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In Memory

This week, Collective Next is taking a moment of silence to remember the victims of the Boston Marathon tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Boston community.

The Currency of Collaboration

In Transcribe Live in the Lab last Friday, we started out as we always do, touching briefly on a broad range of topics. We started talking about Bitcoin, a “digital currency, protocol, and software that is changing the way we think about currency." We explored Bitcoin and what the algorithm is for its value.  We then began exploring what the value algorithm would be if collaboration were a currency.

The jury is out on whether we came up with the answer to the question, but we did land on a couple things.

Shaping Culture Through Story Telling

In our most recent Transcribe Live in the Lab, we had a great discussion about the relationship between story telling, organizational culture, and leadership. Stories exist in organizations. They always have and always will. They shape and perpetuate an organization’s culture whether they are accidental or intentional, negative or positive, true or false.