We had many great Future Salons over the years, so I don't post this lightly. You have to come to this one on Thursday 25th of February 6-9pm at SAP Labs in Palo Alto as it will be the most important Future Salon ever.
Lawrence Lessig with Change Congress First! is fighting to get legislation passed for public financing of elections. Check out his latest video.He is also calling for a convention. There is a chance that he will present at a Future Salon in the spring too.
In our February Future Salon we are tackling this problem from a different angle. What if we could activate consciousness in corporations, could bake it into their bylaws?
Lawyer John Montgomery has represneted over 1000 startups and sees a definate pattern among the successful ones. He wants to share that pattern of success. He is writing a book about it and will present it to a larger audience for the first time at this Future Salon.
2. Give a quick history
of the development of the conscience of the corporation and the current stage
of development of the corporate conscience. A lot of this is actually in
the court case, which reflects the overwhelming ambivalence our society has
about corporations and the prevailing mistrust of them due to the steady stream
of unconscionable behavior they manifest.
3. Suggest the opportunity
to take the corporate conscience to its next logical stage of development.
4. Do an interactive
exercise with everyone in the room to quickly demonstrate how easy it is for a
collective to consciously and expressly articulate and activate its collective
conscience.
For point 4 we need you to fill out the RSVP (http://bit.ly/9kPpRt) where we have added one question: What are your top three personal core values?
John Montgomery has practiced corporate law in Silicon Valley since 1984. John's
experience includes extensive corporate counseling to public and
private companies and venture capital firms. He has represented clients
in connection with numerous venture capital financings, initial public
offerings, public and private mergers and acquisitions, going private
transactions and a variety of other general corporate matters. [more]
Future Salons have the following structure: 6-7pm is networking with
light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP; 7-9+pm is the presentation
followed by questions and discussion.
SAP Labs North America, Building D, COIL (Co-Innovation Lab). SAP is located at 3410 Hillview Avenue,
Palo Alto, CA 94304[map]. Free and open to the public. Please spread the word and invite others, but be sure to RSVPhttp://bit.ly/9kPpRt so we know how many people to expect.
Artificial Intuition researcher Monica Anderson
will take a closer look at the scientific process and what the latest
developments are in that field.
Join us for this interesting evening on Thursday 21st of January 2010 6pm at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. Please RSVP. (more info further down)
I caught up with Monica and as a little teaser for our Future Salon asked her 3 questions and here are her answers (more detailed than I thought):
1) Do you have a favorite example where the reductionist method of science doesn't work, or even leads to wrong answers?
My favorite example is understanding language. No system based on grammars or other reductionist methods will consistently perform at human level on any task requiring the decoding of the meaning of human languages since language is holistic and meaning is emergent. Algorithms like those used for web search are currently mostly counting unusual words in documents and in so doing, ignoring common but important words like "not". This leads to false positives for words that have many meanings and many other kinds of search quality problems. A decade from now we will likely view our current web search algorithms as gross reductionist hacks but right now they are the best we can do. Besides web search, machine translation and voice recognition are other examples where the poor performance directly follows from their inability to understand language. Neither really works, after decades of hard work, and they will never reach human level performance as long as we try to do it using Reductionist methods. Google's latest translation systems use non-parametric models and have been outperforming all other algorithms in major competitions.
2) Intuition some may say is something that separates us from the animals. You are working on Artificial Intuition. What is it and when do you know you have succeeded in creation one?
I actually believe the opposite: All animals, including humans, have similar, basic Intuition. We use this intuition every step we take; my theory is that intuition based skills get better with practice. If practice makes perfect, then you are using intuition. We all had to practice to learn to walk.
Better and larger brains evolved over time so the intuitive competence varies from species to species. On top of the more basic skills like navigating the world and moving around in it humans have more advanced Intuition based skills that manifest themselves in several ways: - Humans are more effective learners than other animals. - Humans have much better language skills than other animals - Humans have much better reasoning skills than other animals.
"Humans are better at aping than apes". We can learn complex procedures after seeing them once, which means our mechanisms for gathering experience are more effective. Part of this is that as we mature, we learn better ways to learn. But none of these skills require reasoning; they are the result of more effective versions of Intuition (the algorithm) and more data (experience gathered over a lifetime).
