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UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

Assume your staff are idiots and treat them like children who need rules/structure, and you'll get rebellious children and oppressive rules.

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2/16/2015

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

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Worse: throw children employees into a lord-of-the-flies situation, and your culture might become a self-destructive dominance hierarchy.

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2/16/2015

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

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Our society is raising children in daycares. Buck the trend and de-program this mentality, and your organization will unlock greatness.

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2/16/2015

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

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Re: children; It takes a village. If everyone is customer service, why not have everyone be HR, and everyone be part of training? Permeate.

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2/16/2015

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

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One of the biggest obstacle preventing organizations from engaging employees: the leaders see themselves as nannys, not servants.

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2/16/2015

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

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The nanny state mindset permeates the entirety of western civilization. From our schools, to our jobs, to our government.

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2/16/2015

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

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Changing Nanny-State Culture:1) Believe in people.2 a) Engineer habitats.2 b) shift students to teachers.3) Get folk onboard.4) Goto 1.

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2/16/2015

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Alan Watts saw problem, and perhaps even saw root cause. But did he ever look at the system that perpetuates it?https://t.co/rj3QpG3Zl1

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 10 years ago

"animated clip made by Trey Parker & Matt Stone featuring a small segment of an Alan Watts lecture." https://t.co/ZBslWxVYe1

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7/3/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Carrot and Stickhttps://t.co/Rd73xjn5lu

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Work ethic and the more ideologicallly oriented beliefs of capitalism are rooted in calvinism?https://t.co/Pkkr6krV8I

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7/3/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Carrot and Stickhttps://t.co/l4N6ZgFcte

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

“... get people to take actions which are against their self-interest in a predictable way without the use of force” https://t.co/rbwvbCo8cc

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7/3/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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Carrot and Stickhttps://t.co/ytEcWFhtRi

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

"This pattern, in turn, confirms supervisors’ beliefs in the need for incentives. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy." https://t.co/rrKUpCPMjF

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7/3/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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"stuffed in narrow confines based on job descriptions, ranking, and where they sit on the organizational chart." https://t.co/DnGPWRQfwZ

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7/4/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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s/employees/constituents/https://t.co/jm9sLSTZOp

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

One of the biggest obstacle preventing organizations from engaging employees: the leaders see themselves as nannys, not servants.

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7/4/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

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s/political/organizational/ihttps://t.co/i5mqbfIKZF

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7/4/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Are we dullards, raised from youth to look busy? Is it any wonder we find little meaning in our lives? Hikikomorihttps://t.co/jxgGs0lXYE https://t.co/C9NDI9s4VK

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10/5/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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"The devil finds work for idle hands to do." - https://t.co/piXWiiMPHy

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10/5/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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"…optimal strategy, in this game, is to choose what you think the minimum will be amongst the rest and choose that"https://t.co/66EjvXrqEV

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10/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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"[tech] of coordination have developed tremendously, potentially allowing us to innovate new organizational forms."https://t.co/LdqrZBdQCk

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10/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Employees as investors seeking return on attention within a heavily regulated multi-sided market favoring firms. https://t.co/heyN0FDuwm

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

If the best businesses invest in their people... Why don't Angel investors just cut out the middleman and invest in people too?

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10/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Tl:DR; We should invest in people, platforms that help people, and teaching everyone to perpetuate the mindset.https://t.co/qqWR5lWgWX https://t.co/Stf6Zi4EuL

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10/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Persist local: paternalism culture.Perpetuate at scale: nanny-state society.System feedback: Coordination problem. https://t.co/bAl1PEP4yK

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

Assume your staff are idiots and treat them like children who need rules/structure, and you'll get rebellious children and oppressive rules.

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10/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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"This idea is almost unheard of in our capitalistic mindset–in the 5o’s, it may well have labeled me a communist."https://t.co/qm29vS1UEB https://t.co/YyuF2I6J9J

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10/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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"...how complex adaptive systems can be explored using methods ranging from mathematics to computational models"https://t.co/ihUluhiNi6 https://t.co/jt12ButQfp

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10/6/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻https://t.co/gN4upqLnxq

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

It is sometimes an appropriate response to narrative to go insane.

