{"id":3589,"date":"2010-11-01T04:02:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T04:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2010-11-01T04:02:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T04:02:17","slug":"john-seely-brown-the-power-of-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3589","title":{"rendered":"John Seely Brown: &#8220;The Power of Pull&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"width\" value=\"640\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"385\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hx-dv6ZJTnc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hx-dv6ZJTnc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p height=\"385\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnseelybrown.com\/\"><strong>John Seely<\/strong> <strong>Brown<\/strong>,<\/a> who is the co-author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0465019358?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0465019358\"><strong>The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Moti<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/museumviews\/files\/2010\/05\/The-Power-of-Pull-John-Hagel-John-Seely-Brown-Lang-Davison-Deloitte-Centre-for-Edge-Innovation.jpg\" height=\"347\" style=\"width: 177px; height: 234px\" \/>on<\/strong><\/a><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0465019358\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/><\/strong>\u00a0along with blogfriend <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/edgeperspectives.typepad.com\/edge_perspectives\/\">John Hagel<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/langdavison\">Lang Dav<\/a>ison<\/strong>, is primarily speaking about education and learning in an ecological paradigm.<\/p>\n<p height=\"385\">Note to self: I\u00a0need to read this book.<\/p>\n<p height=\"385\">That said, &#8220;pull&#8221; is the fulcrum for all 20th century orgs that hope to adapt to the 21st, not just public education.\u00a0Hierarchies, including states,\u00a0can no longer completely\u00a0dominate, only aspire to generally\u00a0arbitrate,\u00a0or concentrate their powers in an asymmetric fashion. To do this, over the long term, requires putting \u00a0attracting the <strong><em>allegiance<\/em><\/strong> of clients and allies capable of taking independent initiative in harmony with the org&#8217;s vision rather than relying primarily\u00a0upon <strong><em>coercion<\/em><\/strong> to force people to mechanistically\u00a0follow orders.<\/p>\n<p height=\"385\">Not sure that too many people in our hallowed institutions &#8220;get it&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Seely Brown, who is the co-author of The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion\u00a0along with blogfriend John Hagel and Lang Davison, is primarily speaking about education and learning in an ecological paradigm. Note to self: I\u00a0need to read this book. That said, &#8220;pull&#8221; is the fulcrum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,262,216,46,420,24,327,346,33,389,21,34,525,37,326,490,78,388,336,47,492,462,14,187,66,436,36,268,558,381,474,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-4gw","category-academia","category-analytic","category-authors","category-cognition","category-complex-systems","category-connectivity","category-consilience","category-counterintuitive","category-creativity","category-education","category-epistemology","category-futurism","category-hagel","category-hierarchy","category-ideas","category-innovation","category-intellectuals","category-intelligence","category-leadership","category-metacognition","category-networks","category-politics","category-primary-loyalties","category-psychology","category-public-school","category-social-networks","category-social-science","category-society","category-soft-power","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}