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| Meta-Leadership: Part IV |
| 2008-07-16 07:40:00 |
If we define Meta-Leadership, in part, as the ability to facilitate a change from a "static" environment to a "dynamic" environment, then this partial chart helps illustrate this point (click on the chart for a larger view)....
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| Meta - Leadership: Part II |
| 2008-06-24 10:14:00 |
We referenced a good article on "Meta - Leadership" in an earlier post.Although I'm not a big advocate for "leaders" being able to solve all our problems (I much prefer a broad based collaborative model, for all the reasons mentioned in the previous 250 posts), since we live in essentially a quasi-hierarchical model, leaders do have an important role in fostering collaboration and finding workable solutions.But who do we "hire" as leaders and what should their qualifications be?Well first, it would be an important asset to be someone who can find common attributes between concepts, ideas, organizations and people.What makes us similar? How can Group A assist Group B? How can I make the "situation" good for everyone? How ...
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| Long Island Referendum Cycle: Part Two |
| 2008-06-20 07:58:00 |
We've been advocating a more "dynamic" form of organization on Island">Long Island on this site (and since 1993) with a whole host of interconnected ideas.So why propose a referendum cycle?A cycle of referenda on major issues, either one per year or multiple per year, ensures that ideas, information and analysis are continually reviewed, updated and subject to public debate and modification.This cycle requires, even forces public participation and debate on the issues that govern Long Island.No issue can be "put on the shelf" for too long. Information is not allowed to get "stale.""Finger pointing" and the "blame game" will subside as citizens feel more "empowered" and less "dependent" on traditional forms of organization whi...
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| Collaborative Rationalism: Part One |
| 2008-06-09 11:33:00 |
Interesting article today on turning Long Island's downtowns into more interesting places to live and work.Contained in the article is this quote:“Everything is so interconnected, so you feel sometimes that you can’t fix anything until you fix everything,” said Mayor Ernest J. Strada of the village of Westbury, talking at one point about a zoning question, but really addressing a deeper issue — the lack of a central planning authority on Long Island, a problem that exists in many suburbs. Each of the more than 100 communities of Nassau and Suffolk Counties have zoning and planning agencies that govern development within their own borders."Also in the paper today is Nassau County's interest in redeveloping 105 acres it owns in Bethpage. Perhaps someone will propose a "cool downtown"...
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| Some excellent ideas ... |
| 2008-06-06 12:47:00 |
I just returned from New York Institute of Technology's "Sustainable Solutions for Converging Crises" conference.While all the presenters were excellent, two presenters in particular stood out as having great relevancy and potentially effective applications for Long Island.Project Better Place is a brilliant concept for the distribution of electric automobiles.Daniel Lerch of the Post Carbon Institute has written a very clearly thought out book regarding the energy crisis and its impact on public policy.Both sites are well worth your time and effort....
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| Long Island Next Generation Housing Referendum? |
| 2008-05-28 07:43:00 |
"Many LI leaders are present and accounted for here (only the first half-hour was available for preview), including Nancy Rauch Douzinas, president of the Rauch Foundation; Paul Pontieri Jr., mayor of Patchogue; Matt Crosson, Island">Long Island Association president (and co-host of Ch. 21's "Crosson and Welles"); Wayne Hall, mayor of Hempstead, and many others. Crosson, speaking tonight, sets the table with this thought: "Long Island is losing young people at the same time the baby boomer [retirement] tsunami is beginning, [and] we will be in serious trouble. ... The Island's economy depends on the availability of young people in the workforce, and if we don't have that, the cost of living goes even higher, and [business] gr...
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| SUNY Ideas ... |
| 2008-05-26 08:08:00 |
| "One argument that SUNY leaders make - and it will be easier to make the case once a new permanent chancellor is finally selected - is that public higher education is never more important than in tough economic times. For one thing, people losing jobs rely on SUNY schools for retraining. For another, the campuses - like Stony Brook, Farmingdale, Old Westbury, and the community colleges in Nassau and Suffolk here on Long Island - have a huge impact on the economy. So this is a bad time to slow that economic engine."Good editorial above on SUNY.As important is the need to restructure the way the state allows for the commercialization of research coming out of its system in a manner similar to California and other states.There is a treasure trove of great ideas
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| More progress ... I think ... |
| 2008-05-23 21:03:00 |
Some additional partially complete tunes for my new CD.Fool for PunishmentMost Unusual Turn of EventsAverage ManYes, I will finish all 14 of them this summer. I hope.Then on to the next group of 14 and the boxes of unrecorded stuff as well.May I can finish them all by the time I'm 84 or so if I don't compose anything else....
