Month: October 2008
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Code Blue: Swift Trust and Team Dynamics of a Crash Cart Response
Swift Trust, much like it sounds, is the concept of rapidly coming to intra-team trust. A doctor friend of mine who introduced me to the term, explained it with the context of the ad hoc team of MDs and nurses responding to a cardiac arrest, a code blue. I have been thinking about this throughout…
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A brief history of communication
A breif History of communication from ljudbilden on Vimeo. Yes, it’s an ad, but who can say no to stop-motion history? [via neatorama]
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What we can learn about social networks from contract law
I am big fan of looking to outside fields for ideas and expertise. Case-in-point: I recently came across a reference to a great study about contract law – when people rely on the contract for enforcement during the course of business, and when they don’t. Hint: they usually don’t; they rely on the relationship. Translating…
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Bernanke: Individual power increases network risk
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank will consider discarding its long- standing aversion to interfering with asset-price bubbles and warned that the banking business may be concentrated in too few companies. Sounds familiar.
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Bailouts: Understanding Risk in a Networked Economy
Individual power increases network risk. When the power goes, so does the network. But, this risk can also mobilize everyone else to buoy up the network by supporting the powerful (AIG rescue) or group cooperation (bailout lobbying). When a power fails, there will be painful redistribution of wealth (Lehman Brothers) and the market as new…