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Reviewing books since 2003.

Friday, April 05, 2013

Topsight > Getting to topsight in your organization

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Earlier this week I wrote a guest column on topsight for Life and Letters , a magazine published by UT's College of Liberal Arts. In pa...
Thursday, April 04, 2013

Topsight > How Fredrik is using Topsight

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We're wrapping up our discussion of Topsight  on Inkwell , and Fredrik Matheson was kind enough to discuss how his team is using Topsigh...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Topsight > Upcoming seminars in Austin

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I've been excited about opportunities to discuss my new book Topsight , which describes how to get a big-picture view of an organization...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

(the social layers)

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Recently I argued that college students are learning and writing in a mind-boggling range of genres , including electronic genres, and that ...
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Reading :: The Invention of Primitive Society

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The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion By Adam Kuper "This book is a history of the ways in which anthro...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Reading :: What Kinship is—and is Not

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What Kinship Is—And Is Not By Marshall Sahlins Recently I asked an anthropologist friend for some recommendations on anthropology reading...

Reading :: Collaboration

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Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results By Morten Hansen Collaboration is a business book b...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Topsight > Discussing Topsight on The WELL

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Jon Lebkowsky has been kind enough to set up an author's discussion of my book  Topsight  on The WELL.  It's a chance for people to...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Topsight > Topsight and lifehacking

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Financial Times has just posted an article on lifehacking for which I was interviewed. Take a look. Long story short, I discuss how I see ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Cynefin and TIMN and I-space and CVF and ...

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I've been elbow-deep in examining different frameworks for understanding organizations, including TIMN , CVF , I-Space , and Cynefin. To...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

CCCC 2013 presentation

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Here's my presentation for CCCC 2013, describing how I used social media to supplement more traditional qualitative research data in two...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Reading :: The Evolution of Political Society

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The Evolution of Political Society: An Essay in Political Anthropology By Morton H. Fried In this 1967 book, Morton Fried examines what was...

Reading :: The Notion of Tribe

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The notion of tribe By Morton H. Fried This text was published in 1975 (with a groovy 1975 cover, I should add). It's a slim text, bu...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Topsight > Discussing Topsight with Gregory Zobel

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This Thursday, March 14 at about 3pm Mountain Time, Greg Zobel will be interviewing me about Topsight . You can watch us live on UStream. Be...
Monday, March 04, 2013

(writers love txt)

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Every once in a while, I have a conversation that goes something like this: Acquaintance : So you've been teaching college students fo...
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(mobility beyond the laptop)

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So I'll be appearing in Las Vegas next week  at the CCCC conference. The most notable thing about the trip is that, for the first time i...
Friday, March 01, 2013

Network > Implications for workers

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I ran into a discussion on Twitter yesterday about lean education. At one point, Fredrik Matheson tells his interlocutors that my book Netw...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Reading :: Korea as a Knowledge Economy

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Korea As a Knowledge Economy: Evolutionary Process and Lessons Learned By Joonghae Suh and Derek H. C. Chen This book, published by the K...

Reading :: Crisis and Change

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Crisis and Change: South Korea in a Post-1997 New Era By Jasper Kim A few days ago, I reviewed Steinberg's The Republic of Korea , wh...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Reading :: The Republic of Korea

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The Republic of Korea: Economic Transformation and Social Change By David I. Steinberg Writing in 1989, David Steinberg describes the hist...
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