fcaballero on Jun 11th 2007 Society
Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The tragedy of the commons is a type of social trap that involves a conflict over resources between individual interests and the common good. The term derives originally from a parable published by William Forster Lloyd in his 1833 book on population. It was then popularized and extended by Garrett Hardin in his 1968 Science essay “The Tragedy of the Commons”.[1] However, the theory itself is as old as Aristotle who said: “That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it”.
fcaballero on Jun 20th 2005 Bussiness, Society
HBS Working Knowledge: Career Effectiveness: Creating a Positive Professional Image
In today’s diverse workplace, your actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with professor Laura Morgan Roberts.
Source: HBS Working Knowledge
fcaballero on Jan 26th 2005 Bussiness, Innovation and Creativity, Society
HBS Working Knowledge: Innovation: Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
A “Robin Hood” cardiac hospital in India–which charges wealthy patients, yet equally welcomes the destitute–is an exciting example of entrepreneurship in the subcontinent, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna.
fcaballero on Aug 7th 2004 Bussiness, Community Building, Knowledge Management, Social Networks, Society, Weblogs
elise.com: On the Job: An Overview of the Weblog Tools Market
Weblogs, although often described as online diaries, are a much more interesting trend than that label would imply. Yes, weblogs are personal journals on the web, and as such they represent the breadth and depth of human interest and knowledge. Not only do blogs allow millions of people to easily and instantaneously publish ideas to websites, most weblogs incorporate interactive features that let others easily comment to those sites, thus transforming the static web into millions of dynamic conversations
fcaballero on Jun 23rd 2004 Knowledge Management, Society
Machiavelli’s work, the collection, formulation and organisation of lessons learned from the Roman Republic – knowledge management that is – has been highly influential in modern history. Il Principe seems to have been the favourite reading of both Napoleon and Stalin.
Machiavelli’s immoral reputation is largely undeserved.
Those who have studied the Discorsi alongside Il Principe know that Machiavelli’s only object of study was the effectiveness of political or military measures. Moral aspects of these measures were not taken into consideration. It is therefore unfair to say that Machiavelli’s work is immoral. Amoral is probably a better adjective.
fcaballero on Jun 1st 2004 Bussiness, Community Building, General, Psychology, Society
Individuals in higher-trust societies spend less to protect themselves from being exploited in economic transactions. Trust is an economical substitute for extensive contracts, litigation, and monitoring in transactions and thus economizes on transaction costs.
This quote taken from this paper, published by IBM, explain models of trust and reputation systems, Experimental Games for the design of reputation management systems
fcaballero on May 13th 2004 Community Building, Social Networks, Society, Weblogs
Participatory Democracy Networks
Oliver Sylvester-Bradley ha escrito una propuesta fantástica sobre democracia participativa basada en ideas tales como las redes sociales, las redes de proximidad y una nueva arquitectura de información basada en código libre, que soporte la interacción de individuos que pertenecen a un área geográfica determinada.
La idea es usar el poder del mundo virtual para cambiar el mundo real.