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Leading. Managing. Organizing.

Theories and approaches.
An in depth look at theory

                           Theories of
                           management



 Micro                                              Macro

 The focus is on                                    The focus is on
 individual                                         organizations and
 elements of an                                     other elements
 organization.                                      within an industry.




                   Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
Recap: The different roles of
managers
                                                  •   Entrepreneur
                                 Decision-        •   Resource allocator
                                  making          •   Disturbance handler
                                                  •   Negotiator



        •   Planning
        •   Organizing                                • Monitor
        •                           Informati-
            Leading                                   • Disseminator
                                       onal
        •   Controlling                               • Spokesperson



                                              • Leader
                               Inter-
                                              • Figurehead
                              personal
                                              • Liaison
               Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
Recap: The challenge of
convergence

"the flow of content across multiple
  media platforms, the cooperation
  between multiple media
  industries, and the migratory
  behaviour of media audiences."
  Henry Jenkins, DeFlorz Professor of Humanities and the Founder
  and Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT.
                    Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
Recap: The challenge of
convergence



                                         communica
                       cultural                           corporate
     Trends:            forms
                                            tions
                                                          ownership
                                          systems




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Recap: The challenge of
convergence



                                                              story
                     Marketing              job
     Levels:         alliances           description
                                                             telling
                                                          techniques




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Recap: The challenge of
convergence
 Existing business models are no longer
  viable
 Changing requirements for skill sets
 Changing requirements for
  organizational structure
 Changing market alignment
 Changing profile of customers

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Recap: manager profile

Background
Education
Media training
Demographics
Recruitment
Decision making
Success factors
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Recap: manager profile


       The tragedy of media
   managers is that they tend to get
   promoted to managerial positions
   because they are “really good
   reporters”.


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Recap: Major schools of thought


Classical
   Scientific management (Frederic Taylor)
   Bureaucratic
    (Administrative)
    management




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Recap: Major schools of thought


Behavioral
   Behavioral science
   Human relations
    • (Douglas McGregor)
   Theory of attitude
    and attitude change
    • Management as the
      facilitator of development.
    • Behaviorist vs. internalist position
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Recap: Major schools of thought


Contingency school
   Arguably, an organic organization is more
    responsive to change and has more
    chances of survival in conditions of high
    environmental uncertainty.




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Recap: Strategic questions




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Q?

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An in depth look at theory

                         Theories of
                         management



 Micro                                             Macro

 The focus is on                                   The focus is on
 individual                                        organizations and
 elements of an                                    other elements
 organization.                                     within an industry.




                   Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
The micro view


“Media management is a simple
 task since it involves only two
 resources: people and money”.

 Clark Pollack, retired board member of
  Nationwide Communications.


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The micro view:
             management skills
Technical
• Content production
• Content presentation
• Marketing; audience management; research; advertising
Human
•   Organizing
•   Motivating
•   Hiring and developing
•   Forging alliances
Conceptual
• Problem solving
• Decision makingAlex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
The micro view: Functions & roles
                                                   •   Entrepreneur
                                  Decision-        •   Resource allocator
                                   making          •   Disturbance handler
                                                   •   Negotiator



       •   Planning
       •   Organizing                                  • Monitor
       •                             Informati-
           Leading                                     • Disseminator
                                        onal
       •   Controlling                                 • Spokesperson



                                               • Leader
                                Inter-
                                               • Figurehead
                               personal
                                               • Liaison

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Management functions: Planning
                       ???




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Management functions: Planning

        Revision                                Goals


   Built-in
 feedback                Planning                          Objectives
mechanism


 Built-in controls                              Sequence of
                                                steps
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Management functions: Planning

     Retain the status quo


     Expand within the industry


     Diversify into a related industry


     Diversify into a new industry


     Divest or “sell out”


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Management functions: Organizing
                        ???




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Management functions: Organizing

         Revising                                 Communicating
                                                  objectives

Providing the                 Orga-
   necessary                  nizing                         Getting
  technology                                                 the buy-in


  Determining                                     Assigning
  relationships                                   responsibilities
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Management functions: Organizing

      Structuralization


      Departmentalization


      Delegation

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Management functions: Leading
                      ???




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Management functions: Leading
                                                   Developing
      Revising                                     organizational
                                                   philosophy

Innovating
                         Leading                          Setting
                                                          the goals


    Staffing                                    Motivating

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Management functions: Leading

     Internal
     factors

     External
     factors
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Management functions: Controlling
                        ???




