michael e casey

Stop Telling Your Employees What to Do

2013-05-03T13:35:58Z

By Jordan Cohen at HBR: It turns out there is a scientific reason why employees are less effective when tasks are dictated. Amy Arnsten, a neuroscience professor at Yale University, studies the importance of feeling in control. Her studies can be applied to employee autonomy in managing a team. In an interview at her Yale [...]

Interview with Lee Rainie and John Seely Brown

2011-10-24T01:56:25Z

Erik Boekesteijn has a great interview with Lee Rainie and John Seely Brown. TWIL #57: Lee Rainie and John Seely Brown from Jaap van de Geer on Vimeo.

Revisiting Participatory Service in Trying Times

2011-10-25T18:47:10Z

The following post first appeared on Tame the Web. Note from Michael Stephens : I am honored to have written over two years of The Transparent Library with Michael Casey. I am pleased he took me up on an offer to do a guest post about participatory service for the Salzburg Global Seminar week. I asked him to explore [...]

My Personal Debt to Steve Jobs

2011-10-06T00:37:47Z

I was writing a post about the iPhone when the news of the death of Steve Jobs came across my Google+ stream. Only a minute later my phone started humming with the plethora of texts that are still coming in as I write this. Jobs touched so many people. In the coming days and weeks, [...]

Guy Kawasaki on Triangulation

2011-10-05T16:48:25Z

“Facebook is a family reunion and Google+ is a party.” Interesting interview with former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki. He’s also the author of Enchantment. Guy has an interesting take on the sense of entitlement some people feel towards internet giants like Facebook and Google. His ideas and opinions are always intelligent, unique, and often quite accurate.