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The Serendipity Machine

Mills Scofield

Sebastian, an organization hacker, is the author of The Serendipity Machine - the inspiring story of the highly innovative, international coworking network Seats2meet.com. So Seats2meet.com invented a currency for nonmonetary, nontransactional exchange, aptly calling it social capital. Yes, you can orchestrate serendipity!!

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Is There A Sweet Spot For Digital Connectivity To Work After Hours?

The Horizons Tracker

This isn’t a problem just at holiday time, of course, as digital technology allows work to creep into our personal lives all year round. After a month had passed, they then completed a questionnaire that was designed to measure social capital development at work.

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Wraparound Support Is Key To Ensuring An Equitable And Fair Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

It was a time in which there was a lot of innovation around new educational opportunities, but early evidence showed that most consumers of these opportunities were those already well placed to cope with the changes being seen across society. Social capital. Providing support.

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Is The Period Of Global Economic Growth At An End?

The Horizons Tracker

A paper from the UC Santa Barbara argues that this growth is due to a combination of the technologies of the Industrial Revolutions and the various economic and political freedoms we have enjoyed as democracy has spread. While there have been undoubted ebbs and flows, the last century has seen growth in GDP like never before.

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Work Together or Fail Alone

Coaching Tip

Since all the work in every organization is done through relationships, it makes great sense to utilize technology to allow people to connect and collaborate easily and effectively. A new generation of laboratory architecture has tried to make chance encounters more likely to take place, and this trend has spread in the business world.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.