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Reflection is the most painful and effective way to become wise.
I think it’s in this spirit that Jason Markow published an open call to celebrate failure in what he’s been calling #FAILweek. He’s called us to “help others prepare for success by letting them learn from your failure.”
While some who have posted (including Jason himself) have grand, and dare I say sexy, failure stories, mine rests in the solitude of silence…
As one who loves a good debate, and as someone who’s always been sympathetic to the side of traditional education, I decided to interview Cali Harris (@caligater) who recently quit her job to pursue her Masters full-time. She’s the real deal. The video interview and a recap (with my 2 cents thrown in) are below:
Sure, everyone from CNN to Twitter (iTampon was a trending topic for nearly 8 hours), has been poking fun of Apple. Many, including Shereen Meraji of All Tech Considered, are wondering: “maybe there weren’t any women in the room when that got decided.”
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In 2007, Doug Hall suggested that businesses should Fail Fast, Fail Cheap when it comes to innovation. Specifically he showed the business sense of failing quickly and cheaply:
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I happen to disagree, but this not really about disagreement. This is about rethinking our basic understanding of writing.
This is about boiling down the underlying implications of Thorman’s ideas in an effort to hold them, to examine them, to test them.
I’m deeply indebted to Thorman’s post and presentation as the start of this conversation, so first: Thank you Rebecca. And now to our point of departure…
I had the opportunity to guest post over at Srinivas Rao’s personal development blog, The Skool of Life. Stay tuned too, because tomorrow my interview in the “Up and Coming Bloggers Podcast” airs on the same site. But to wet your appetite today, here’s a snippet from my post on The Skool of Life:
Rarely, if ever, do I start a blog post knowing exactly where it will end. Some have told me this is a weakness. I tell them it’s writing.
Image Credit: United Nations Development Programme (uploaded 01/14/2010)
When I peeked into Gretchen Jameson’s office this morning (@gmjameson), the answer became glaringly obvious.
Gretchen expressed how upset she was that many social media and communication through leaders had not turned their attention to the crisis. She wondered how can we go on blubbering about this and that case study, paying little deference to the devastation in Haiti.
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“The future of collaboration is ego-less….The real test comes when you have the opportunity to help someone with the previous knowledge that that person won’t be able to reciprocate. Paradoxically, the only way to do this consistently is to forget about the economic way of thinking.”
In economic terms, there are typically two types of exchange (Lapavistas, 2004):
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Twitter’s recent flatline has some Twitter-crazed marketers scrambling. After all, you spent all that time drafting and creating a Twitter strategy, and now we’re already looking for “next year’s Twitter” (which, incidentally, Pete Cashmore says is Foursquare).This news neither alarms nor frightens me. We all knew this day was coming. Science tells us that exponential growth is unsustainable in cases of population and resource use, so should Twitter really be an exception?
I know it’s unthinkable, but some day we’ll most likely be having the same conversation about a Facebook flat-line.
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I mean, after all, we’re different. We’re the internet babies, we’re uber-connected and we’re ready to reinvent the system of business with blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Staction, and Yammer.
That is of course, if our ideas aren’t first crushed under the weight of 100 years of process-based enterprise thinking. Back in 2008, ZDNet asked if millennials would really reinvent IT. Larry Dignan’s answer:
