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Scared of AI?  So is Anthropic.  A doomsday scenario is that recursive-self-improving AI may get to the point that it can produce AI babies even smarter and more capable than their parents, and those babies could produce more offspring, all at the “speed of compute,” so that humans can’t keep up.  Anthropic has released a white paper […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the spread of AI, partly stimulated by fellow authors who dismiss it as some combination of capitalist plot, hoax and plagiarism machine that they very much hope will collapse and go away. It won’t.  It’s too powerful, too pervasive and spreading too fast.  A passage from Sebastian Mallaby’s book, The […]

The 8th edition of Reframing Organizations is available at the usual booksellers, including Amazon.  Wiley’s site includes a link to the instructor’s site. The chapter structure is the same as in the 7th edition, and a lot of the content carried over as well, but there’s been extensive updating with new research and new case examples.  

I learned from Terry Deal’s wife Sandy that he died of an apparent heart attack early on the morning of June 4, 2024.  I’ve lost a best friend. Terry grew up in Laverne, California, attended Laverne College (now Laverne University), and worked for a while as a police officer in his home town before getting […]

Does Amazon do more harm than good?  Or vice-versa?  The question is heavily debated in many circles, including among people who write and publish books.  On the one hand, they need Amazon because of its dominant role in the book market.  Many self-published authors get most or all of their sales through e-books sold on […]

I had a delightful conversation about the frames in Jack Nestell’s ERG Organizational Change podcast.  Jack knows Reframing Organizations well and  expertly guided me through the ideas in the book.  The result is available as Episode 55: Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership at https://nestellassociates.com/podcast-home/ . Some teasers are in the links below:

What happened when the pandemic forced everyone online last year? At UC-Irvine, students spent more time studying and, on average, got better grades After Spring 2020, when everyone was forced online with no notice, many faculty got training for online teaching, which led them to use more best practices associated with student learning: less lecturing, […]