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by Ross at 10:05AM (EDT) on October 21, 2004 | Permanent Link

gapingvoid: "The trouble corporations have with blogging is that it's easy. People who work in large companies are used to making everything as complicated and unknowable as possible, in order to protect the perceived value of what they do. Doing something that is cheap, easy and effective is culturally counter-intuitive."

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Re: More on corpocracy...

by jonh on Thu 21 Oct 2004 11:28 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Indeed. And developing a more open, flexible, responsive organization culture would cost about 1/10th or less of what all sorts of high-priced consultants might ... they who would be called in to entreat execs to treat employees more like adults, listen, tell the *truth*, etc.

Just give 'em blogs. As many bloggers know, sheer idiocy or flamers or people without anything useful to say are well-managed by the dynamics of blogging ... and so those who want to work, want to do things more effectively, actually enjoy being responsive to customers and so on ... and who will speak truth to power (which incidentally is the first half of the equation of effective and authentic leadership ... the second part being honestly listening and responding) will continue to work, and will make blogs an effective part of a workplace defined by the use of information and the construction and distribution of useful knowledge.

It's an adult-to-adult thing.

Re: More on corpocracy...

by Ross on Thu 21 Oct 2004 12:03 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

"It's an adult-to-adult thing."

Then we're all screwed. It'll never happen! :)

Re: More on corpocracy...

by jonh on Fri 22 Oct 2004 09:00 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

You're probably right. Damn ;-)