Published July 5, 2011 by Winnipeg Free Press (Editorials page A11) In response to Dan Lett’s “High court says plea deals can be broken” in the Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, June 25, 2011 Dogs and reporters have one thing in common: it’s their job to snarl and snap at your heels until you face the [...]
Archive for the ‘Human Behaviour’ Category
Reporters watchdogs as Supreme Court breaks deals to convict
Posted: July 4, 2011 in Broken Bones, Courage, Democracy, Digging for Bones, Human Behaviour, Leaders, Public RelationsTags: Canada, Crime, Plea, Plea bargain, Supreme Court of Canada, Technology, Winnipeg Free Press
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Swift Trust: predict high performance teams
Posted: May 18, 2011 in Communications, Digging for Bones, Gotta Bone to Pick, Human Behaviour, Leaders, Marketing, Psychology, Public Relations, Social Marketing, Social NetworkingTags: Decision making, Harvard Business Review, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Management, Marathon, Project team, Sport, trust
When we need to work quickly and competently on complex problems with people we don’t know, Meyerson, Weick and Kramer say: use “swift trust”. With this pseudo trust, medical teams and cockpit crews establish a temporary interdependence that saves lives. Without it, people die. In a less dramatic example, the consequences of operating without “swift [...]
Social Media Identity Game: find yourself online
Posted: May 12, 2011 in Human Behaviour, Social Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, TECHNOLOGYTags: Facebook, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Real life, Sherry Turkle, Technology, Twitter, Virtual community, Virtual reality
Blurring the lines between who you are today and who you want to be is desirable, like taking a car for a test drive before you commit. If you don’t like who you are, supreme makeover online costs nothing. Or does it? Experiment and improvise online Social iteration, the constructing of new selves online, is [...]
Following the Tribe: Don’t make me think!
Posted: January 8, 2011 in Communications, Courage, Digging for Bones, Human Behaviour, Inspiration, Leaders, Psychology, Social Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, TECHNOLOGY, Writing Down the BonesTags: Belonging, FOLLOW, Groupthink, Hans Christian Andersen, independence, Kitty Genovese, leadership, Malcolm Gladwell, Social Alliances, social networking, THINK, Tipping Point, TRIBE, unplug, viral
What happens to make an idea blaze up like a raging grass fire or 12-alarm catastrophe? What conditions have to exist to give birth to a magical viral trend that infects the human imagination? Fire and water both move along the lines of least resistance. Social alliances, the common ground among people, move like that [...]
