Social capital. What is it? Social capital can be the value of our social networks. And there are, within that, a wide spread of definitions. I’d say it is the use of relationships to store value shared between people which can be applied later within a gift economy framework. But if you show up at …
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Being a Contribution
People want to be a contribution. This comes from Art of Possibility. Ben tells a lovely story about biking where he got a flat tire. He went to a gas station to pump up the tire. The air pump costs $.25 or whatever. He didn’t have change. He asked if they could make change. They sadly …
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Epic Win!
“What is all this talk about an epic win? Sounds great. What do you mean?” Games are designed, often, to get you to the epic win! You defeat the monster at the end of the course. You built skills along the way and then proved you could use them against something big and atrocious. When …
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Slow Down to Move Faster
Let’s look at learnings from building and launching The Agency itself this week. Slow down to move faster. During production, I was trying to fix an error in the website. Without thinking it through I revised the theme, hoping that would debug it. However, that deleted all the work Kathryn had done to spice up …
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Defining New Economy
“The new economy” swirls in the air of many network circles now. What does that mean? How did we shift perspective on the old economy in order to see this new possibility? What and how do we need to build our economy better? Wikipedia says new economy means the shift from manufacturing to service. But …
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Perspectives from Builders
Where have you shifted perspectives? How has shifting perspectives enabled breakthroughs for you? How has it resolved conflicts?
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SCRUM March 1
SCRUM is part of Agile Methodology for software development. We are hacking it for our purposes here. Rapid fire, on our weekly checkin, we will each share: Done – What have you done that matters? Aim – Name 1-3 goals for the week Challenge – What challenges you on your path to an Epic Win? …
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