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From the presentation of Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps of Netage at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston last June:

Decide to network
Use every letter you write
Every conversation you have
Every meeting you attend
To express your fundamental beliefs and dreams
Affirm to others the vision of the world you want
Network through thought
Network through action
Network through love
Network through the spirit
You are the center of the world
You are a free, immensely powerful source
of life and goodness
Affirm it
Spread it
Radiate it
Think day and night about it
And you will see a miracle happen:
the greatness of your own life.
In a world of big powers, media, and monopolies
But of six billion individuals
Networking is the new freedom
the new democracy
a new form of happiness

ROBERT MULLER

Robert Muller is a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chancellor Emeritus, UN University for Peace. He wrote this for Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps in honor of their first book, Networking (Doubleday, 1982).

In CNN Money about the creation of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence:

Media in China was more a propaganda machine than a source of information or entertainment. The government reached out to us and said, "This is what we think is right. This is what everybody should do".

From Colin Powell

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them

Still from Theodores Zeldin in "An Intimate History of Humanity" (page 17)

Now that for the first time better communication has become one of humanity's main priorities, no life can be considered to be fully lived if it has not benefited from all the encounters of which it is capable. Today, hope is sustained above all be the prospect of meeting new people

The minute you systematize something, you suck the life out of it…nobody asks questions any more – questions such as ‘why is it done this way?’ ‘Has the world changed in the interim?’ ‘Can it be done better now?’

Paul Burdick - AES

KM lies in the human practice. It is about finding good ways of doing things. Quality lies in the organizational process. It is about deploying good ways of doing things.

Oftentimes, managers think they know and subordinates don't, so they bet on processes to "deploy" their thoughts. I only know of one company where the two apparently meet: Toyota. On Toyota's production system, processes are systematically analyzed and documented down to the individual human practice. Every single change in the human practice of car assembly is systematically tested and experimented before it becomes industrialized in a process. And if the process turns out to be wrong, the line is stopped so that people can immediately investigate the cause and correct it or return to a previous "safe" process.

As John Seely Brown puts it:"It's like a ballet". And the manufacturing machine turns into a form of art.