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| Long Island Independent Media Consortium: Part Two |
| 2008-05-22 08:05:00 |
So we have all these different organizations on Island">Long Island, all with varying degrees of technical expertise and many on different seemingly incompatible systems.What to do?They key to making this all work is to "build bridges" using a "common language."What do we mean by a common language? We mean giving Long Islanders the tools necessary to engage in productive, positive public discourse in a flexible, collaborative manner. These tools include all the Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 tools and concepts contained with One Long Island.Gee. we can't get all that done right now, so what can we do?Start simply. First get all web sites and blogs up to Web 2.0 standards. This may be as simple as adding an XML feed to your site or cre...
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| Prelude 3a |
| 2008-05-16 17:38:00 |
Just something else I've been working on here ...http://longislandideafactory.podomatic.com/entry/2008-05-16T15_30_56-07_00...
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| Long Island Independent Media Consortium: Part One |
| 2008-05-16 09:10:00 |
Another way to look at the recent Cablevision - Newsday "merger" and its effect on the diversity of content, advertising rates and a whole host of other issues, is as an opportunity to create a new business model for the delivery of media services on Island">Long Island.As we've stated many times previously, there are a ton of smart folks on Long Island with great ideas and relevant, informed opinions.It's really a shame to waste the intelligence and ingenuity of our own citizens and counterproductive to the future health of Long Island not to put these folks "to work."How about "Get the Whole Story at the Long Island Independent Media Consortium"?There ...
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| If you build it ... Part Two |
| 2008-05-13 09:55:00 |
So much of the news and information we receive is "bundled" and delivered from multiple sources.Those of us who use RSS/XML readers on a regular basis know that there is a universe of information out there to be delivered in virtual real time for those willing to do a little exploration.So if we were constructing a Long Island news and information "portal" or a series of collaborative "portals" what would we need to do?First of all, let's be clear. The news and information is already generated by us. We may pay others for a service to distribute it and analyze it, but we are the news and information. This is not to diminish what media folks do or a particular expertise they may bring to a particular subject, but without us they're out of business. Much as we elect representatives from the...
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| If you build it ... Part One |
| 2008-05-12 10:53:00 |
"Kevin Kamen, president of media appraisal firm Kamen & Co. Group Services in Baldwin, said in an email Monday morning that the deal will allow Cablevision "a clear channel opportunity to expand and cross sell advertising across multiple broad channels...and will generate great financial rewards and benefits over the years." But, he said, while the deal will "please" shareholders, "unfortunately for the consumer, both editorially and financially, it is never a good idea to let one media conglomerate control pricing and editorial content."OK so I don't pretend to be a media expert.But it strikes me as a lot of doom and gloom that only "one player" will control the news and editorial content for all of Long Island.Sure Newsday and Cablevision have great brand ID and a lot of smart folks...
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| Putting the "public" in public media ... |
| 2008-05-09 08:36:00 |
The "public" as subsidizer of the news business? The "public" as a monolithic "object" in league with the media?Or the "public" we envision in our "One Long Island" projects?"....While it is the only business protected by the Constitution, the press isn’t shielded from the laws of supply and demand. If the current business model isn’t working, then it’s because the distribution of news has radically changed, allowing those with Internet access to dictate their news content. Judy and Mickey are not going to be able to save Newsday, and the idea of a local media collective is dead on arrival. The future of Newsday will be decided by veteran financial professionals, seasoned media analysts, digital marketers, government ...
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| Long Island "Synthesis" |
| 2008-05-07 09:24:00 |
(Select for larger image)Just another simplified way to look at what we're attempting to achieve with the One Island">Long Island series of projects....
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| More interesting reading ... |
| 2008-05-06 13:14:00 |
"No one starting from scratch would design a local government system like New York hasnow, with its overlapping governments and rigid structure. This structure makes itdifficult – but not impossible – to define efficient service areas and to levy taxes orassessments on those who are served. It creates some duplication of services andfunctions. It creates opportunity for miscommunication and lack of coordination in30economic development and other policy areas.Although it is not the system we would design today, it is the system we have.Unfortunately, changing the system structurally is extraordinarily difficult: The politicalhurdles in front of eliminating a village layer or merging a city and county areextraordinarily high. City-county mergers in upstate New York would require mergingg...