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10/7/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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At a metalevel, pets have become tool for society to teach cultural orientation toward hierarchy? Restating thread: https://t.co/EQadnrEC5g

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10/12/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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This kills the Innovation..."Asking difficult questions or thinking in greater depth is seen as a dangerous waste."https://t.co/cquoyAUvnv https://t.co/rYzFU4MBSh

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10/25/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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How do we change culture?What creates culture?Stories guide our lives & shape personalities?The games we play...?https://t.co/yp1GSgq2cB

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Pans Narrans Ludens Ludum:The game playing, story telling, chimpanzee.

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10/25/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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How do we change culture?Narrative Violation...https://t.co/9Zhnvo8LOa

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

@ultimape (my answer: stigmergic story building, curiosity, combined with a teaching/learning mindset shared among like-minded peers.)

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10/25/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

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Narratives as shapes vibrating in sand, positioning themselves among the collective chorus of thought.https://t.co/HKIVZa23Qe

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

It's interesting to Model the game we are playing as shapes vibrating in a bucket of sand.https://t.co/sds7HL5XyG

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10/25/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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“Why I only work remotely” — @yanismydj https://t.co/Hll8Gcnk6w https://t.co/mMPLJLkHtv

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12/31/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"lie not in an examination of organization charts but largely in […] informal social networks and how they emerge."https://t.co/KKDxob6UyG https://t.co/oJ6XUktYZf

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12/31/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"Conflict management works best when the parties involved in a disagreement are equipped to manage it themselves."https://t.co/qvFopkFErH https://t.co/kS0cNBawr0

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12/31/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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How do we build a better world?https://t.co/71JBGCsp5N https://t.co/DR0NBiiEp3

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12/31/2016

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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When you see a connection with a 2x2 ( ref:https://t.co/7Mm80NAnSI ) https://t.co/6pD0ig9qNU https://t.co/OnNlMl9utL

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

"lie not in an examination of organization charts but largely in […] informal social networks and how they emerge."https://t.co/KKDxob6UyG https://t.co/oJ6XUktYZf

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1/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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When that 2x2 describe mechanisms allowing for orgs to operate effectively... and it reminds you on an old tweet:https://t.co/TQKbVrrc35

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

The genes assoc w/ altruism seem to encode for the nuerochemicals that @simonsinek talks about here: https://t.co/ptbI0waVpP amazing!

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1/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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When you remember a tweet from 2 years ago on the same topic:https://t.co/cprEW9NDME

UltimApe@ultimape• over 10 years ago

5/ Which suggests thatIf You Don't Understand People, You Don't Understand Business - https://t.co/Tdxi2AfpK2 - @simonsinek

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1/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Thank you for making meaning with me here on twitter.https://t.co/mzixEvcfRz https://t.co/B0XgilzT8J

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2/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/mGnFjlsAnN

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

A better way to look at this is by questioning level of risk / freedom you take on in any given working arrangement. https://t.co/UtkFHggxPd

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2/9/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/M6VhWnYztO

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

Meta-commentary: this congressional guide was pub'd ~2 months before Snowden. "Value neither privacy nor freedom."https://t.co/aSTTIFd9pE

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2/9/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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The conflicting nature of our institutional growth seems rooted in the origin of our society: https://t.co/mxHeQuAhXA

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Conflict in perceptions of what it means to be free is rooted in way united states evolved: https://t.co/WdJPPYUjHQ https://t.co/TXPPTJzkdu

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2/9/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Historical glitches manifesting as echos of a misguided past.You can't get there from here?https://t.co/Rsukw3kbbT https://t.co/dPI344qDa3

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2/21/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Life: Layers of self perpetuating systems.https://t.co/SwL7RvBB1S

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Sometimes, read comments?"Getting dogs to act like cats, because the group needs more cat-like members than it has"https://t.co/yOh3sMQMXA https://t.co/o7UDAv4cI7

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9/13/2017