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Social Orgs and Media. Here are all the posts that have appeared on Authentic Organizations. Scan the titles and see what other posts intrigue you! You can expand the list to display titles for all the posts (not just this month) by clicking on “Expand All”. 26: How Generosity At Work Saved a Local Business. 24: Come With Me To a New Place on the Interwebz! 23: 3 Ways Etsy’s Parental Leave Policy Demonstrates Generosity At Work. 04: Defining Your Business’s Success Using Net Positive Value. 09: Pattern L...
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Growth Hacking To Scale Generosity
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Social Orgs and Media. Growth Hacking To Scale Generosity. August 14, 2014. When a startup like Harrys.com. Launches with an outreach campaign that that gets 85K potential customers to share their email address, people are impressed. When the cofounder of that company writes a 3,700 word explanation of what they did to achieve those results. And then posts it on one of America’s most popular business blogs. So that other marketers can learn from their experience, people are even more impressed. While a p...
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Generative Business Practice: Questions from Harvard’s Digital Initiative
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Social Orgs and Media. Generative Business Practice: Questions from Harvard’s Digital Initiative. November 25, 2014. I got lots of feedback from the folks who participated in the HBS Digital Initiative seminar. Where I presented some big picture ideas about generative practices. As promised, I’m summarizing what they shared with me on the index cards we used to gather up ideas. While I was so. glad. that I asked for their comments,. I did make one mistake:. Ideas to Explore/Think About:. Parallels to com...
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Only Transparent and Open Practices Generate Opportunity For Your Network
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Social Orgs and Media. Only Transparent AND Open Practices Generate Opportunity For Your Network. June 24, 2014. Businesses need to be both transparent. Open to create opportunities for themselves and their entire network. Yet even though we know that qualities like “open” and “transparent” are preconditions for innovation. We often aren’t clear about what these terms actually mean. Sometimes people even use the terms interchangeably. 8216;Open’ is a quality of. 8216;Transparent’ is a quality of. Is ‘the...
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Generative Orgs
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Social Orgs and Media. Generous Products: How Products Do What They Do, as a form of Generosity. January 7, 2016. Tweet I’m “working out loud in public” with a rangy, rambling first draft. What I’m working to understand, with this draft, is how to explain ‘generous products’, and how to link ideas about generous products to current conversations about product design. This is a small piece of the puzzle, focused on how products themselves might be […]. Read the full article →. December 3, 2014. Tweet Two ...
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Pattern Language for Generative Interactions: 3 Approaches to Learn
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Social Orgs and Media. Pattern Language for Generative Interactions: 3 Approaches to Learn. May 9, 2014. 8212; a lexicon and grammar that communicate the details of how and why a design is terrific — to share expertise and promote good design. We need a pattern language for business-to-business relationships. We need to be able to define, design and simply talk about business relationships that are. Patterns that stimulate collisions. And patterns that invite diverse perspectives. It’s not only har...
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Generativity, in General
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Social Orgs and Media. Generativity, in General. March 28, 2014. The word ‘generative’ may be unfamiliar to many business people, but the quality of generativity is something we’ve sought in our companies and our work practices for a long time. Something is generative when it’s able to create something new, something original, or something alive. A generative idea produces new ideas, a generative process produces new outcomes, a generative relationship. What does ‘generativity’ mean? Psychoanalyst Erik E...
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How Do We Know If Practices are Actually Generative?
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Social Orgs and Media. How Do We Know If Practices are Actually Generative? December 3, 2014. There’s a vast gulf of questionable causality captured by those ‘and’s. How do we know if generative practices have generative impact? It didn’t surprise me when this question came up at the HBS Digital Initiative seminar, since it’s been haunting me for some time. What are ‘generative’ practices? But do I know this is true? 5 Ways to Assess Generative Impact. Feedback that demonstrates that a resource was actua...
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Two Tweaks for Generative Seminar Practices: Notes from Harvard Business School Digital Initiative
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Social Orgs and Media. Two Tweaks for Generative Seminar Practices: Notes from Harvard Business School Digital Initiative. November 19, 2014. Two weeks ago I traveled up to Cambridge to talk about Generative Business Practices. With the folks of Harvard Business School’s Digital Initiative. Until I get there, you might enjoy the l ive blog of the talk that David Weinberger created. Next, perhaps my smallest reflection on the seminar:. Giving a Seminar Is A Generative Practice. Are much more welcoming.
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Are All Generative Businesses a Little Naughty? The case of MakeLoveNotPorn
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Social Orgs and Media. Are All Generative Businesses a Little Naughty? The case of MakeLoveNotPorn. April 3, 2014. No startup challenges our norms about ‘appropriate business’ more than MakeLoveNotPorn. Is a user-generated crowdsourced video platform that celebrates real world sex. MLNP is a legal, lucrative, and. Disruptor of the adult entertainment industry. It’s also a profoundly generative business. MLNP is generative not. It’s naughty, but because of. How we share what we learn. MLNP’s marketplace w...
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