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Inflection

Kim Patrick Kobza

Business Service Networks will change the world. Let’s learn from our peers with best of class dialogue.

The operating principles of this discussion are peer learning, professional and respectful discussion, creating value, supporting results, and building networks with exceptional insights.

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Where I will be...

Naples All Week

Thinking About

I am thinking about...

Growing Neighborhood America
Leadership
What it takes to be special
Complexity
Simplicity
Network science.

I read every day..week....Read Most Days

Wall Street
Business Week
Barron’s
CNET
New York Times
Washington Post
USA Today
PC World
PC Magazine
Scientific American -The Mind
Fortune
Forbes
Wired
Fast Company
The Nation
Men’s Health
I-Media
Kara Swisher Boomtown
Silicon Alley Insider
Silicon Valley.com

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Core Reading

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Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Governing by Network

Stephen Goldsmith, William Eggers

Flow

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Neil Shuban

Knowledge in a Social World

Albert Laszio Barabarsi

The Chasm Companion

Paul Weiffels

The Structure and Dynamics of Networks

Mark Newman, Albert Lazio, Barbarasi, Duncan Watts

Predictably Irrational

Dan Ariely

The Mind of the Market

Michael Shermer

Laws of the Web, The Ecology of Information

Bernardo Huberman

The Social Life of Information

John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid

Infotopia

Cass R. Sustein

Barbarians at the Gate

Bryan Burrough and John Helvar

Primates and Philosophers, How Morality Evolved

Frances De Waal

Human, the Science Behind What Makes Us Unique

Michael S. Gazzaniga

Comfortable With Uncertainty,

Pema Chodron

The Future and Its Enemies

Virginia Postrel

Brain Rules

John Medina

The Wealth of Networks

Yochai Benkler

The Hidden Power of Social Networks

Rob Cross

The Cluetrain Manifesto

Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger

Six Degrees The Science of a Connected Age

Duncan J. Watts

A Social Ontology

David Weissman

The Rise of the Networked Society

Manuel Castells

Community, The Structure of Belonging

Consequential Strangers

Melinda Blau and Karen Fingerman

Change by Design

Tim Brown

Connected

Nicholas A. Christakis

The Age of Empathy

Frans De Waal

Six Pixels of Separation

Mitch Joel

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Background

In a parallel universe I am the CEO of Neighborhood America. We are a technology company that builds enterprise social networks. Though this is not an “opinion blog” the thoughts that are published here are my own and not necessarily those of Neighborhood America.