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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
- Here Comes Everybody follows this tradition. For Shirky, this essential excitement comes down to an optimism about the open-ended possibilities of organizational forms made viable by the web.
from Here Went Everybody by Tim Hwang
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- One of the reasons that Here Comes Everybody holds up comparatively well in 2022 against its contemporaries is Shirky’s willingness to recognize how broader social forces might thwart the “inevitable” effects of a technology on society.
from Here Went Everybody by Tim Hwang
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- Everyone wants to be picked, but no one wants to organize the collective ‘we’.
It’s the ‘we’ that creates a school of thought, a movement, a network, a culture.
Curate, connect, organize and lead.Britt Gage and added
- The notion of the “organization man”—a term popularized by William H. Whyte’s seminal 1956 book that describes the subsuming of individual agency in service of a large corporation—is giving way to the rise of “micro-entrepreneurs,” or free agents, creators, freelancers, and independent workers who utilize digital platforms to make a living by lever... See more
from Unbundling Work from Employment by Li Jin
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- First, we get distracted by the inclination to make the group as big as we can imagine. After all, the change is essential, the idea is a good one. It’s for everyone.
Except that’s a trap. Because a group that’s too large cannot be coherent or organized.
Or perhaps, we blink and settle for a group that’s too small. Change requires tension, and if our... See morefrom Small groups, well organized
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On small groups, well organized. An old but new way of building our organizations.
- People might be enthusiastic and capable of some level of self organization but they also require directions and guidance and someone to answer their questions. Most successful crowdsourcing efforts are products of a robust collaboration between the crowd and the individuals guiding them. These people focussed the collective and corrected for some ... See more
from Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
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