Thursday 26 July 2012

My book reviews of Nudge, Tribes, & Here Comes Everybody..!

NudgeNudge is the science of how people actually behave - not how we want or think they behave. What about collection tins shaped like seaside games, bins that thank dog walkers for clearing up mess, or reduce the public flow round certain parts of properties based on nudges in behavioural patterns..? Could this help us normalise and positively reinforce pro-social behaviour, which could help us mainstreaming volunteering beyond the 30% civic core. 


TribesThinking in Tribes creates self motivated subcultures. The tribe decides where the end goal is and how to get there. Leadership can come from anywhere, with the facilitated role of “keeping the balloon in the air”. Is it ok if everyone isn’t on-board right from the beginning..?


Leadership plain & simpleCan be summarised as: Think, Talk, Do.. ;-)Do you think "we are up to something together"..? Test your Leadership muscles:

  1. ×          What's your shadow of a leader?
  2. ×          Build BIG relationships
  3. ×          Analyse the gaps between yourself "just surviving" and "at your best". then look for the trigger points

Here comes everybodyMy favourite book in the whole world. Clay Shirky expanded on it with a video called “organising without organisations” which is 20 mins of brilliance! Has links to microvolunteering, mass-amateurisation, and crowdsourcing. Lots to think about in how we create a movement from hundreds and thousands of individual parts.Does this offer is new forms of non hierarchical collaboration with massive disruptive potential..?

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