Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
…and then Machiavelli suggested opengov and radical transparency
Alex Schellong and I wrote down a longer conversation we have been having over the years and published it in the Harvard International Review: The evolution of modern society is marked by continuous rise of government size, obligations and market … Continue reading
When in doubt, move to the meta level
Martin Reeves and his team at the Boston Consulting Group Strategy Institute have been working hard to regain BCG’s position as the world’s foremost strategic thinkers. A tough nut to crack in a time of uncertainty (world economic crisis) and … Continue reading
Whither the Book?
over the last 20 years, we have internalized Marshall McLuhan’s insight “the medium is the message:” whenever somebody comes up with something, we jump on the bandwagon and reduce our thinking to 140-character-aphorisms, even as, cultural critics are lamenting the … Continue reading
A Revolution in 140 Characters? The Interplay of Social Networking, Mass Media, and Revolutionary Politics
By: Florian Buhl, Sophie van Huellen, Philipp Müller Two hours after the polls had closed on June 12, 2009 the re-election of the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was officially announced. Soon thereafter the supporters of Iran’s opposition, especially those of … Continue reading
Culture, Politics, and our Networked Lifeworlds
By: Philipp Mueller and Violetta Pleshakova In 2010, it has become a truism that culture, lifeworlds, and our political economies are transforming. It is obvious that the Web is impacting society, bringing in new lifestyles, attitudes, values, work patterns and … Continue reading
State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards
Just in time for the EU minsterial conference in Malmö, John Gotze brought together some of the most prominent thought leaders, including Don Tapscott, Tim O’Reilly and Lawrence Lessig, in the emerging field of Government 2.0 (“thinking government as a … Continue reading
The Soundtrack of German Reunification
Guest-Blog by Ralf Leiteritz (now an international relations professor at the Universidad de los Andes). …on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall I’ve come to think about my old country again. Seeing a … Continue reading
What do Political Theorists think about Sequoia publishing the Source Code of its Voting System?
As history unfolds it is often hard to distinguish the truly historical from the incidental. As someone who has lived through German reunification 20 years ago these days, I can attest to that. But the absence of political theorists following … Continue reading
Adaptive Advantages and Deliverology
The trend in 2009 is to argue that in times of crisis, strategy needs to be more attuned to the changing realities of an organizations environment. As Stefan Stern argues in the FT: At BCG, Reeves and Deimler has produced … Continue reading
Evangelizing Distributed Leadership
Distributed leadership is still a new concept, even though it sometimes seems that most of what we do is building robust and resilient communities of like-minded individuals that are willing to be engaged in the value creation process, even though … Continue reading