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Management functions: Controlling
                                                 Designing the
         Revising                                feedback loop


 Correcting /                                              Establishing
       using            Controlling                        standards /
  deviations                                               metrics

      Measuring                                 Communicating
      performance                               standards / metrics
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How they manage: X, Y and Z


                          Z
                   = relationships
                     + authority



               Y
             = the                      X
           “human                   = absolute
            needs”                   authority
          approach




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Theory X (Douglas McGregor, 1960)




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Theory Y (Douglas McGregor, 1960)




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Theory Z (William Ouchi, 1987)




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Relevant to a media company?


                         Z
                   = “the family”



              Y
                                        X
            = “the
                                   = “absolute
         empowered
                                    authority”
          employee”




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Q?

Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
An in depth look at theory

                         Theories of
                         management



 Micro                                             Macro

 The focus is on                                   The focus is on
 individual                                        organizations and
 elements of an                                    other elements
 organization.                                     within an industry.




                   Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
The macro view


Management is optimizing for
 “market structure, market conduct
 and market performance”.

 Richard Caves, 1987.



            Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
MN: the convergent newsroom is…




          Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
Recap: Business models
Historically:
   Advertising only
   Combination of advertising, subscription and
    retail sales
   Subscription only
   Combination of sponsorship,
    membership/subscription, grants/public
    funding


                 Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
Recap: Enter participatory media



                       • Author /
                         audience
                         model
   The "free -         • News
    for profit"          aggregator
       axis              model
                       • News agency
                         model
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Recap: Enter participatory media



                • Publisher
       The        model
  "professiona • Audience
    l media -     ecosystem
  participatory model
   media" axis

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Recap: Enter participatory media
                                              Author / Audience model




Publisher                                                        Audience
 model                                                          ecosystem
                                                                  model




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      Author / Audience model
The macro view


                                 X           Y
                                          Z
Internal factors                                      External factors
• Ownership
• Budget / Financial
                                Management • Consumer dynamic
                                                      • Distribution
• Structural / Employee                               • Competitors
• Programming                                         • Regulation
• Marketing / Sales                                   • Labour unions
• PR                                                  • Industry groups

                          Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
Industry analysis


            Media industry



            Market components




                                          Market
 Market            Market
                                          perfor-
structure          conduct
                                          mance


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Market structure
 Market structure
    Economic features of a market which affect the behaviour of the
     industry supplying this market.
    Example: Broadcasting vs. Cable.
    Example: Google..?
 Elements of market structure
      Seller concentration
      Product differentiation
      Barriers to entry
      Buyer concentration
      Costs
      Demand
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Market conduct
 Market conduct
    Company policies toward its consumers and competitors
 Elements of market conduct
    Price-setting
    Competitive policies
    Quality control




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Market performance
 Market performance
   Comparing the performance of a company (or industry) with its
    potential in:


                                         Efficiency in
                         Growth              using
                                          resource




                                                Stability of
                    Fairness
                                                  prices



                                 Stability of
                                employment
                     Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
Q?

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David Gillespie: Digital Strangelove
 Main ideas:




 Is David right?




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For Week 3 session:
 Be prepared to discuss Chapter 1 of Redmond and Trager.
    Pay special attention to the major changes in technology and the
     social fabric, that shaped each of the traditional media industries in
     the U. S. Make a timeline of such changes (categorized as either
     tech. or social) for one chosen industry, and be prepared to discuss
     it.
 Read and watch the Lessons from the Rocky Mountain
  News presentation by John Temple, the former editor of the
  Rocky Mountain News, which folded in Feb. 2009, after a
  century and a half of consecutive operation.
    Prepare an 800 words briefing of the RMN case. Concentrate on 1).
     A summary of the main events described in the presentation; 2).
     management miscalculations that, in your opinion, contributed to the
     demise of the newspaper; 3) three “lessons” that were the most
     relevant to your career or career| aspirations.
                       Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. Tweet me: @Doc_G_

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Theories of management and organization

