Comments on: Business, more like open source software

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:14:27 +0000

Hi Nathaniel, great tip on Wikinomics. I’ve been hearing about this book but I’m excited to hear that some of the contents are relevant to our interests in open source. Thanks for stopping by!

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:53:24 +0000

Hey, great post and a great site. I wanted to drop a line because I too recently read Mavericks and another and another even newer book, Wikinomics, in quick succession. Wikinomics covers a lot of the same issues but goes far more in-depth about the collaborative business model and potential implications and applications. It’s a much more academic read than Mavericks, but great information none the less.

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Yankee Wombat | An American in Oz — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:46:54 +0000

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By: Chris Bailey

Chris Bailey — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:44:31 +0000

Hi Julian, by the sheer joys of the blogosphere I tumbled down the rabbit hole (started here, visited here, finished here) and found your post and site. Your thoughts on open source as an inter-business activity has nudged me a bit closer to piecing together my own puzzle for building intra-business activity. Thinking of our own workplaces and organizational tasks (think: meetings, documentation), they still tend to be overly prescribed and processed affairs. The problem seems to be that organizations strive for the holy grail that's efficiency which is marked by clean, straight lines. Open source seems to introduce chaos and messiness, two concepts that leave most business execs quaking in their wingtips. I'm still not entirely sure where to go with these ideas, but I'm positively jazzed about some of the experiments I'm thinking about trying out in my own work. No doubt I'll share them at my own site.

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:58:12 +0000

Hi Ben, thanks for stopping by. I'm glad you brought up Mavericks at Work because I've heard good things about it and a couple months back Shannon picked up a copy. I started reading it about a month ago, got distracted by another great book, and now you've given me new inspiration to pick it back up again! By the way, the book that interrupted Mavericks at Work is called (let me take a deep breath) An Army of Davids, how markets and technology empower ordinary people to beat big media, big government and other Goliaths by famed blogger and Law Professor Glenn Reynolds. An Army of Davids is a lot about how individuals, afloat in the free market, have created truly ground breaking change in industry, media, politics and science. If you, or other readers of this post haven't picked this one up yet, I would strongly encourage you to do so. For me, it's on to Mavericks.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:28:16 +0000

One of my fav recent reads, Mavericks at Work, has a ton of great examples of how the Open Source concept is being applied in a variety of business situations. As one of the ‘Mavericks’ in the book said (and I’m paraphrasing since I don’t have the book in front of me), Why limit yourself to only those who you can hire in your backyard when you can leverage talent from around the world? The examples provided in this book have incredible implications for the future of work globally.

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:47:24 +0000

Thanks Bob. Hey, don’t you owe Shannon and I a ride in an R.V. or something? Give me a ring when you have a a spare moment next week so we can finalize those plans for a South Florida get together. Did you make it to Taluncon? Always a pleasure to hear from you.
-Cheers

By: Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:41:52 +0000

Fantastic post Julian!!

Bob

By: Evolving Ideas

Evolving Ideas — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Business, more like open source software. And I say brilliant, because he goes beyond the metaphor and process of open source, and its relevance to business– and brings out the fear that holds most people back from going that way. And for the fearless, the brave and the wise who do want to

By: Talent Unconference

Talent Unconference — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Gerry posted a comment on the blog while he was sitting in the big session. That is really cool, especially since getting the wireless arrangements set up was such a pain. I hope more people take advantage of that. And I love Julian’s post over at EXCELER8ion

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