Information Management for Organizational Effectiveness

How do you relate to the memory of the field you are studying?

Taylor built one of the greatest teams in the history of high-technology and kept it together for years. Heroic lone-wolf entrepreneurs may be the preferred heroes of narratives spun by the media, but history has shown us that teams—and the networks that come from them—are the true engines behind innovation in Silicon Valley and far beyond. No one understood this better than Bob Taylor.

You've never heard of tech legend Bob Taylor, but he invented 'almost everything' by Leslie Berlin in Wired, 21 April 2017

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... but we might touch upon them in conversation

Organizations come into existence for the pursuit of specific purposes. Purpose demands coordination, planning, and supervision. It requires the systematic introduction of rationality criteria, of cause and effect, cost and benefit. The pursuit of purpose encourages behavior and structure aimed at reducing uncertainty. All of this gives rise to that characteristic organizational form, bureaucracy. The specificity of functions in a bureaucracy mirrors the specificity of its purposes.

1. Posen, B. (1984). The sources of military doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany between the world wars. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
   pages 43-46

... inculcating a culture of historical-mindedness when dealing with present problems is a very important concept in leader development. Historical-mindedness helps to refine a logical thought structure for purposeful decisionmaking.

2. The Role of Military History in the Education of Future Officers by Michael Evans, 1997.

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Jerusalema

Since the middle of this year, the gospel-inspired South African house track “Jerusalema” by DJ and producer Master KG, featuring vocalist Nomcebo Zikode, has enraptured a global audience. What made it especially take off was its evolution into the #JerusalemaDanceChallenge, prompted by a group of Angolan friends recording themselves with plates of food performing a variation of the line dance to the song. Following that, similar clips of people dancing to the song have been shared from all over — groups of ordinary people, nuns and priests, health care and other essential workers, police and soldiers, fuel attendants; you name it. Per the African Union, “Jerusalema” is “a song that has transcended its national boundaries and the continent, and has people across the world dancing to its vibrant rhythm.
Jacobin, 10 Dec 2020