Last week a friend emailed me the following: "Hi Bryan, "How are you doing? "Just wondering, a friend of mine at work was pretty ticked off at you for a show of yours she listened to this weekend. She said that you were saying that Fox [N]ews fans are delusional, and that you didn't reference what people should be watching or listening to … [Read more...]
How Information Grows
August 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Information grows differently than industry or agriculture. Thus hundreds of years of understanding about how to grow Industrial-Age businesses doesn't really apply to many Information Age endeavors. Indeed, some of the lessons of how to grow a farm in the Agricultural Age didn't necessarily translate to Industrial Age corporate growth, … [Read more...]
Great Education in the Internet Age
August 16, 2010 by 1 Comment
As the old saying goes, “Leaders are Readers.” This has proven true generation after generation, and is still the reality today. But there is a significant difference in the leadership value in different types of reading. For example, few would doubt that there is a difference in benefits between reading the following items: a technical … [Read more...]
Socialization: What Does It Lead To?
August 12, 2010 by 2 Comments
The desire to “fit in” is fundamental to human nature and society. We enjoy being with people that we have much in common with; it brings comfort, security, familiarity, and gives us the sense that we are right about things. However, this desire can lead down a path that will take us away from where we want to go. In Leo Tolstoy’s novel … [Read more...]
Type of Tribes, Part 5: The Future of New Tribes
July 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This is part 5 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 4 Here Few people realize how widespread the New Tribe revolution has become. The many examples of online New Tribes show how rapidly this trend is growing. But there is even more to it than that. One cycle of business growth says that … [Read more...]
Type of Tribes, Part 4: Level Four Tribes
July 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This is part 4 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here The sixth type of tribe is the Information-Age Tribe. We are all still struggling for the perfect name. The term “e-tribe” is too narrow, since many of the new relationships are not online. I’ll settle for calling them the New Tribes, and let the … [Read more...]
Type of Tribes, Part 3: Level Three Tribes
June 30, 2010 by 1 Comment
This is part 3 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Indeed, by the 1990s America was deeply into the Industrial Age. Industrial tribes (no longer really Tribes, but rather tribes, small “t”) were built around career. People left the farms, and the communities which connected them, for economic opportunities in the … [Read more...]
Type of Tribes, Part 2: Level Two Tribes
June 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This is part 2 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Agrarian Tribes began, as Ken Wilber describes it, when we stopped planting with sticks and hoes and turned to plows drawn by beasts of burden. The change is significant in at least two major ways: First, pregnant women can plant, tend and harvest with sticks and hoes, but often not with … [Read more...]
Type of Tribes, Part 1: Level One Tribes
June 28, 2010 by 1 Comment
This is part 1 of a 5-part article. Subsequent segments will be published daily. NEARLY ALL OF THE WEAKNESSES I listed here are found in many traditional tribal cultures. In our day new kinds of tribes are emerging with huge potential influence, power and popularity. Indeed, the 21st Century may be the era where tribes become the most … [Read more...]
Things You Don’t Talk About In Polite Company
June 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
In 2002 President George W. Bush said, “The public education system . . . is where children from all over America learn to be responsible citizens, and learn to have the skills necessary to take advantage of our fantastic opportunistic society.” At first blush this is just a gaffe, Freudian in my opinion. But there is much that is more of … [Read more...]
