following two general categories:
PhilSci Archive - The importance of pairwork in educational and interdisciplinary initiatives
An early and prominent employee of Google, Georges Harik, recently made the assertion that pairs working together in startups are 20 times more productive than individuals working alone. The author has also personally experienced the boost of what is here termed pairwork in a university setting during the startup phase of several educational and interdisciplinary initiatives. The paper briefly explores pairwork in the history of technology and constructs both qualitative and little quantitative models of pairwork. The quantitative model under reasonable assumptions easily recovers Harik’s 20x boost. The paper also briefly examines the author’s recent experiences with pairwork in four interdisciplinary and educational initiatives.
Michael Bérubé - Chávezian Airspace
So the next time someone complains about the constraints imposed by disciplines, ask yourself (or them!) whether they’re not really complaining about the constraints of departments.
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