At Syntience we are concentrating on the task of understanding language. Our focus is Artificial Intuition - a machine learning algorithm that attempts to determine, learn, and re-use nested patterns in streams of bytes, such as text. This includes determination of saliency and abstractions, concepts, relations, etc. But before we can get to the higher levels of language understanding we have to get the lower levels right since everything builds on all levels below. 20th century AI never got to the lower parts - the kind of understanding we share with other animals - and therefore had nothing to reason about; they were building castles in the air.
We know we will have succeeded when we can outperform the current Reductionist methods on industry standard reading comprehension tests, such as word segmentation: We remove all the spaces from a paragraph of text that the system has never seen but in a language it supposedly understands. If it can put the spaces back in 100.00% correctly, then we win. If you think this is too easy a task, challenge me at the talk. And if we can get one such test consistently right, then we can likely use the same system on *any* language understanding task.
Incidentally, improved Chinese word segmentation would immediately be a product that would create significant revenue.
3) Tell us about a holistic model at work. What problem got solved that wasn't possible via old school science?
All models are the result of some reduction of the problem. Therefore there are no holistic models; if there were, then they would be "perfect simulations", not models. Also, all Model Free methods are Holistic, and vice versa. So if the question had been "Tell us about a Model Free Method at work. What problem got solved that wasn't possible via old school science?" I could have answered:
Around 1995 a friend turned me on to the Constrained Set Coverage Problem and I wrote a short program in Macintosh Common Lisp that generated, in 20 minutes on a Mac Quadra, the same (and complete) set of answers that had taken 3 days to compute on a Cray. No analytical solutions are possible. The Cray effort used a weak Model Free method (complete enumeration) and I used a more powerful Model Free Method (a Genetic Algorithm). .
The Constrained Set Coverage Problem has been shown to be NP-Hard. So Holistic Methods can sometimes be used even if the problems are NP-Hard. Of course, there is no guarantee of success and no telling how long it takes. I succeeded because of a limited dimensionality of the stated problem. But Model Free Methods will be able to try and sometimes succeed in cases where Reductionist methods would say "it can't be done".
The original problem was discussed in Science News Magazine.
This Future Salon is going to be really interesting.
Future Salons have the following structure: 6-7pm is networking with
light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP; 7-9+pm is the presentation
followed by questions and discussion.
SAP Labs North America, Building D, COIL (Co-Innovation Lab). SAP is located at 3410 Hillview Avenue,
Palo Alto, CA 94304[map]. Free and open to the public. Please spread the word and invite others, but be sure to RSVP http://bit.ly/52OgZu so we know how many people to expect.
We
will do our best to webcast the event again via Ustream.tv on the
Future Salon Channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Future-Salon
Without Foresight Institute Gatherings I wouldn't have met John Smart and there wouldn't be a Future Salon. Therefore it is my great pleasure to promote this year's conference:
Foresight Gathering 2010: The Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
Christine Peterson the organizer of the Gathering is Vice President of Foresight Institute, a
nonprofit focusing on advanced technologies especially nanotech and AI.
"I love organizing conferences and this one covers the two most important technology developments for the coming decades."
What are you most excited about the event?
There have been meetings on molecular manufacturing and on artificial
general intelligence, but to our knowledge this is the first one to
zero in on the *interaction* of these, which will be huge.
How does a foresight gathering differ from other conferences?
Foresight events attract some of the most intelligent and interesting
people on the planet, and many of them are working actively to make the
world a better place. Participants often find new collaborators at our
conferences -- and of course new friends.
If only this would be during the week, which would make it easier for me to come. Now with family, it is tough. On the other hand you don't have to take vacation days to join the fun.
We are starting 2010 with a great Future Salon. One of Future Salon's pillars is the scientific method. Artificial Intuition researcher Monica Anderson will take a closer look at the scientific process and what the latest developments are in that field. How solid is this pillar?
Join us for this interesting evening on Thursday 21st of January 2010 6pm at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. Please RSVP. (more info further down)
Abstract: Reductionism - the idea that difficult problems should be attacked
by dividing them into simpler problems - is the most fundamental
principle of the hard sciences. The justification "The Whole equals the
sum of its Parts" has been used for thousands of years. Physics and
related sciences, and the support disciplines of mathematics and
computer science are all permeated by this Reductionist stance, and for
good reason: It has worked really well. We have found compact
explanations for all kinds of phenomena and have solved countless
problems using these strategies.