  • 2. An in depth look at theory Theories of management Micro Macro The focus is on The focus is on individual organizations and elements of an other elements organization. within an industry. Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 3. Recap: The different roles of managers • Entrepreneur Decision- • Resource allocator making • Disturbance handler • Negotiator • Planning • Organizing • Monitor • Informati- Leading • Disseminator onal • Controlling • Spokesperson • Leader Inter- • Figurehead personal • Liaison Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 4. Recap: The challenge of convergence "the flow of content across multiple media platforms, the cooperation between multiple media industries, and the migratory behaviour of media audiences." Henry Jenkins, DeFlorz Professor of Humanities and the Founder and Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 5. Recap: The challenge of convergence communica cultural corporate Trends: forms tions ownership systems Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 6. Recap: The challenge of convergence story Marketing job Levels: alliances description telling techniques Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 7. Recap: The challenge of convergence Existing business models are no longer viable Changing requirements for skill sets Changing requirements for organizational structure Changing market alignment Changing profile of customers Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 8. Recap: manager profile Background Education Media training Demographics Recruitment Decision making Success factors Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 9. Recap: manager profile The tragedy of media managers is that they tend to get promoted to managerial positions because they are “really good reporters”. Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 10. Recap: Major schools of thought Classical  Scientific management (Frederic Taylor)  Bureaucratic (Administrative) management Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 11. Recap: Major schools of thought Behavioral  Behavioral science  Human relations • (Douglas McGregor)  Theory of attitude and attitude change • Management as the facilitator of development. • Behaviorist vs. internalist position Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 12. Recap: Major schools of thought Contingency school  Arguably, an organic organization is more responsive to change and has more chances of survival in conditions of high environmental uncertainty. Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 13. Recap: Strategic questions Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 14. Q? Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 15. An in depth look at theory Theories of management Micro Macro The focus is on The focus is on individual organizations and elements of an other elements organization. within an industry. Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 16. The micro view “Media management is a simple task since it involves only two resources: people and money”. Clark Pollack, retired board member of Nationwide Communications. Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 17. The micro view: management skills Technical • Content production • Content presentation • Marketing; audience management; research; advertising Human • Organizing • Motivating • Hiring and developing • Forging alliances Conceptual • Problem solving • Decision makingAlex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 18. The micro view: Functions & roles • Entrepreneur Decision- • Resource allocator making • Disturbance handler • Negotiator • Planning • Organizing • Monitor • Informati- Leading • Disseminator onal • Controlling • Spokesperson • Leader Inter- • Figurehead personal • Liaison Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 19. Management functions: Planning ??? Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 20. Management functions: Planning Revision Goals Built-in feedback Planning Objectives mechanism Built-in controls Sequence of steps Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 21. Management functions: Planning Retain the status quo Expand within the industry Diversify into a related industry Diversify into a new industry Divest or “sell out” Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 22. Management functions: Organizing ??? Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 23. Management functions: Organizing Revising Communicating objectives Providing the Orga- necessary nizing Getting technology the buy-in Determining Assigning relationships responsibilities Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 24. Management functions: Organizing Structuralization Departmentalization Delegation Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 25. Management functions: Leading ??? Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 26. Management functions: Leading Developing Revising organizational philosophy Innovating Leading Setting the goals Staffing Motivating Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 27. Management functions: Leading Internal factors External factors Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 28. Management functions: Controlling ??? Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 29. Management functions: Controlling Designing the Revising feedback loop Correcting / Establishing using Controlling standards / deviations metrics Measuring Communicating performance standards / metrics Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 30. How they manage: X, Y and Z Z = relationships + authority Y = the X “human = absolute needs” authority approach Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 31. Theory X (Douglas McGregor, 1960) Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 32. Theory Y (Douglas McGregor, 1960) Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 33. Theory Z (William Ouchi, 1987) Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 34. Relevant to a media company? Z = “the family” Y X = “the = “absolute empowered authority” employee” Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 35. Q? Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 36. An in depth look at theory Theories of management Micro Macro The focus is on The focus is on individual organizations and elements of an other elements organization. within an industry. Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 37. The macro view Management is optimizing for “market structure, market conduct and market performance”. Richard Caves, 1987. Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 38. MN: the convergent newsroom is… Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 39. Recap: Business models Historically:  Advertising only  Combination of advertising, subscription and retail sales  Subscription only  Combination of sponsorship, membership/subscription, grants/public funding Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 40. Recap: Enter participatory media • Author / audience model The "free - • News for profit" aggregator axis model • News agency model Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 41. Recap: Enter participatory media • Publisher The model "professiona • Audience l media - ecosystem participatory model media" axis Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 42. Recap: Enter participatory media Author / Audience model Publisher Audience model ecosystem model Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_ Author / Audience model
  • 43. The macro view X Y Z Internal factors External factors • Ownership • Budget / Financial Management • Consumer dynamic • Distribution • Structural / Employee • Competitors • Programming • Regulation • Marketing / Sales • Labour unions • PR • Industry groups Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 44. Industry analysis Media industry Market components Market Market Market perfor- structure conduct mance Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 45. Market structure  Market structure  Economic features of a market which affect the behaviour of the industry supplying this market.  Example: Broadcasting vs. Cable.  Example: Google..?  Elements of market structure  Seller concentration  Product differentiation  Barriers to entry  Buyer concentration  Costs  Demand Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 46. Market conduct  Market conduct  Company policies toward its consumers and competitors  Elements of market conduct  Price-setting  Competitive policies  Quality control Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 47. Market performance  Market performance  Comparing the performance of a company (or industry) with its potential in: Efficiency in Growth using resource Stability of Fairness prices Stability of employment Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 48. Q? Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 49. David Gillespie: Digital Strangelove  Main ideas:  Is David right? Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. | Tweet me: @Doc_G_
  • 50. For Week 3 session:  Be prepared to discuss Chapter 1 of Redmond and Trager.  Pay special attention to the major changes in technology and the social fabric, that shaped each of the traditional media industries in the U. S. Make a timeline of such changes (categorized as either tech. or social) for one chosen industry, and be prepared to discuss it.  Read and watch the Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News presentation by John Temple, the former editor of the Rocky Mountain News, which folded in Feb. 2009, after a century and a half of consecutive operation.  Prepare an 800 words briefing of the RMN case. Concentrate on 1). A summary of the main events described in the presentation; 2). management miscalculations that, in your opinion, contributed to the demise of the newspaper; 3) three “lessons” that were the most relevant to your career or career| aspirations. Alex Gorelik, Ph. D. Tweet me: @Doc_G_

