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Slideshare comp: Complexity & Humanity 2.0
Thanks to everyone who shared, liked, commented on and favourited my slideshare presentation Complexity and Humanity 2.0; and for all the lovely messages.
I’ve made a video out of the deck and I’m entering it into Slideshare’s video of the week contest.
If you like it please vote for me by retweeting this link (or sharing it on facebook): http://slidesha.re/aiNZFk
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The fundamental role of Producer
The Story
Creative destruction
I’ve noticed that many of the business folk I meet fall broadly into two distinct categories: those who are trying to do something and those who are trying to be something. Truth be told, I don’t have much time for the latter. The former, on the other hand – those who are trying to do something – don’t need to try to be anything… they just are. And I love them.
There’s something sparkly about people who are trying to do something – instigating change – like entrepreneurs who are the masters of ‘creative destruction’… a term Joseph Schumpeter popularised when he outlined his vision of capitalism, around innovative entry by entrepreneurs as the force that sustains long-term economic growth, even as it destroys the value of established monopoly companies.
The difference between those trying to do something and those trying to be something is more stark than ever in our current social media frenzy. If you’re trying to do something, media isn’t the point, technology isn’t the point – the objectives are what’s important… and the ability to question… why are we spending time and money on this? Is it in line with what we’re trying to do? Is it what our customers want? Are they getting value from it?
Meanwhile those who are trying to be something are focused on being… cool. And everyone knows there’s nothing less cool than trying to be cool 
If you’ve ever been in a meeting and had the same feeling in your guts as when you’ve watched your dad dancing, it’s time to refocus on what you want to DO. All else will follow.
Those who are trying to be something can keep their shuffling boardroom butlers, loud bar talk and tie-tweaking long-winded background intros… but we’ll take the tea and biscuits. Just don’t expect us not to roll our eyes.
‘Future of TV Advertising’ on slideshare
My presentation on The Future of TV Advertising is featured on the Slideshare home page. Thanks Slideshare!
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Quote of the day
Every organism needs to eliminate its waste products, or else it poisons itself.
[Drucker]
Go see Alan speak at MIT
Alan Moore is giving a talk on 17th November at this MIT event.
Here is a brief synopsis:
We are witnesses to a structural and transformational change in society, what many describe as the toxic tail end of our industrial, mass consumer, mass media era. The tragic legacy of the last 150 years is that humanity has been thin sliced and deconstructed almost to the point of destruction. Human beings have become little more than individual units of capitalism – pawns of economists and unfettered capitalism.
But the fact is, “I needs we, to truly be I,” wrote Carl Jung, and this is why we as a species are at the barricades of a communications revolution, in which humanity is renegotiating the power relationships between; people, organisations, and even governments. As social philosopher Richard Sennett argues, we want to, “recover something of the spirit of the Enlightenment on terms appropriate to our time”.
The tools of the revolution are digital communication technologies, but the drivers are about human connection and human identity. Technology does not come out of nowhere, it is indeed a human invention in the first place, and these technologies succeed to the extent they meet fundamental human needs. The rise of the networked society is no accident, and a new philosophy is needed now to enable individuals and organisations adapt to a new way of doing, trading, educating, living.
Therefore, our imperative is to de-school ourselves in a philosophy and a way of thinking and acting that has delivered us into a cultural, ideological and economic cul-de-sac. We need to liberate ourselves from how we were once taught to think and live our lives, stemming from the ethos of industrialisation and the mass consumer society.
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Alan is a rare breed – genuine, in it for the right reasons and knows what’s important. I’d highly recommend you grab the chance to be there.
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Putting the Fun in Functional
Useful stuff from Amy Jo Kim…
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