Member: Arjan Postma

There is a big difference between management and leadership, although I would prefer to qualify both as positions on a continuum. Management is about maintenance and leadership about making a difference—those are two different formulas. Both are needed for healthy growth.

On the one hand, there is authoritative leadership that has been traditionally based on either position (being a manager, general, minister) or on exclusive access to knowledge. Information and…

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We have always liked to engage with several indy media initiatives to study the network-effect of blurring boundaries; for example between the media themselves, between professionals and amateurs, between on- and off air and off- and online. Today the project Pandemic 1.0 is being launched, a Lance Weiler production where we experimented with our story-morphology theories. Since recent findings show us that the future of media is not necessarily about a clash between the…

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Herman Wijffels recently commented on our co-publication about responsbility, named after the famous google credo: Don't be Evil: "We need to shift form a mechanical-pyramid based organisations towards a more network-inspired culture, social networks. The world is not just moving towards peak-oil but moreover peak-everything! Our economy needs to drastically change not to benefit only from the resources the world is supplying us but what the… →

Yesterday I came across the new 3D-bus as Chinese Designers Youzhou calls this new public transportation model looks. It is a bus shaped like a tunnel which spans the highway. It can use traditional (two-way lanes). It's 4m high with two levels: passengers board on the upper level while other vehicles lower than 2 m can go through under. Powered by electricity and solar energy, loading on each dock to get to the next stop. The bus can speed up to 60…

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