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. hilosophic perspectivesFunctionalist (the Machine metaphor)Forms organizations take are both indispensable and inevitable, as dictated by:Resources;Size;Product;Market.Manager's functions:Planning;Controlling;Organizing;Staffing;Innovating.Positivist (the Agent metaphor)Employees are driven by recognized self-interest. Organization is the realized sum of vectors of self-interest.Manager's functions:Interpersonal;Informational;Decisional.
  2. Wired.com harnesses readers to produce better contentWired.com has some of the most techno-savvy readers of any publication, and editor in chief Evan Hansen is not afraid to use them.As it turns out, the online publication has fostered symbiotic relationships with its blog readers in a variety of different ways, all of which have been beneficial both to Wired.com and to its sharp-minded readers.“You have the ability to reveal the story in progress, this sort of ‘process-is-content’ notion,” Hansen explained about blogging. “You reveal what you have, as it comes in, and then you invite the readers and the public to help you finish the story.”This method of reporting has improved blogging at Wired.com, particularly when Hansen and his colleagues have taken experimental risks that have become incredibly successful. Most prominent among these experiments is the Geekdad blog, which features posts from self-proclaimed “geek” dads and moms. The contributors submit one or two posts a week, typically about science or technology topics that appeal to parents and kids alike.Nintendo, NASA, and Legos are all fair game. Originally, the blog was run solely by Chris Anderson, but it became too much for one person to handle, so Anderson reached out to readers and asked whether any of them wanted to contribute.“He found some people who were very qualified to do it, and he took that chance,” Hansen said, “and it worked out.”“Worked out” is putting it mildly. Geekdad is now one of the most popular blogs on the site, and its contributors write posts for free — yes, free! — from all over the country. The blog’s unpaid editor, Ken Denmead, now has a book deal in the works as a direct result of the blog.As of April 15, 2009, Denmead has sent out a call for more contributors. If the past is any indication, he’s going to get responses from plenty of enthusiastic, knowledgeable participants — just the sort of people who fuel the content of Geekdad.As an editor who entrusts readers with blog content, Hansen laughed and said, “You’ve got to close your eyes a little bit and kind of just have faith that stuff that comes out is going to be in line with your brand and your sense of quality. It was a leap of faith, but it really turned out well. It’s an interesting and eclectic and, I think, very high quality publication now.”Hansen estimates that 20-25 percent of what gets blogged about at Wired.com either starts with or includes tips from readers. The site uses a feedback tool developed by Reddit specifically for Wired.com blogs that allows users to upload text and pictures and also assists with sorting the content offered by readers. When Cal Tech grad student Virgil Griffith introduced the Wikiscanner in 2007, the Threat Level blog at Wired.com asked readers to submit IP addresses of Wikipedia users who were editing the online encyclopedia to suit their own agenda.Using the Reddit tool to upload their findings to Threat Level, readers exposed hundreds of instances of corporate whitewashing on Wikipedia and then voted to determine the most appalling ones. In 2008, the project earned Wired.com a Knight-Batten award for innovation in journalism; Wired.com gave the $10,000 award to Wikiscanner creator Virgil Griffith.The kind of reader/blog interaction that changes journalism is, of course, only available on the Internet. Hansen emphasized that Wired.com has the advantage of being a stand-alone Web site with original content, as opposed to being an offshoot of a print publication. Although Conde Nast now owns both Wired magazine and Wired.com, the two publications remain separate in terms of staff and news stories.“The marriage back with the magazine has been very beneficial financially and otherwise,” Hansen said. “But, again, the structure here is that the Web site is considered to be its own business. We are very collaborative, and we share a brand, and we’re very respectful of the magazine…but we’re not the red-headed stepchild of a print publication.”While the magazine and the Web site have different modes of operation, Hansen observed that the fundamentals of journalism apply to both.“The most surprising thing is that the more we got into blogging, the more we realized it’s not all that different from ordinary news gathering,” he said. “The same rules apply in terms of accuracy, confirming information.”For the blogs, Hansen said the goal is not to be an aggregation site but rather to do original reporting.“Which means that you’ve got to pick up the phone,” he said. “You’ve got to talk to people. You’ve got to chase down facts and not just link to other people.”And, it seems, it also helps if you’re something of a risk-taker — with very smart readers.