But these strategies don't always work in Life
Sciences like Biology, Genomics, Psychology, and Ecology. Often "The
Whole is larger than the sum of its Parts" and when taking things
apart, emergent phenomena like life, quality, intelligence, and meaning
simply disappear. All attempts to capture the essence of life using
Reductionist models, equations, and theories of living systems have
failed. The Life Sciences have for decades managed to get by using
other approaches. They use methods that emphasize Whole Systems and
where context is to be exploited rather than discarded as a distracting
nuisance. These methods adopt a more "Holistic" stance.
What has gone largely unnoticed is that many of
these alternative approaches involve using weaker and weaker models,
all the way to what we will call "Model Free Methods" (following Lionel
S. Penrose, 1935). We have gathered a zoo of such methods and
implemented some of them in computers. Amazingly, they allow discovery
of solutions to problems "without understanding the problem" in the
Reductionist sense. The advent of computers able to manipulate Big
Data has made these Holistic Methods possible.
We finish with the claim that Artificial
Intelligence failed in the 20th century because "Intelligence is
Holistic" but AI was then mostly practiced by programmers - a
profession that has, by its nature, always attracted the most
hard-lined Reductionists. In the 21st Century, progress in AI will
require that we convert AI into a Life Science and start using Model
Free Methods the way other Life Sciences do. Researchers at Syntience
Inc. have been pursuing this approach to AI since 2001 using an
Algorithm named Artificial Intuition.
Future Salons have the following structure: 6-7pm is networking with
light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP; 7-9+pm is the presentation
followed by questions and discussion.
SAP Labs North America, Building D, COIL (Co-Innovation Lab). SAP is located at 3410 Hillview Avenue,
Palo Alto, CA 94304[map]. Free and open to the public. Please spread the word and invite others, but be sure to RSVP http://bit.ly/52OgZu so we know how many people to expect.
We
will do our best to webcast the event again via Ustream.tv on the
Future Salon Channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Future-Salon
He is out with a super cool new book Exult trying to answer the question: Is a life fully lived worth an early death? About a hang glider from Berkeley that is experiencing death and near death and everything in between ;-)
Joe used to hang glide, which is one of the reason the book is thick with emotions like the exhilaration of flying and the fear of the crash.
It is a fast paced page turner and keeps you mulling the essential question of how to live your life.
Correction: Next Saturday December 12th you have the chance to hear him read from his book.
In his own words: At the new Books Inc. in Berkeley, I'm going to read two sections
from my new novel, Exult. It's a philosophical action adventure, so
I'll read a harrowing action scene, and the harrowing argument that
results.
I'm also going to talk about the promise and challenges of ebooks and
print-on-demand publishing, and I'm going to break the authors'
silence and address the deep problems with traditional publishing.
Only Books Inc. would allow me-- no, encourage me-- to talk about
this. Gotta tip the hat to Calvin Crosby, store manager.
Saturday, December 12, 7 PM.
1760 Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA
510.525.7777
-- a stone's throw from the site of the former Cody's Books.
I wasn't able to participate, but heard that we really packed the house, actually we had to go to the larger room to accommodate the people. Check out the replay of the session.
Last week was the last Future Salon for this year. Even though I wasn't able to participate, I hear John Smart did a great job hosting and it was a big success.Thank you. It is great to have people like John to carry the torch.
Actually it would be even better, if more people that like what the Future Salon is doing would join. With your extra push, we are convinced, it will be even better next year.
"Yes, but how much effort will it be?" I hear you think ;-) No one has time these days. We want to make it as easy and efficient as possible.
Early December we will have an evening meeting where we talk about the general direction and split up the months between us. Depending on how many people we are, you focus on your theme and month, host that month and that is it.
The overarching theme of the Future Salon is:
Boldly creating a world that works for us all.
Therefore we are not covering the latest gadgets at our salons. We are interested in taking a look at larger trends, limits of our own human capabilities and how to overcome them. What can be done to create a more just society that gives opportunities to everyone involved to grow to their full potential?
If that aligns with your own vision and interests, please fill out the following couple of questions and we will contact you regarding the December meeting.
Of course filling out this form doesn't commit you to anything. We know that even with the best intentions life has the tendency to catch up with and sweep you into a different direction than planned.
Let's end the Future Salon year with a bang: 9 steps to a healthier
happier you presented by Mark Allen 6 times Ironman winner and Brant
Secunda a shaman, healer and ceremonial leader in the Huichol Indian
tradition of Mexico. Tuesday 10th of November 6pm at SAP Labs in Palo
Alto. Please RSVP http://tinyurl.com/ybclfbp.
