Comments on: Don’t create a company, create an ecosystem

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By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:06:08 +0000

I think you're spot on. Figuring out how to engage people and be flexible enough to get the maximum value out of new contributors will definitely be a key asset. Best practices will be in terms of how to engage and share; best practices will not be “this is exactly how to do it”.

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:06:08 +0000

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:06:08 +0000

By: Igniter

Igniter — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:27:54 +0000

Thanks for this conversation. My thoughts are just emerging on this now.

I think best practices are valueable for documenting and sharing how
things have been done. I also think that what we are moving toward is
about engaging people with unique contribtuons to make vs. trying to
import best practices. It's about engaging human capital vs.
Intellectual capital and will be more common the more fluid the
organization or project is in terms of collaborators (peer producers).

Heh - interesting the think through this out loud. Thoughts?

By: Igniter

Igniter — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:27:54 +0000

By: Igniter

Igniter — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:27:54 +0000

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:41:25 +0000

More natural, more transparent, more “real”… or at least I hope.

Does it make sense to say that “good enough” for “right now” lends to a more fluid organization, more shifting, more fluid, less “company” and more “collective”?

But doesn't that also mean there needs to be more “best practices” or “understood rules for coordination” to reduce interpersonal, intracompany transaction costs for organizing activity? Or does the Internet and the increasingly passive, ambient, asynchronous nature of communication such a better platform for organizing activity that codified best practices are no longer as necessary?

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:41:25 +0000

More natural, more transparent, more “real”… or at least I hope.

Does it make sense to say that “good enough” for “right now” lends to a more fluid organization, more shifting, more fluid, less “company” and more “collective”?