I’m still reflecting on Lee’s (Headshift.com) presentation yesterday.

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Wasting brainpower in large orgs – turning people into idiots
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He captured how large organisations manage work in a way that contradicts how people think. This makes it hard to absorb new patterns and concepts. A brilliant example of that is Web 2.0, and associated concepts;
– simple
– incremental change
– start small
– focus on core, and build out
& tools;
– blogs
– wikis
– tagging
– feeds
– feed aggregation, clipstreams
– social networks

In aggregate each of the above are powerful, but where to start, and how to explain, is not something that can be accomplished in a single presentation, or conversation.

It requires a new approach, and new thinking that is sustained in the organisation.

Banks don’t have this capability, but the good news, is, I’m sensing the need is becoming more evident.