Archive for June 16th, 2008

Max Planck: On Change

Written by: Bill Sherman on Monday, 16 June 2008, 3:17 AM

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.” Certainly, Galileo felt pressure from Cardinal Bellarmine and the Inquisition. However, new truths often emerge within the corporate organization. The death of truths are difficult to personally accept. We become enmeshed [...]

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Social Capital and Networks

Written by: Bill Sherman on Monday, 16 June 2008, 3:16 AM

“When you have an opportunity to learn how someone in another group does what you do differently–go.” Burt, Ronald. Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital. New York: Oxford UP 2005. Sometimes you read a gem of a book that gives you an entirely new set of tools to analyze patterns that you’ve instinctively [...]

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Walking Between Worlds

Written by: Bill Sherman on Monday, 16 June 2008, 12:06 AM

“When the mind is employed about a variety of objects it is somehow expanded and enlarged.” –Adam Smith Smith presented the concept of the Pin Factory in his Wealth of Nations. He argued that the division of labor increases productivity. A team of pin-makers, each specialized on a single task could outproduce a single pin-maker. [...]

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