Walter Russell Mead, “God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World”, U.C. Berkeley 2007/10/23 May 11, 2008
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The Anglo-American view of the world has had a long history of predominance since the Industrial Revolution. Why?
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Walter Russell Mead, a foreign policy expert of the Council on Foreign Relations, speaks about his new book, God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World.
Mead argues that the key to the predominance of the United States and England has been the individualistic ideology of the prevailing Anglo-American religion. The synergy of this ideology and capitalism propelled Britain and the U.S. to global dominance, and as a result, the two nations were able to create the liberal, democratic system whose economic and social influence continues to grow around the world. Mead goes on to discuss the purpose of Anglo-American power in the post-9/11 world.
Verna Allee, “Value Networks” Mesh Forum, IT Conversations 2006/05/08 May 9, 2008
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I wasn’t familiar with the work on “value networks”, as described by Verna Allee. At Mesh Forum, there were certainly people who understood social network analysis.
“A value network is a way at looking at any purposeful organization, company, or network. It is any web of relationships that creates value through complex, dynamic exchanges of tangible and intangible value.” [...]
Traditional management tools increasingly do not present an accurate picture of how things really work in the new information age. For example, relationships between workers in different regions of the enterprise have become as important as those among workers who are close in proximity on a conventional org chart. Also, new information systems, and the resulting new practices, are creating a different understanding of the enterprise. These systems have genuine value, yet they do not show up as “assets” on traditional balance sheets.
Viewing all relationships as Value Networks provides a better way of understanding what is really generating a return. And it allows management, and individuals, to make the most of both the tangible and the intangible assets of the organization.
