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Behind the Shell: The Luster of Variegated Gems
A meeting such as this seems like a beautiful cluster of precious jewels—pearls, rubies, diamonds, sapphires. It is a source of joy and delight. Whatever is conducive to the unity of the world of mankind is most acceptable and praiseworthy; whatever is the cause of discord and disunion is saddening and deplorable.
Consultative Relational Research
Consultative Relational Research speaks to a model of service and a pivotal research focus. Our version of consultative research builds from the assumption that each of our clients have a unique story and contextual experience. We keenly listen for what is unique about each client, and build a collaborative approach that addresses their foremost research need in the most suitable manner and within the necessary scope.
The Best of Both Research Worlds
So far, we have noted requirements tied to deploying effective surveys and how useful qualitative methods are in generating the sentiments and experiences that lay the foundation for mutual understanding. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are fine to use by themselves, given the research question at hand, but using both methods together has proven to be especially powerful in helping organizations gain a more three-dimensional understanding of the social things they deem to be worthy of study.
Coordination technologies
In chronological* order: Kinship systems Religion Art Clothing/jewelry Music Gift exchange Language Oral recitation Written language Law Money Bureaucracy Voting Double-entry bookkeeping Facts Scientific method Peer review Printing Markets…
Enriching Mutual Understanding with Rich Data
Mutual understanding is a powerful force for constructive social change. At the same time, it takes effort to get there, especially among people from diverse social backgrounds who have experienced life differently. Mutual understanding is built through unfettered dialogue, so facilitating mutual understanding from a research standpoint involves cultivating the right atmosphere, an active listening posture, and intense amount of re-listening to the dialogue to properly capture the meaning and implications of what was shared. Technology is cool, but there are no shortcuts here if the goal is gaining rich insights on the dialogical elements that can build mutual understanding and eventually translate it into constructive action.
The Five Cs of Survey Design
Surveys are a powerful means for gaining a better understanding of stakeholder sentiments and how they are feeling about their experiences. At the same time, the effectiveness of surveys are directly tied to the level of effort and expertise behind their design. Some of the most important characteristics of effective surveys can be broken down into the ‘five Cs.’
'New Worlds' for a Better World
Whether consciously or unconsciously, organizations either activate a world-building or world-receiving mode of operating. World-building organizations generate reciprocal flows of energy through constructive relationships that magnetize participation and fertilize growth. They exert a force on the world that galvanizes change, seeding inspiration along the way. World-receiving organizations take their cues from society as it exists, ever-primed to model their operations and relationships based on the reigning sociopolitical environment.
Schein's model of organizational culture
Edgar Schein's posits three levels of organizational culture: Artifacts and behaviours : any equipment and processes you can point to. Espoused values : stated values and rules of behavior. How the organization presents itself to itself (and…
Project management map
If you don't have a proper project manager, you could do worse than to fill in the blanks in this punchlist. It's useful to have resources lined up to solve these problems. Strategy, research Who do we think our customer is? What is their…
Mastodon Announces New EU Non-Profit
The Mastodon project is continuing to grow and evolve. As the organization continues to take shape and raise funds, key members of the project have decided to transition several parts of the project to a new Non-Profit organization, to better reflect their ideals. This new organization will retain ownership of the Mastodon brand and copyright, along with platform components and other assets. One aspect worth noting here is that CEO Eugen Rochko will likely be transitioning away from CEO into a new role that allows him to better focus on software development. Much of the project’s current scope and goals …
Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation
A new organization emerges to help tackle some of the challenges the Fediverse faces, from advocacy and policy to training and tooling.
Soft security
As opposed to hard security. Soft security patterns from Meatball Wiki : Soft Security is like water. It bends under attack, only to rush in from all directions to fill the gaps. It's strong over time yet adaptable to any shape. It seeks to…
TIMN
In a report for RAND , David Ronfeldt posits that 3 forms of political organization have evolved over the course of history, now joined by one more: Tribe — Lineage-based political organization. Hacks our natural evolutionary drive to protect our…
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy
In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to…
Goodhart's law
Goodhart's Law : When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Goodhart's Law applies to feedback system with humans in the loop . It does not apply to feed-forward systems. Any system including people is a kind of feedback…
3 Ps
A company may be looked as a combination of 3 things: The people who work at the company. The process the company uses to get work done. The purpose for which the company exists. Purpose is why you're here. Have you explicitly articulated your…
Charlie Kindel's 5 Ps
Charlie Kindel's 5 Ps for starting a project : Purpose : Why do we exist? Why are we in business? Where do we want to be in the future? What will we deliver? Principles : What are the non-negotiable rules and key strategies? How will we act?…
Culture is a shared mechanism for problem solving
Edger Shine , on the culture of a business: Culture is a shared mechanism for problem solving. Einstellung effect The first group of people that encounter a problem don't know how to solve it. They figure out a way of doing it, and when they get to…