  3. The “Myth” of the manager
  4. The “Myth” of the manager
  5. hilosophic perspectivesFunctionalist (the Machine metaphor)Forms organizations take are both indispensable and inevitable, as dictated by:Resources;Size;Product;Market.Manager's functions:Planning;Controlling;Organizing;Staffing;Innovating.Positivist (the Agent metaphor)Employees are driven by recognized self-interest. Organization is the realized sum of vectors of self-interest.Manager's functions:Interpersonal;Informational;Decisional.
  6. hilosophic perspectivesFunctionalist (the Machine metaphor)Forms organizations take are both indispensable and inevitable, as dictated by:Resources;Size;Product;Market.Manager's functions:Planning;Controlling;Organizing;Staffing;Innovating.Positivist (the Agent metaphor)Employees are driven by recognized self-interest. Organization is the realized sum of vectors of self-interest.Manager's functions:Interpersonal;Informational;Decisional.
  7. hilosophic perspectivesFunctionalist (the Machine metaphor)Forms organizations take are both indispensable and inevitable, as dictated by:Resources;Size;Product;Market.Manager's functions:Planning;Controlling;Organizing;Staffing;Innovating.Positivist (the Agent metaphor)Employees are driven by recognized self-interest. Organization is the realized sum of vectors of self-interest.Manager's functions:Interpersonal;Informational;Decisional.
  8. hilosophic perspectivesFunctionalist (the Machine metaphor)Forms organizations take are both indispensable and inevitable, as dictated by:Resources;Size;Product;Market.Manager's functions:Planning;Controlling;Organizing;Staffing;Innovating.Positivist (the Agent metaphor)Employees are driven by recognized self-interest. Organization is the realized sum of vectors of self-interest.Manager's functions:Interpersonal;Informational;Decisional.
  9. hilosophic perspectivesFunctionalist (the Machine metaphor)Forms organizations take are both indispensable and inevitable, as dictated by:Resources;Size;Product;Market.Manager's functions:Planning;Controlling;Organizing;Staffing;Innovating.Positivist (the Agent metaphor)Employees are driven by recognized self-interest. Organization is the realized sum of vectors of self-interest.Manager's functions:Interpersonal;Informational;Decisional.
  10. hilosophic perspectivesFunctionalist (the Machine metaphor)Forms organizations take are both indispensable and inevitable, as dictated by:Resources;Size;Product;Market.Manager's functions:Planning;Controlling;Organizing;Staffing;Innovating.Positivist (the Agent metaphor)Employees are driven by recognized self-interest. Organization is the realized sum of vectors of self-interest.Manager's functions:Interpersonal;Informational;Decisional.
  11.  The BackgroundI'll try to summarize things as quickly as possible, but it's all rather complicated so bear with me! Also keep in mind that I heard about this the same way a lot of people did - Digg, YouTube, Google, and some scattered mainstream Media coverage - so there may be holes in the story.Around January 16th 2008 some part of a back-alley online community titled Anonymous (aptly named because it is composed only of nameless members - they have no pseudonyms, aliases, or digital identities) decided that they were frustrated with the way The Church of Scientology has handled itself as an organization. They decided to try to do something about this frustration and pulled out the digital battle drums - which I assume involved a post on their community's site announcing the problems with Scientology and looking to see if anyone wanted to help do something about it.On January 21st someone uploaded a video to YouTube which ominously listed Anonymous' complaints and announced an Internet led "war" on the Church of Scientology (note the 2 million + views). Because Anonymous is anonymous I can't even try to guess how many people were involved at this point, but apparently it was enough to cause a decent amount of online buzz.The message was spread through various channels of the Internet - YouTube, Digg, online community forums, etc. They also got a blip or two on the mainstream media radar. The interesting part is that efforts weren't being organized by "leaders" - they