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Comparing leadership cultures and creating change

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 27, 2010

Yesterday I attended a panel on cultural leadership at the Coach K Leadership Conference at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. The panel featured our own Senior VP of People and Brand at Red Hat, DeLisa Alexander, and Mark Reuss, President of General Motors North America.

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Inside the culture of Wikipedia: Q&A with the author of “Good Faith Collaboration”

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 1, 2010

Wikipedia is among the world’s most widely recognized examples of mass collaboration. Most people also know Wikipedia is open for anyone to contribute. But what does open mean? What are the rules? Who writes them? And how do they solve inevitable disputes over content?

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Giving creative projects a community kickstart

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 10, 2010

The project was called Kind of Bloop. An 8-bit tribute to the Miles Davis masterpiece “Kind of Blue”. Yes, the same sound you remember from first-generation Nintendo games. Re-imagining “Kind of Blue” was an idea Andy Baio always dreamed about. Baio is a journalist, programmer, and also the CTO of Kickstarter, a funding platform for [...]

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Change By Design–How to put design thinking to work

4 Comments Posted by on November 17, 2009

Design is too powerful to be used by designers alone. This is the essential idea behind the theory of design thinking–applying the principles and techniques of design to help organizations innovate, solve problems, and create positive change. Tim Brown, CEO and President of IDEO, should know. His new book, Change By Design, is about how [...]

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Reflections on the Coach K Leadership Conference

2 Comments Posted by on October 22, 2009

This week I had the pleasure of attending the Coach K Leadership Conference at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. The theme of the conference was leading in times of uncertainty. I won’t try to summarize points from all of the presenters–mostly because that’s already been done, and done well: Just go to the Twitter stream [...]

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Where design thinking and open source community collaboration meet

2 Comments Posted by on October 16, 2009

I’m currently reading the new book on design thinking from IDEO’s Tim Brown called Change By Design. (Full review coming soon.) The design thinking philosophy was first introduced to me, and to Red Hat throughout the company, by David Burney. In comparing traits associated with design thinking collaboration and collaboration in the open source community, [...]

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