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"But just because something is possible doesn’t make it reasonable, or smart, or sustainable. It also may have a hidden or long-term cost that is actually more negative than any benefit that will accrue from doing the requested task. It also, by the way, sets a bad expectation and precedent."

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"When we interact with web and intranet teams, we find many struggling to move beyond conceptual-level discussions on information organization. Hours on end are spent on discussing the meaning of "metadata", "controlled vocabulary" and "taxonomy" without any strategic understanding of how everything fits together. Being so bogged down at this level they fail to look beyond to the main reason for their pursuit—organizing information for others (the end users) so that they can find the information easily."

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"Consider, to give a more general example, e-mail. There are no shortage of strong arguments that living your day in your inbox prevents long, uninterrupted thought, which in turn greatly reduces the value of what you produce and the rate at which your skills improve.

Nicholas Carr almost won a Pulitzer last year for his book on this phenomenon, The Shallows, which was based on his earlier Atlantic article, titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”.

So why hasn’t there been any major changes to how American organizations use e-mail? The convenience principle stops them.

If you subscribe to this principle, all it takes to argue back against a critic like Carr is a list of examples where restricting e-mail in any way would lead to inconvenience."

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"In other words, the issue is not one of “markets vs. state” - “free” markets vs. “sand in the wheel” transactions taxes. It is: how can banks be better organized? And not just banks. The issue of NHS or schools reform poses the same questions.

In this sense, the traditional statist left and free market right are both wrong."

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COMPASS is dedicated to helping ocean scientists connect themselves and their science to the wider world. By giving scientists the communication tools they need, and by bridging the worlds of science, journalism and policy, COMPASS works to ensure that ocean science is better understood and used by society.

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"When you allow an institution to provide you with your identity and sense of self-worth you become an obsequious pawn, no matter how much talent you possess. You live in perpetual fear of what those in authority think of you and might do to you. This mechanism of internalized control—for you always need them more than they need you—is effective. "

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"Because most socialization/assimilation research focuses on employment as the primary membership role in groups and organizations, the accompanying models have failed to consider the unique characteristics of voluntary membership. In addition, those models have been criticized for being too linear and based on concepts of organizations as containers. Using principles of the bona fide group perspective and a case study, this paper develops a model that emphasizes the unique characteristics of the socialization of voluntary members. The multilevel model also examines how membership in various other groups, such as work and family, influence and interact with individuals' voluntary memberships. With a focus on communication, the model emphasizes the fluid process of voluntary associations in organizations with ambiguous boundaries. "

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"Given that high-intensity telecommuters report feeling socially isolated, this study uses structuration and constructivist theories to examine the role of coworker relationships and informal communication in the context of high-intensity telecommuting."

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"Claus Rerup is an associate professor of Organizational Behavior at Ivey. He earned his Ph.D. from the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark in 2001. He joined Ivey in 2003 after completing his Post Doctoral studies at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Claus’ research addresses how multi-level processes such as routines, sensemaking and patterns of heightened attention influence organizational learning and high reliability. In particular, his work explores how coordination, politics, and heterogeneous information influence the ways in which employees and managers collectively learn from (rare) events. In most cases firms learn from an accident or crisis after the fact, but many organizations can also learn valuable lessons from a near disaster. Unexpected crises are often preceded by weak signals and near disasters, which suggest that organizational crises and accidents may be preventable provided the right systems and skills are in place for attending to such signals and events. "

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"This paper develops the concepts and methods of a process we will call ldquoalignment of computational modelsrdquo or ldquodockingrdquo for short. Alignment is needed to determine whether two models can produce the same results, which in turn is the basis for critical experiments and for tests of whether one model can subsume another. We illustrate our concepts and methods using as a target a model of cultural transmission built by Axelrod. For comparison we use the Sugarscape model developed by Epstein and Axtell."

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"This is the official website for ISKO – the premier international scholarly society devoted to the theory and practice of knowledge organization."

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"But for all its radicalism, WikiLeaks ultimately rests on the same economic assumption as the media: that information is valuable. Assange's bottom line may not be so directly tied to that value as the Guardian's, but it is tied to his exclusivity, or at least notoriety, as a spiller of secrets."

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