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Clay Shirky The institutional response is “I can get 75% of the value for 10% of the hires! Great - that’s what I’ll do”. The co-operative infrastructure model says… “Why do you want to give up a quarter of the value?. If your system is designed so you have to give up a quarter of the value reengineer the system - don’t take on the costs that prevent you from getting to the contributions of these people, build the system so that anybody can contribute at any amount.” So the co-ordination response asks not “How are these people as employees?”, rather… “What is their contribution like?” And the tension here is between Institution-As-Enabler and Institution-As-Obstacle… Institutions hate being told that they are obstacles… more about "Clay Shirky on institutions vs. colla…", posted with vodpod
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