C.L. is falling for the spin as these CEO’s expect the populace to.

As WC Fields said “never give a sucker an even break”. And business never will until and when people are hurting and get smart enough to see what is being done to them. Instead, they will be lulled into early graves from blacking out on fast food-induced diabetes. I guess it’s ok then.

Eventually, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men will come tumbling down again….on all our backs. If you can’t compete then it’s survival of the fittest. I guess we all deserve what we get.

~mz

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Rob

In particular, I liked both the stories that David Taylor told and the stories that his case study providers told–All three were great! But Rob McEwen stole the show!

I would love to try the same format with some of the more interesting case study providers from MY new book–Outside Innovation…Richard Duvall from Zopa, Mary Obana from KokoFitness, Greg Selkoe from Karmaloop and Mitchell Baker from Mozilla and maybe, while we’re on the topic of Open Source, Pat Kerpan from Cohesive FT… Let me know and we’ll make this happen!

Patty Seybold

Many of the innovation sources to the companies in this episode were compensated in cash. These prizes, though a nice windfall, can’t possibly reflect the future earnings these commercial enterprises garner. In effect, commercial open sourcers who don’t offer at least a little equity in their venture are discounting the hard work of their sources. It’s only a matter of time before the sources figure this out.

Lydon alluded to these companies going a bit further, suggesting they could offer health insurance. It’s too bad this insightful question was laughed off by Taylor, because it might have lead to an interesting discussion about the real value of innovators.

Unless contibutors are compensated at least a little for their work, this system is doomed.

Sorry to have been such a ghost.

I just wanted to say that I thought this show was fascinating. Y’all are justifiably wary of harping on OS, but I thought this was a really successful hour. Thanks!

Henry

Were you being facetious David? If so, then I am sorry if you were offended. No, let me try that again. I apologize for my pointed comment. Wait! How about we talk about it over sushi and sake?

Call me a skeptic, but the publisher’s note on Mavericks at Work lists business axioms as old as the hills: be different, listen to your customers, etc. Years back when I read The Cluetrain Manifesto, a marketing book much loved by bloggers, I said, this is new? Certainly, what is new is the ability to conduct public forums over the Internet. Maybe I’m too young: all of this is obvious to me.

Nothing against the book, it’s always nice to have a source which lists some winning ideas from business, and if they’re written in a good narrative form, they’ll stick.

The “open source” movement says that the user can be the implementer. But the “open governance” has a much wider appeal. That is, while I’m a shareholder in, and a customer of, Exxon-Mobil, there’s very little I can do to influence this firm, I don’t know enough about oil. But I do want open governance, whether it is the petroleum industry or the MBTA. (not to mention the very fact that the public is invited to board meetings of WGBH, which carries this show, says something about open governance).

Savitz focuses more on open corporate governance in The Triple Bottom Line– corporate accountability on not just financials, but environmental and social impact. The book also relies on the nitty-gritty details of compliance, testing, and reporting.

I guess you can frame the debate: maverick innovation vs. standards compliance. Which is more important for contemporary businesses to focus on?

If you ROS is so eager to “get rich”, maybe it should get out of the public radio stream and jump into the roaring river of private media, where insightful voices are downed out by the noise from all the screaming heads.