Conversation Agent - Valeria Maltoni

Filter Success

Letting Go from yiibu In an age of continuous partial attention, people prefer not to get involved with information. Involvement means commitment, and everyone is already maxed out. Or are they? You don't know what you don't know More than filter failure, we have a discovery challenge. More networks have given us more friends. And more friends are giving us more shared content. Except for, often, unless we make it a point to follow links and chase news stories, we end up reading more of the same (or similar) thing -- everywhere. Even using useful services like Flipboard and Feedly,... Read more →

Connection Economy: a Smarter Way to Network

While there is a battle still being waged in social networks about defining and engaging influence online, in the executive suite, influence is often defined as informal power to support and help coordinate resources. Successful executives network with a select group of people. According to research conducted by Rob Cross and Robert Thomas, the executives who consistently rank in the top 20% of their companies in both performance and well-being have diverse but select networks—made up of high-quality relationships with people who come from several different spheres and from up and down the corporate hierarchy. These high performers tap into... Read more →

Conversation as White Space

Conversation Agent turns eight this week. I started this blog to experiment with learning at scale via community building / interaction and to spread ideas on purpose -- to find like-minded thinkers and doers. Writing continues to be a path to working on progress, as for finding a tribe... it turns out that coming back to where I started is not the same as never leaving. To celebrate, I am reblogging a couple of posts that are even more relevant today than when I first published them. +++ White space is where something greater than a market happens. To illustrate,... Read more →

Flow

“The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something we make happen. … [Flow is] a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue to do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it. … [Flow lets people] achieve a joyous, self-forgetful involvement through concentration, which in turn is made possible by a discipline of the body.”... Read more →