were being organized completely via anonymous individuals using a public wiki, meaning anyone could change anything (much like you see on Wikipedia).Over the next few weeks members of Anonymous began to harass Scientology and continued to make the occasional "press release". More importantly, though, vloggers, bloggers, and countless other individuals gave their two cents through response videos on YouTube, comments on Digg, and contributions to the blogosphere. Some supported the movement, some just felt it was going to be interesting to watch, and some condemned Anonymous as misguided "cyber-terrorists", unscrupulous, or simply boring; however it seemed their cause was resonating with people, generating attention, and even starting to be discussed outside of the Internet.At this point a few more Internet-focused mainstream media folks took notice and mentioned it in various segments. Known critics of the Church of Scientology like Mark Bunker also chimed in and offered advice and criticisms of the anonymous efforts. After listening to the Internet response and gaining support, the anonymous digital harassment changed to legal, more traditional methods. Someone else uploaded a video to YouTube announcing plans for international protests on February 10th.For me these "real life" protests, where 6000+ people protested in 70+ different cities around the world, are what pushed this whole debacle from "interesting to watch" to "what can we learn from this". This takes us to today, where another round of protests is being planned for March 15th.One of Anonymous' forums has a compiled list of links to local and national news coverage. I would definitely recommend watching some of the news reports if you want to learn more.Key Success FactorsThat's the story as I've seen it, so the question to ask now is how did they do it? How did a fairly small group of completely anonymous individuals manage to generate several million views worth of buzz on the internet? And finally, how did they actually bridge the gap and apply that buzz into real, physical world protests? Thinking about it may help inspire thoughts about where digital media is now, where it can go, and what would improve it.Google in the middleApril 10, 2009Three truths:1. Google is a middleman made of software. It's a very, very large middleman made of software. Think of what Goliath or the Cyclops or Godzilla would look like if they were made of software. That's Google.2. The middleman acts in the middleman's interest.3. The broader the span of the middleman's control over the exchanges that take place in a market, the greater the middleman's power and the lesser the power of the suppliers.For much of the first decade of the Web's existence, we were told that the Web, by efficiently connecting buyer and seller, or provider and user, would destroy middlemen. Middlemen were friction, and the Web was a friction-removing machine.We were misinformed. The Web didn't kill mediators. It made them stronger. The way a company makes big money on the Web is by skimming little bits of money off a huge number of transactions, with each click counting as a transaction. (Think trillions of transactions.) The reality of the web is hypermediation, and Google, with its search and search-ad monopolies, is the king of the hypermediators.Which brings us to everybody's favorite business: the news. Newspapers, or news syndicators like the Associated Press, bemoan the power of the middlemen, or aggregators, to get between them and their readers. They particularly bemoan the power of Google, because Google wields, by far, the greatest power. The editor of the Wall Street Journal, Robert Thomson, calls Google a "tapeworm." His boss, Rupert Murdoch, says Google is engaged in "stealing copyrights."Others see Thomson and Murdoch as hypocritical crybabies. To them, Google is the good guy, the benevolent middleman that fairly parcels out traffic, by the trillions of page views, to a multitude of hungry web sites. It's the mommy bird dropping little worm fragments into the mouths of all the baby birds. Scott Rosenberg points out that Google makes it simple for newspapers or any other site operators to opt out of its general search engine and all of its subsidiary search services, including Google News. "Participation in Google is voluntary," he writes. Yet no one opts out. Participation is not only voluntary but "is also pretty much universal, because of the benefits. When users are seeking what you have, it’s good to be found."Rosenberg is correct, but he misses, or chooses not to acknowledge, the larger point. When a middleman controls a market, the supplier has no real choice but to work with the middleman - even