Fit Soul Fit Body, 9 Keys to a Healthier Happier You
World-renowned shaman Brant Secunda and legendary Ironman
Mark Allen will talk about their bestselling book, Fit Soul Fit Body. They will
speak about how to become truly fit from the inside out and take your life to
the next level. Whether you’re training for an athletic event or just want to improve
the quality of your life and how you feel about yourself, Fit Soul Fit Body - 9
Keys to a Healthier Happier You is about everything that makes you well. [more]
As promised the second part of Professor Merzenich's Future Salon talk. Enjoy.
You may want to jump to minute 44 where he lists 13 elements from as he says 1000s that have an influence on our brain plasticity development in ways that we don't yet comprehend and why he thinks that we are not evolved enough to handle the pace of development that we are jumping in literally head first:
We are driving culture too fast and are too dump to understand the consequences.
Cutting umbilical cord too early: Leads to 2 minutes of no oxygen to the brain, which is a suspect for the rise in autism.
Only very few drugs have been studied regarding their influence on the brain.
Chemical safety regulations: 100s of 1000s of chemicals are created every year and they are only banned if there is a clear demonstration of harm.
Car seats (He put that one up for fun). Is it a good idea to put our little kids into little prisons? Same with making our babies sleep on their back. Consequence is that the baby is slower in regards to crawling. His prediction: We will have a female president in the future and she will be very authoritarian because of the restrictions put on her via our current car seats. The interest of our children to go to the outdoors or to the parks will continue to decline because our children don't see what is happening outside of the car window. We come from growing up in the wilderness and we are now wilderness deprived.
We have paved our ways. We have hard shoes to take away the unevenness. Our brains are amazing at balancing out the differences and it actually burns lots of calories doing it, but we don't want hardship. It is not a surprise that it has been proven, that people living on cobble stone streets are healthier. It is one of the reasons why in old age we are frailer than we should be. We were not designed for paved roads.
Hand held devices.
We systematically make our children being afraid of all adults. What a screwy idea to make every child being afraid of every adult. It's insane.
TV addiction
Taking executive control of our children's lives. [24 hour surveillance.] Shouldn't that be one of your main goals to give our kids the executive control of their lives?
Video games.
Narcissism: One word Twitter. [Comment: That on a day when I twitter more than ever ;-)] Let's all be really self-interested. Let's practice many hours a day on how cool we are.
Pornography and media: Is that really a good idea? Praying to the lowest denominator?
By using GPS your brain shrinks. London taxi drivers are able to pass the license test after 3 years of studying, aka driving around on scooters to memorize streets. One year after introducing GPS the London taxi driver's extended brain shrunk back to the usual size. [Comment: There is always a trade-off. Since we can read, we can't remember as good as we used to. We just didn't know how big the difference is for your brain. Another proof of use it or loose it.]
One of our problems is, that these things are just too complicated to do anything about them.
We have about 1000 things that are really important, most of them we don't even know about. Individually we may know about one of them deeply, may be a handful, but that is it.
We have to figure out how we as a society get true expertise around these problems to resolve them and we have to figure out how by accepting our individual limitations we can accept societal solutions.
We have a long long way to go to do that and we may be incapable to do it, because remember we are inherently selfish, a fundamental problem that we have to deal with.
We are at the beginning of enlightenment or disaster. Somehow we have to bring science and knowledge back into this for a true understanding of what we are.
In a sense the only hope we have really is to identify what we are and accept what we are with our limitations.
It took us a while to post it, as we were hoping to get the slides. People came up to me after the talk and said that it was one of the best Future Salons ever.
It is only part one, as I maxed out the weekly allowence for uploading video. Next week part II.
Let's end the Future Salon year with a bang: 9 steps to a healthier happier you presented by Mark Allen 6 times Ironman winner and Brant Secunda a shaman, healer and ceremonial leader in the Huichol Indian tradition of Mexico. Tuesday 10th of November 6pm at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. Please RSVP http://tinyurl.com/ybclfbp.
Fit Soul Fit Body, 9 Keys to a Healthier Happier You
World-renowned shaman Brant Secunda and legendary Ironman
Mark Allen will talk about their bestselling book, Fit Soul Fit Body. They will
speak about how to become truly fit from the inside out and take your life to
the next level. Whether you’re training for an athletic event or just want to improve
the quality of your life and how you feel about yourself, Fit Soul Fit Body - 9
Keys to a Healthier Happier You is about everything that makes you well.
