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Jon Husband

Listener, strategist, facilitator and change agent interested in how hyperlinks, passion, energy and minds are changing institutions, societies and the world.

I coined the term "wirearchy" in 1999 after twenty years helping design corporate hierarchies, ten years of paying attention to the impact of IT on work / process design, and five years of slowly beginning to understand what impacts the Web might have over the longer term.

I was also strongly impacted by reading 1) "Beyond The Information Revolution" by Peter Drucker, 2) "Future Perfect", by Stan Davis and 3) "Rewiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations", by Dana Zohar. There are many other OD, science and philosophy books that have had a heavy influence, as well as the life experience of working in and consulting to large corporations that by and large structure the innovation, creativity and passion out of most people, for all the reasons that we know.

Power and Control at the Edge(s) of the 21st Century
Hierarchy and Wirearchy - Five Questions and One Belief

The Web provides a new set of conditions for how humans exchange, store, retrieve and use information. There have already been massive impacts on established power structures and we're barely a decade into personal publishing yet.

"First, we shape our structures .. then, our structures shape us"

The major patterns are apparent now. The territory, the major forces and players are known ... DRM, Identity, Net Neutrality, censorship, etc. As we move from traditional top-down structures to life in a constantly-shifting networked world, how .. and why .. will we organize ?

This will be an audience - based discussion with minimal Powerpoint intervention ... just a bit to set and sustain context.

 
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  • comment in: Power and Control at the Edge(s) of the 21st Century - Hierarchy and Wirearchy

    Shape shifting, soul changing

    Jeneane and I were skyping tonight, and she was yakking about writing on the web etc. She brought up David W.'s "writing ourselves ...

    Jon Husband 23 May 07, 00:52
  • comment in: Theoretical Man

    Not too sure ..

    about the "we are all one culture" either, but I think I understand in a metaphysical sense. I suppose I see a paradox ...

    Jon Husband 21 May 07, 07:35