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| Two problems with a common source |
| 2008-05-05 14:38:00 |
"Put simply, the economic model of news gathering of maintaining costly overseas correspondents and news bureaus, of investigative journalists is being eviscerated," Moffett wrote. "And it is being eviscerated by the Internet.""Just how difficult will it be to enact any of the reforms proposed last week by the Lundine commission on efficiency and competitiveness? Answer: Pretty difficult."The above two stories illustrate pretty well the dilemma we've been exploring over the past year or so (or back to 1993 in fact) and why we've been proposing the "One Long Island" series of projects.Information gathering and analysis is changing at a rapid rate. We need new dynamic, collaborative and flexible organizations, structures and models to address this new reality.Accurate timely informatio...
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| Good article ... |
| 2008-05-02 11:46:00 |
"The central process driving this is not globalization. It’s the skills revolution. We’re moving into a more demanding cognitive age. In order to thrive, people are compelled to become better at absorbing, processing and combining information. This is happening in localized and globalized sectors, and it would be happening even if you tore up every free trade deal ever inked."...
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| Another static report, but with some promise ... |
| 2008-04-30 10:08:00 |
Some good work here (although I certainly don't agree with all of it) and well worth reading.The establishment of an executive level "center" for government efficiency is a good idea if it is not another level of bureaucracy but instead is the type of dynamic collaborative interaction we've been preaching (since 1993!).The immediate problem with this report is that it is, again a static document created by a limited number of individuals over a finite period of time. This was probably unavoidable given their mandate and the current state of affairs.A good effort was made to "reach out" to as many folks as possible and the concept of "collaboration" is repeated often in the report. It also rightly acknowledges that previous efforts have failed because of a ...
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| Long Island Meta News Service: Part Three |
| 2008-04-29 14:15:00 |
Setting up the technical aspects of the LIMNS (Island">Long Island MetaNet) is really not too difficult given the widespread availability and relatively inexpensive Web 2.0 and emerging Web 3.0 technologies.So how to "spread the word" and create a Long Island based media network quickly?In any organization there are folks who are just natural networkers. They know tons of folks. In fact if we did our own Six Degrees of Separation on Long Island we could probably reach almost every person of influence on Long Island. We want those people. The "meta networkers."But they are not the only people we want.I think most "average" folks don't realize the power, influence and good ideas they have. It ...
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| Long Island Meta News Service: Part Two |
| 2008-04-26 06:50:00 |
OK so we're calling it a Island">Long Island Meta News Service to take advantage of the current debate of the sale of Newsday, shameless self-promoters that we are.But in fact, this "structure" may be applied to almost any form of mass (meta) communication and information distribution on Long Island or elsewhere. It is one of the central collaborative models we're promoting in our "One Long Island" series.From a technical point of view, creating a "community based" news service really isn't all that difficult any longer. We define community as all individuals and organizations (of all types) on Long Island. Even organizing it is...
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| Good overview of Klogging: Long Island Klogging Network? |
| 2008-04-24 08:23:00 |
"Klogging for Managers - 4/19/02; 10:44:41 PM by PW 1. Introduction. You are a Knowledge Weblog (klog) sales rep calling on an IT department and its customers. What tools do you need to explain your product? To make your case? To guide decision making? To boilerplate deployment and maintenance? You are a Manager who wants to bootstrap knowledge management on a shoe string. What tools do you want to avoid risks, pave the way for success, and to make the whole process fun? Here is a partial list of what a klogging tool vendor's marketing department might produce. Suggestions? 2. Why does Klogging work? whitepaper. Includes case studies and measures of success. Klogging meets some knowledge management goals. Personal Memory Control = Freedom to write Memory = Accessible Hi...
