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dismantling institutions they could produce communities: face-to-face relations of trust and solidarity, relations constantly negotiated and renewed, a communal realm in which people became sensitive to one another's needs.
Richard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
Le grand récit de l’émancipation individuelle nous a apporté ce que certains ont appelé le « grand désencastrement ». Si autrefois la plupart des gens étaient imbriqués dans des communautés serrées prescrivant des normes sociales parfois étouffantes, ils en sont à présent affranchis. S’ils servaient dans des institutions hiérarchisées, ils peinent
... See moreAnatole Muchnik • La deuxième montagne : Si la réussite n'était pas là où vous le pensiez ? (French Edition)
Top-down leadership tries to promote uniformity through the commonality of policies, procedures, routines, and regulations. When everyone adheres to the same standards,¶¶ and those standards are imposed and monitored by a central authority, there’s limited discretion to act locally. In certain situations, this is done in order to minimize variance
... See moreSteven Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification
Surowiecki’s argument is that we need dissenting voices, people who challenge the conventional wisdom, resist the fashionable consensus, and disturb the intellectual peace. “Follow the person in front of you” is as dangerous to humans as it is to army ants.
Jonathan Sacks • Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 8)
Many industries have become battlefields because the transition to the Entrepreneurial Age has pitted licensed professionals against startups allied with the multitude and harnessing the power of amateurs workers. But professionals shouldn’t be waging a war against such a coalition[427]. Winning it would come with too high a cost for society in the
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Rousseau in his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754), that it might in fact be the savage and not – as everyone had grown used to thinking – the modern worker who was the better off of the pair?
Alain de Botton • Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)
We are losing the skills of cooperation needed to make a complex society work. — Richard Sennett, Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
The anthropologist Tim Ingold has a theory that humans live, and give their lives meaning, by making lines.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
Third, nurture human nature. At the heart of twentieth-century economics stands the portrait of rational economic man: he has told us that we are self-interested, isolated, calculating, fixed in taste, and dominant over nature – and his portrait has shaped who we have become. But human nature is far richer than this, as early sketches of our new se
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