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There is something special about meetings in the flesh, which cannot be replicated digitally

Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 27 October 2014

 



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There is something special about meetings in the flesh, which cannot be replicated digitally
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Posted DateMonday 27 October 2014 09:57 GMT
Posted ByDavid Gurteen

I wrote a little while back about Serendipity and Randomised Coffee Trials and since then I seem to keep coming across articles on the role and importance of serendipity in organizations. Here are a few quotes from two recent articles.
  • Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings.

  • We get a particular intellectual charge from sharing ideas in person.

  • If you just think of serendipity as an interaction with an unintended outcome, you can orchestrate pleasant surprises.

  • Silicon Valley's greatest advances came through collaboration -- making serendipitous encounters critical.

  • There is something special ... about meetings in the flesh, which cannot be replicated digitally.

  • When Steve Jobs designed a new headquarters for Pixar, he obsessed over ways to structure the atrium, and even where to locate the bathrooms, so that serendipitous personal encounters would occur.


Serendipity has always been a big part of what my Knowledge Cafes have been all about. You can never predict the outcomes of a conversation. Conversations have a life of their own - you have little control over them. They take you where they want to take you - sometimes down blind alleys but more often than not to fascinating places you would have never have visited on your own.



If you are interested in Knowledge Management, the Knowledge Café or the role of conversation in organizational life then you my be interested in this online book I am writing on Conversational Leadership
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