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| More on a Long Island "Citizen Media" |
| 2008-04-23 09:35:00 |
News of the sale of Newsday has prompted many to worry about the potential lack of diversity in media coverage on Island">Long Island. This clearly is a valid concern.I think however, it misses the enormity and broad scope of the information and media changes that are upon us.Some theorize that we have become too dependent on traditional sources of media, not only to inform us, but to think for us as well.The explosion of blogging and other Web 2.0 technologies has given a voice to many who were previously shut out of the public policy arena, but it has also too widely dispersed and in some ways confused the general public even more. Additionally most blogging is "opinion based" and not subjec...
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| Is it true? |
| 2008-04-18 07:45:00 |
One of the overriding benefits of the One Long Island series of projects is the gradual construction of a "self regulating" or "self policing" system of information vetting and analysis.Sites such as this one are useful, but are still dependent on traditional means of gathering and analyzing information. These practices will continue to be useful, but will not be enough as information becomes (or has already become) more voluminous, more nuanced and available in more and different formats. The human brain needs assistance in analyzing information accurately and quickly.One Long Island attempts to anticipate Web 3.0 technologies even while we work to get the Island up to Web 2.0 standards.As we've previously stated, a major impediment to creating sound public policy (in its broadest definit...
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| The "reverse engineering" of Long Island: Part One |
| 2008-04-15 09:38:00 |
| "Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation. It often involves taking something (e.g. a mechanical device, electronic component, or software program) apart and analyzing its workings in detail, usually to try to make a new device or program that does the same thing without copying anything from the original."OK. So I'm not 100% against taking things from "the original" as it relates to the "re-organization" of our governing structures and policies if, after careful examination, they work and are able to adapt to a dynamic view of Island
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| Another plan ... |
| 2008-04-09 07:30:00 |
More static planning?Not that this a bad idea, in fact it may turn out to be very productive.But the idea of, once again, one group trying to plan an entire region's future strikes me as more of the same. A new report, no matter how professional, divorced from or marginally connected to all the other projects, ideas, organizations etc, won't get the job done. As one example in hundreds, how will the creators of this report interact with the study being conducted at Dowling regarding a possible 51st state? Aren't both looking at many related issues?Another example. How will the creators of this report interact with the many planned and operating business incubators/accelerators to determine potential business growth and the type of business growth for the next 50 years or so?The point is th...
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| Long Island: The 51st State - Part Two |
| 2008-04-03 09:27:00 |
Some have found it amusing that this subject has reappeared. In fact, some have dismissed it out of hand.But we should look at it as an opportunity to do some real analysis in a dynamic manner.The folks at Dowling will, I have no doubt, do a thorough and professional job on the analysis, just as Mr. Koppelman and others have done previously.But what will happen with the results?Will they sit on a shelf somewhere never to be seen again?As we have stated previously, there are many good ideas and intelligent folks on Island">Long Island. What is missing is a coordinated approach to the issues.Dowling should reach out to other universities (Stony Brook comes to mind on the technology end) and crea...
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| Long Island: The 51st State? |
| 2008-03-28 09:11:00 |
Interesting article here about a renewed effort to create the State of Island">Long Island.We've already pointed out a few previous efforts.The idea has merit, if only as a serious intellectual exercise for now. So let's put some of Long Island's universities and organizations to work on the idea and vet it completely. Good job for a Long Island Community Congress (or Virtual Long Island Constitution, Long Island Virtual Community Congress or Long Island Virtual Think Tank).How about a Long Island Virtual Constitutional Convention?This is a perfect opportunity to discuss all of the "One Long Island" concepts and all of the other great ideas out there for creating a new Long Island.Because it o...
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| Long Island School of Meta-Interdisciplinary Study: Lesson One |
| 2008-03-28 08:20:00 |
We've posted previously about the need to create an environment where we can all learn to think in a "cross disciplinary" manner.Meta-interdisciplinary simply means you are exhausting all possible means of determining the correct public policy by leaving no one or no possible solution or idea out of the equation.Here is a simple exercise.Take 100 randomly selected "things" (concepts, ideas, existing programs, physical structures what have you) and put them on index cards. Next, select five cards. Create three possible connections (collaborative activities) between all of the five cards selected.As you get more adept at the process increase 100 to 200, five to ten, three to five and so on until your brain starts to hurt. Now we're thinking "out of the box."If...