Think you know what it means to be fit? Think again.
Let’s face it: fitness goes far beyond how long it takes
to walk or run a mile. When you’re stressed out, emotionally drained,
overworked, overweight, and not satisfied with your physical body, you can’t
get much of anything accomplished—at work, at home, on the race track, wherever
and in whichever capacity.Put simply,
when you’re spiritually unfit, life is a greater challenge. That mythical
“balance” you’ve always dreamed of achieving was just a myth. Not anymore!
Mark Allen was one of the top triathletes in the world but
struggled to overcome the barriers that were preventing him from winning the
grueling Ironman World Championship Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii.
Then he began studying with Brant Secunda, healer and
teacher in the Huichol Indian tradition of Mexico. Brant is the only Westerner
to have completed a 12-year apprenticeship with Don José Matsuwa, the revered
Huichol Indian shaman who lived a vibrant, happy life to 110 years old. Brant
taught Mark the spiritual and healing exercises that allowed him to integrate
his physical and psychological fitness. He gives Brant much of the credit for
his remarkable success.
Mark went on to win a never-before-achieved six Ironman
World Championships in a row, and was eventually dubbed “The World’s Fittest
Man” by Outside magazine.
Bio
Brant Secunda is
an internationally acclaimed shaman, healer and ceremonial leader in the
Huichol Indian tradition of Mexico. He completed a twelve-year apprenticeship
with Don José Matsuwa, the renowned Huichol Shaman who lived to be 110 years
old and who adopted Brant as his grandson. Alongside other dignitaries
including President Jimmy Carter, Brant cofounded the Peace University in
Berlin, and is a founding member of the American Herbalists Guild and has
taught at the American Holistic Medical Association Annual Conference.
Brant lectures at conferences and universities worldwide,
and since 1979 has been the director of the Dance of the Deer Foundation Center
for Shamanic Studies in Soquel, California. He has worked with many
organizations including The World Health Organization and the American Holistic
Medical Association, was the cofounder of the Humanistic Medicine Congress in
Germany, and was a nominee to be a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Award
for his service worldwide. He leads seminars and retreats at spectacular places
of power like Japan, Crete, the Italian Alps, Alaska, Mt. Shasta in California,
and the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. His work has been documented on television,
radio, and in articles and books throughout the USA, Europe and Japan.
Mark Allen
is a six-time Ironman World Champion. He has been called “The World’s Fittest
Man” by Outside magazine and “The Greatest Triathlete of All Time” by
Triathlete magazine. He attributes his success to his ongoing studies with
Brant Secunda, who showed him how to find fitness not only in physical strength
but in the power of personal spirit and balanced living. Mark and his races
have been featured numerous times on major network television and in national
publications; he has appeared on more than 100 popular covers worldwide.
Since leaving the sport after a successful 15-year career
while still at the top of his game, Mark has worked as a sports commentator and
advisor for NBC.He’s also consulted
with and spoken to many Fortune 500 companies, including American Express,
Honeywell, Northwestern Mutual, and Oracle.He developed “Forever Fit,” a special program designed to help people
live a healthy life.
Brant and Mark continue to work together at events and
retreats around the world and to develop Fit Soul, Fit Body programs. Their
book was inspired by a successful workshop they created 12 years ago for people
in the US and Europe seeking practical tools for transforming themselves from
the inside out. The tenets of Fit Soul, Fit Body offer the ultimate, unique
roadmap for fostering optimal health, happiness, and wellbeing.
Future Salons have the following structure: 6-7pm is networking with
light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP; 7-9+pm is the presentation
followed by questions and discussion.
SAP Labs North America, Building D, COIL (Co-Innovation Lab). SAP is located at 3410 Hillview Avenue,
Palo Alto, CA 94304[map]. Free and open to the public. Please spread the word and invite others, but be sure to RSVP http://tinyurl.com/ybclfbp so we know how many people to expect.
We
will do our best to webcast the event again via Ustream.tv on the
Future Salon Channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Future-Salon
Cool event organized by Flowplace happening this Thursday 9am PST.
