I listened to about 3 hours of Canadian radio on my two drives between Calgary International Airport and Banff. I found two great stations - x92.9 and 93.7 - that I happily toggled between. A catchy song played on 92.9 and I had now way to write down the name of the song or the artist, but I did dictate one of the lyrics into my phone. When I got home, I posted a message on Twitter asking about it and was delighted to get a response almost immediately. I then bought the album. This was a really easy engagement that connected the listener, the artist, and the mediator in mutually beneficial ways. I got to listen to a song I liked and discover additional great music, the artist benefited from a purchase of their work, and the station modeled the attention they are paying to listeners.
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Steve shared with me an article about an effort being led by the entrepreneur Sean Parker to make research and data sharing more accessible and efficient to leading institutions doing cancer research, specifically immunotherapy. It's a great non-edu example of making a move to unlock shared knowledge without needing to try and invent something completely new. It is yet to be seen how Mr. Parker's new institute will advance cancer research, but it certainly is an effort that resonates with our third belief.
I may have already posted a variation on this excerpt at some point this year, but as I am preparing a session on meetings for the uLead conference in Banff, Calgary (CA) next week I thought it was a helpful foundation. We have all been in a meeting that could have been handled through email. And we have all been part of an email chain that, due to its complexity and nuance, really should have been handled in a face-to-face (F2F) meeting. A professional indexer has put together a list of terms, organizations, and people mentioned throughout the book. Here is a preview:
What looks like a distracted and fragmented world of work gains clarity when you understand the simple credo that drives it: blended leaders believe that connected brains are more powerful than unconnected brains, that more brains are better than fewer when solving complex problems or dealing with a world, technological or otherwise, that changes constantly. While doing a post-typeset review of the book, I found a missing comma. The section where it is contained is a fun one. Comma was added in the paste below. With a quick search of a Google Group he belongs to, Reshan can find more than five years worth of documented knowledge gaps in the form of requests for help to do the job he was technically being paid to do. Participating in such a forum may seem like a risk, because he was simultaneously exposing these gaps and requests for help to people who may be future bosses or who may someday be competing for the same job as he is. We just got the proof of the typeset version of the book. It looks really great. Steve and I will be scanning it with a fine-toothed comb and then soon we'll see the first physical prototype.
At the end of each chapter, Steve and I have included things to try based on the ideas shared in that chapter. One is an offline thing, one is an online thing, and the other is a blended thing. These can be acts tested/performed by the reader, or perhaps the reader can lead others the tasks as they dive into the concepts we are trying to uncover..
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