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| Updates ... |
| 2008-03-25 05:48:00 |
(Photo credit: Scott Savinetti)Sorry for the lack of posts recently. No, I haven't run out of ideas, at least not yet.Putting the finishing touches on the first "One Long Island" real word project. Never easy when coordinating large organizations, but hopefully it will get easier as more of the "One Long Island" principles are put into place.In the meantime, here is a new piece for piano I've been working on in my spare time.More updates (and ideas) soon....
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| Making the Transition: Part One |
| 2008-03-04 08:12:00 |
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, MeditationsRoman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD - 180 AD) We harp quite a bit on structure the Long Island Idea Factory in the form of the One Long Island series of projects.Why?Because without the proper flexible, dynamic structure sustainable positive change is difficult to achieve.I have my own ideas about what change is important, but so what?No one person or organization has all the answers. We have to believe that with the correct structure and methodology the correct change will occur, in whatever form that change manifests itself.So how to go about change? How do we transition from where we are to where we wish to be?How do we go from mere rhetoric to substance?How do we create a Long Island...
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| Long Island "Green" Business Accelerator |
| 2008-02-28 10:58:00 |
I've been reading with great interest all the new focus on "green" energy and its possible positive impact on the Island">Long Island economy."The Green Guide" and "Long Island's Next Big Thing" among others are great additions to the cause and are doing splendid work in highlighting the issues and attempting to take a comprehensive approach to energy production on Long Island.I would suggest all involved consider a Long Island "Green" Business Accelerator model along the lines of the Port of Technology in Philadelphia and other business "accelerator" models we've discussed in previous posts over the past year. Here is another example of an "alternativ...
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| Long Island Best Practices WIKI: Part 2 |
| 2008-02-24 07:36:00 |
We've been reading quite a bit of local news recently on how government operates on Island">Long Island and in New York State generally. This is separate and apart from the "meta-issues" involved in the presidential campaign.Some advocate getting "mad as hell."It has been my humble experience that getting "mad" does not cause fundamental change. It only makes things worse.It's easy to be against something. It is much harder to be for something.So how do we lower the temperature and at the same time inform and engage the public and governmental entities of all types in a substantive dialogue?Many of the One Long Island proposals are designed to do just that.But how about we make an attempt at defining some standards of perform...
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| Avoiding the Suppression of Progress: Part II |
| 2008-02-20 11:15:00 |
Did you ever notice that the same voices are heard repeatedly?When we say the same voices, we are primarily speaking about "institutional voices" with a built in large readership or large numbers of viewers or organizational members, not letters or comments to the editor. We are not even talking about the occasional op-ed or the blogosphere. Institutional voices control the flow of information and, as importantly, the frequency with which the information is printed or broadcast.Whether in the regional newspapers, the local newspapers, major organizations, government, the local cable editorials, guest panelists, guest columnists what have you, we seem to hear the same or similar voices heard almost exclusively.Why does this happen?Well certainly, if you have a point of view and you are in ...
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| A brief intermission ... |
| 2008-02-19 09:38:00 |
Sorry about the lack of posts recently.I'm actually engaged in attempting to put some of the "One Long Island" theories into practice.I should have a few updates soon....
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| Acceleration, not incubation ... |
| 2008-02-12 05:24:00 |
Turning the former Navy property in Bethpage into a "jobs incubator" is potentially a very good idea, although the "incubator" concept should really be an "accelerator" concept as we have described in previous posts linked to all other Long Island Accelerators (meta acceleration).Again we have an example of a good idea which could be made even better if it linked to "similar" projects and concepts being planned or underway on Long Island.We should first look for links on Long Island and "consolidate" concepts and programs where it makes sense to do so.I understand there is an inherent competitiveness and need for autonomy between jurisdictions, but "regional planning" and "consolidation" does not only refer to land use issues and organizations.Maybe regional planning is a somewhat outdated...
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| Creating Dynamic Commissions:Part One |
| 2008-02-10 07:56:00 |
We have posted many times previously about the creation of commissions that in turn create "static" reports not connected to any other report or body of knowledge on the same or related subject.Here now is a new one. I have no doubt the parade of commissions will continue since we seem to be in love with the concept. We'll assume for the moment that the findings of the commission have not been "preordained" and that this commission (or any commission for that matter) is being convened to take an impartial, objective look at the issue(s) rather than being convened to certify an end result that an individual or individuals wish to effectuate.It isn't as though creating commissions and issuing reports or findings is a bad thing. Quite the contrary, it c...
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