The Next 40 Years

This is the sort of post that generally makes me laugh out loud. No one can predict anything like 40 years out. I myself routinely mock anyone who tries to do such a thing. However… Tweet

A Refuge for Others

Cultural Differences As an expatriate American there are many cultural differences I have come across where I now live in Chiang Mai, Thailand. One is the buddhist concept of being a refuge for others. The ability to provide for other people, to feed and shelter them and to take care of their needs is important [...]

January 8, 2010 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Consulting, Culture • No Comments

5 Archetypes of Organizational Culture

According to Freire (2007) (video) there are Five Archetypes of Organizational Culture. Naturally, these cultures are based on, developed and perpetuated by leadership. Leaders Send Messages How do you as a leader do things Distance between walk and talk What you do says what is important, role meeting How do you run meetings, how much [...]

August 5, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Organizations • No Comments

Open Licensing

This post is ahead of the final voting tally of the Mediawiki Foundation to add CC-BY-SA licensing to the Free-Doc FDL license on Wikipedia and other wiki properties. This proposed change to dual licensing, and the ability to leverage FDL licensed content into a CC-BY-SA license seems eminently reasonable. In the spirit of this, I [...]

May 11, 2009 • Tags: , , , , , • Posted in: Legal • No Comments

Motivation and the Six "F"s – Organizational Culture

Preamble The Six Fs do not appear to have been written by their author, Adam Bosworth. There are at least two blog mentions by Roger Weber and Brian Acker. Introduction The six Fs are fame, family, force, fortune, freedom and fun. The notion is that an organization should pick two of these as the priority [...]