“The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of delivering and assimilating new technology into the workplace, we must look to the way humans act and react. In the last 20 years, US industry has invested more than $1 trillion in technology, but has realised little improvement in the efficiency of its knowledge workers and virtually none in their effectiveness. If we could solve the problems of the assimilation of new technology, the potential would be enormous.” IfsWayYearsHumansLooksLittlesFactsProblemWould BeLastsTechnologySuccessfulIndustryWorkersSolveImprovementEnormousBehaviourEfficiencyWorkplaceEffectivenessRealisedNew TechnologyDeliveringAssimilationHuman BehaviourKnowledge Workers Author:John Seely Brown
“Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.” PracticeFlowRail Book:Storytelling in Organizations Source: Storytelling in Organizations
“The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.” NeedsPlayHappensImaginationKeysInnovationIngredients Author:John Seely Brown
“People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.” PeopleKnowsNeedsMeanMatterKnow HowPiecesInformation Author:John Seely Brown
“John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with.” MenAttitudeWorstWayne Author:Jill Haworth
“My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.” MadeClearPlayerTeamVery GoodMade ItOccasionsGood FriendTeam PlayerVery Good Friends Author:Eric Massa
“I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.” BelieveHappensCareCrisisHealth Care Author:Eric Massa
“With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very sad passing of my personal friend Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.” SaidCareRunningHouseMinesVoteBillsPassingPassingsAdministrationHealth CareTragicHawaiiDepartureDotsCongressmanVery Sad Author:Eric Massa
“Moke Kupihea has the strength of conviction necessary to impart to the world a more sensitive account of Hawaiian kahuna heritage, which comes down to him from the priesthood line from which he descends.” WorldLinesAccountsConvictionSensitiveHeritageImpartPriesthoodHawaiians Author:Rubellite Kawena Johnson