I was searching for some information on social collaboration, that's kind of what this is all about.  I ran across the post and thought I would share it with our community.  I have also attached the URL if you are interested i learning how we will behave in the future.  I believe this to be true, we are in a transformative age and we are just seeing the tip of the movement. 

Within a social network, you'd got to listen to learn.  This entails treating everyone as a legitimate participant.  Listening taps into the flow of knowledge through the social system.  To show others you're listening is to show them you understand them.  Openness, collaboration, knowledge, and innovation result from this mutual understanding (which Maturana would call love.)  HP's explosive ink-jet cartridge business brought Maturana in for a two day tete-a-tete with several hundred.

If collaborative social systems are the natual way to go (as is the case everywhere but at work) and they also foster innovation, why isn't more of this stuff in evidence?  Because we're in the midst of a "transformational period in the history of our perception."  We['re chucking the model that likened organizations to machines: never changing.  In its place, we see organizations that are continually growing.  (They're alive!)

Management used to focus almost exclusively on change; now we must look at conservation, too.  It was once assumed that performance came from individuals; now we see that it takes a village.

The bottom line is to focus on value creation, something that's accomplished by the collaboration of groups of people in soccial networks.  Reflect on that one!

Perception= what we can do, not what we can see.