Ming the Mechanic
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Friday, November 29, 2002day link 
 Compliance or Creation
Peter Kaminski via Seb mentions:
Whoosh: Business in the Fast Lane,Tom McGehee on what makes a company suck or rock:

Compliance CompaniesCreation Companies
Policy drivenPrinciple driven
Rule basedRelationship based
Conducts training

Allows for structured and unstructured learning

Forced organizationSelf-organizing
ReactiveProactive
Good of organization over good of individualGood of organization through good of individuals
Measures activityMeasures outcome
OrderedChaotic
Closed systemOpen system
PatternedEmergent
Internal focusExternal focus
Risk avoidanceOpportunity creation
Confuses models with realityUnderstands modeling
Tries to re-create past successTries to create new successes
Methodology basedModel based
Expert's mindBeginner's mind
Tolerates diversityThrives on diversity
Seeks equilibriumSeeks progress
Deficit focusedPositive focused
Creates burning platformsCreates compelling opportunities

Application to national governments or revolutionary organizations is left as an exercise for the reader.
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 Tara Temple
picture An enormous underground temple has been discovered under the Hill of Tara in Ireland, dated apparently from 2500 to 2300 B.C.. It was once surrounded by 300 towering oak posts and lies directly underneath the hill. It is a site that already has revealed many archaeological finds, but nothing of this magnitude.
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 Progress in quantum computing
New Scientist reports some progress in quantum computing. In short, as opposed to normal computers that use bits that can be either on or off, quantum computing uses 'qubits' that can be in several states at once. That opens the door to the rather magical possibility of finding all solutions to a given problem at the same time. Practical applications appear to be far off. The current progress concerned the ability to keep one atom away from interferance, while still being able to read what state it is in.
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 Technorati
technorati.com is the best site I've seen sofar for showing who links to who's weblogs. Well, mainly I'm interested in who links to what on MY log, mostly to see which stories worked well, and to discover new friends who are exploring similar topics. The other sites that attempt to show connections between weblogs have sofar not shown me much more than I already knew, but in my technorati listing I right away get to know some new people. And it is great that in this world, plagiarism is flattery. And a way of voting. I copy somebody else's story, and somebody else copies my copy, and that shows that all of us found it important and interesting.
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