[IxDA Discuss] Tog talks about iPhone

[Esteban Barahona]

Gore? Al Gore? I saw "An Awful Truth" and he should be president of the USA
instead of the escuse of a human USA has now as "president"... presidents
aren't really needed, people are afraid to try to live peacefully in an
anarchic state. They fear anarchy. They don't get anarchy.

I have embraced Chaos, and flat human hierarchies (no one is the "boss",
interactions happen naturally).

2007/1/18, Oleh Kovalchuke <tangospring at gmail.com>:
>
> "Culture over strategy" - Amen.
>
> Drucker also said (correctly) that the reason for existense of corporation
> is profit, morals do not enter into it (see 'The Corporation' for one
> reference). Of course he also noted that for corporation to last it needs to
> attract good people, most of whom _are_ moral, hence corporation needs
> higher goals and bloated PR departments.
>
> Besides military Gore Associates uses the less than 150 number as well as
> undefined flat hierarchy to build flexible, human size company:
> http://www.commonsenseadvice.com/human_cortex_dunbar.html
>
> --
> Oleh Kovalchuke
> Interaction Design is Design of Time
> http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm
>
>
>
>
> On 1/17/07, Mark Schraad <mschraad at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > If you're a Peter Drucker fan you will be familiar with this notion. I
> > will try and paraphrase as accurately as I can remember... profit is must
> > have and should be a given in any company (table stakes?), but the "purpose"
> > must be someting greater.
> >
> > We have known since the Roman Empire that there is an optimal size, no
> > greater than 150 people for executing efficiently and effectively. In this
> > context, culture is critical. I will nearly always put culture over
> > strategy... it is far more powerful.
> >
> >
> > >World-Wide Corporations doesn't have a culture.
> > >It's a waste of human resources to live for profit. And that's the
> > >pseudo-culture of WW Corporations.
> >
> >
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