if the middleman makes it impossible for the supplier to make money. Given the choice, most people will choose to die of a slow wasting disease rather than to have their head blown off with a bazooka. But that doesn't mean that dying of a slow wasting disease is pleasant.As Tom Sleeexplains, Google's role as the dominant middleman in the digital content business resembles Wal-Mart's role as the dominant middleman in the consumer products business. Because of the vastness of Wal-Mart's market share, consumer goods companies have little choice but to sell their wares through the retailing giant, even if the retailing giant squeezes their profit margin to zilch. It's called leverage: Play by our rules, or die.Sometimes "voluntary" isn't really "voluntary."When it comes to Google and other aggregators, newspapers face a sort of prisoners' dilemma. If one of them escapes, their competitors will pick up the traffic they lose. But if all of them stay, none of them will ever get enough traffic to make sufficient money. So they all stay in the prison, occasionally yelling insults at their jailer through the bars on the door.None of this, by the way, should be taken as criticism of Google. Google is simply pursuing its own interests - those interests just happen to be very different from the interests of the news companies. What Google can, and should, be criticized for is its disingenuousness. In an official response to the recent criticism of its control over news-seeking traffic, Google rolled out one of its lawyers, who put on his happy face and wrote: "Users like me are sent from different Google sites to newspaper websites at a rate of more than a billion clicks per month. These clicks go to news publishers large and small, domestic and international - day and night. And once a reader is on the newspaper's site, we work hard to help them earn revenue. Our AdSense program pays out millions of dollars to newspapers that place ads on their sites."Wow. "A billion clicks." "Millions of dollars." Such big numbers. What Google doesn't mention is that the billions of clicks and the millions of ad dollars are so fragmented among so many thousands of sites that no one site earns enough to have a decent online business. Where the real money ends up is at the one point in the system where traffic is concentrated: the Google search engine. Google's overriding interest is to (a) maximize the amount and velocity of the traffic flowing through the web and (b) ensure that as large a percentage of that traffic as possible goes through its search engine and is exposed to its ads. One of the most important ways it accomplishes that goal is to promote the distribution of as much free content as possible through as many sites as possible on the web. For Google, any concentration of traffic at content sites is anathema; it would represent a shift of power from the middleman to the supplier. Google wants to keep that traffic fragmented. The suppliers of news have precisely the opposite goal.Take a look at the top topic on Google News right now:Look, in particular, at the number of stories on this topic that Google already has in its database: 11,264. That's a staggeringly large number. To Google, it's a beautiful number. To the 11,264 news sites competing for a measly little page view, and the infinitesimal fraction of a penny the view represents, it's death.As I've written before, the essential problem facing the online news business is oversupply. The cure isn't pretty. It requires, first, a massive reduction of production capacity - ie, the consolidation or disappearance of lots of news outlets. Second, and dependent on that reduction of production capacity, it requires news organizations to begin to impose controls on their content. By that, I don't mean preventing bloggers from posting fair-use snippets of articles. I mean curbing the rampant syndication, authorized or not, of full-text articles. Syndication makes sense when articles remain on the paper they were printed on. It doesn't make sense when articles float freely across the global web. (Take note, AP.)Once the news business reduces supply, it can begin to consolidate traffic, which in turn consolidates ad revenues and, not least, opens opportunities to charge subscription fees of one sort or another - opportunities that today, given the structure of the industry, seem impossible. With less supply, the supplier gains market power at the expense of the middleman.The fundamental problem facing the news business today does not lie in Google's search engine. It lies in the structure of the news business itself.http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/live-blogging-the-new-hampshire-debate/