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- organization as organizingon April 23, 2024
organization as organizing – Orion Growth In August of last year, I was given the opportunity to open a conference in San Francisco. We were on a biotech campus in Santa Clara and the theme was sustainability. To me, sustainability starts with […]
- Beyond Sustainability - Part 2on April 16, 2024
Beyond Sustainability - Part 2 – Orion Growth In part 1 of this 2-part series, we broke the word sustainability down into its parts. The word ‘sustain’ is a verb meaning to support, hold, or bear up from below. This is something we actively […]
- Beyond Sustainability - Part Ion April 5, 2024
Beyond Sustainability - Part I – Orion Growth What if we were in business to be pro-planet? Imagine if we used ‘sustainable’ as a baseline rather than a goal. What if we applied this approach to agriculture, land management, and urban […]
- AI Tokens?!on March 27, 2024
AI Tokens?! – Orion Growth Boy, it’s exhausting in AI….and the vocabulary continues to deepen. Despite what you’re seeing on LinkedIn live feeds, CRE might not be the best place to seek SMEs on AI - especially ML/LLM’s/Tokenomics. Like […]
- IT's complicatedon March 19, 2024
IT's complicated – Orion Growth Those who choose to practice technology and innovation see it. Advancements in chipsets and compute power will jettison us to next-level processing. The shift from central, to graphical has moved to neural. It […]
- 1460 days ago...on March 12, 2024
1460 days ago... – Orion Growth Do you remember where you were? I do. I had just gotten off the phone with a friend of mine who works for the CDC in Washington, DC. It was a Friday afternoon, after lunch. The exact time escapes me, yet I […]
- Radical Transparencyon March 5, 2024
Radical Transparency – Orion Growth For organizations that can move to digital transformation, radical transparency will be among the first of the benefits. Things we couldn’t see or didn’t know will become evident. Most of this […]
- Practiceon February 28, 2024
Practice – Orion Growth When we think about professions where individuals ‘practice’ their work, it generally refers to fields where continuous improvement, updating of skills, and adherence to evolving standards or knowledge are crucial. […]
- Organizational Ecologyon February 14, 2024
Organizational Ecology – Orion Growth I want to riff off a post that a colleague, Phil Kirschner, made this week on LinkedIn about org health. The post came from the viewpoint of an org’s sustainable competitive advantage based on their […]
- MisDisinformationon February 6, 2024
MisDisinformation – Orion Growth Misinformation is false or inaccurate information - getting the facts wrong. Provided the data collection process is engineered with proper intent, a statement like ‘data doesn’t lie’ is misinformation. If […]
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