Have you always wanted to be part of the challenge of building the next world? ... If so we might have something for you:
We are building an open platform of protocols and languages for creating currencies that will give birth to the next economy. This suite of tools will allow every human being and every community to build and share wealth the way they need by means of free currencies:
The MetaCurrency project is building the standards, language, platforms
The flowplace project is building the spaces where these free currencies will flow
We have begun implementing these projects. Various tools and protocols already running and progressing, being tested and improved every day, but this is not enough. We believe this next economy will completely change our way of building and exchanging wealth. To make it accessible to more people, more people need to get involved; so we invite you to join and help us building and constructing this next world together.
…
The Event : Meet the geeks
We will use a Livestream channel to explore the topics of "open data", "open transport" and "open rules" which are the basic components of the metacurrency project. We will watch some videos and chat live with the metacurrency team to answer your questions and update you in our current edge and projects status. We will also speak with TheTransitioner team to explore the concept of the flowplace and provide with the next steps you can take if you decide to join us.
Bummer I probably can't join, but would love to have a Future Salon around democratic currencies.
Collaborator's Dilemma Future Salon on Thursday 17th of September 6pm at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. Please RSVP http://budurl.com/6qx6
Many of you don't know that I am one of the people that built the very vibrant SAP Community Network: 1.8 million members and ~7000 posts per day in the forums.
When we started 6 years ago, very few people saw the power of community, collaboration or co-creation. The big advantage for us was, that we had a lot of freedom to experiment and try things out: Blogs, Wiki, point system, face to face meetings, while expanding our reach outside as well as within SAP.
By now the world has awoken to the opportunity that an active community brings with it, even though I believe we are just scratching the surface of the possibilities.
What we have done was mostly grassroots. Yes, we had a mandate from the board to create a developer community, but not one to apply the community advantages to all aspects of the business.
This is why I am so happy about this months' Future Salon speaker Nilofer Merchant. She has almost finished her book: The New How Building Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy.
How do you best run your company with the new realities of collaboration and co-creation? That question and many more will be answered this Thursday the 17th at the Collaborator's Dilemma Future Salon.
In 2004 and 2005 I helped John Smart organize the Accelerating Change Conferences. At both of them Ray Kurzweil gave the keynote. (In 2004 Ray tried to be present via hologram from New York, but the technology wasn't there yet and we ended up with a conference call.)
His prediction is, that within the next 20 years, technology will accelerate to a point, where the computational power of computers will surpass human intelligence: The Singularity. Check his presentation at Google from 2 months ago, if you want to get his latest insights.
Vishal is one of the smartest people at SAP and instead of accelerating change and hockey sticks he looked at our lessons learned from 30 years of enterprise software development and derived the concept of timeless software from it.
In a couple of hours (Wednesday 9th 2pm PST) Vishal and Ray will do a live video conversation that you shouldn't miss.
According to some calculations, about 50% of the worlds GDP touches at least one SAP system, that gives us a unique perspective on what is going on at enterprises worldwide.
Yes, technology is accelerating, but the complexity of our systems that are running our companies is accelerating as well. Not sure which one has the upper hand.
I also can't shake the feeling that Mitch Kapor may be right, who called the notion of a technological singularity "intelligent design for the IQ
140 people...This proposition that we're heading to this point at which
everything is going to be just unimaginably different—it's
fundamentally, in my view, driven by a religious impulse. And all of
the frantic arm-waving can't obscure that fact for me.
Rumor has it, that the live twitter stream will be integrated into the video conversation. Tweet with you there soon.
Collaborator's Dilemma Future Salon on Thursday 17th of September 6pm at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. Please RSVP http://budurl.com/6qx6
Abstract: Just as Clayton Christensen highlights The
Innovator's Dilemma, we must identify and name The Collaborator's Dilemma to
describe the way we create—or fail to create—strategies that work.
Organizations, and the people within in them want to tap the talents of their
people, generate lots of great ideas and have everyone co-own the solution.
But we don’t do that. We instead have an “air sandwich” between the
executives and others.
Collaboration can fill that gap I call an Air
Sandwich: the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy up
in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the floor. Where
there should be connective pieces between the vision and the reality, in an Air
Sandwich the filling consists mainly of misunderstandings, confusions, and
disinformation. It is that Air Sandwich which prevents us from
winning.
This session explains how this problem is fixable if one is
willing to reinvent their firm to win. Discussion will center on the future of
work and organizations and how collaboration will play out in 5, 10, 15 years.
You may remember Joe Quirk presenting the very funny 
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