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Many of the unexpected uses of communications tools are surprising because our old beliefs about human nature were so lousy.

Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

The value and ethics of OD:

Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR

If, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view, applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don't privilege one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can roll up to something which is of va... See more

Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags

Conway’s Law doesn’t leave anyone guessing about how to make organizational communication structures work for the greater good. As the conclusion of Conway’s paper states: We have found a criterion for the structuring of design organizations: a design effort should be organized according to the need for communication.

Tomasz Jaskula • Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon))

Like Steven Spear describing the Toyota environment as a community of scientists in The High-Velocity Edge, an organization that only Plans and Does can never really improve.

John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future

hierarchical structures are a poor choice for multistakeholder collaborations. By holding on to control, the people at the top of hierarchies limit the self-organizing potential of the rest of the system.

David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change

“broken windows theory” of disorder within neighborhoods.

Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse

The progressive homogenization of personalities and personal relationships cannot be stemmed without a retooling of society.

Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality

It is also a broader cultural sensibility composed out of the steady drip-drip of bureaucratic acts, a loose constellation of practices and postures that is diffused throughout society via the legal and executive branches of the modern state. In short, suspicion is less heroic and more humdrum and routinized than we might think.