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    Aligning Employees Through \u3ci\u3eLine of Sight\u3c/i\u3e

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    Aligning employees with the firm’s larger strategic goals is critical if organizations hope to manage their human capital effectively and ultimately attain strategic success. An important component of attaining and sustaining this alignment is whether employees have “line of sight” to the organization’s strategic objectives. We illustrate how the translation of strategic goals into tangible results requires that employees not only understand the organization’s strategy, they must accurately understand what actions are aligned with realizing that strategy. Using recent empirical evidence, theoretical insights, and tangible examples of exemplary firm practices, we provide thought-leaders with a comprehensive view of LOS, how it is created, how it can be enhanced or stifled, and how it can be effectively managed. We integrate LOS with current thinking on employee alignment to help managers more effectively benefit from understanding human capital potential

    On the search for space in the digital city: a dispatch from Granary Square

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    In understanding the impact of the future or smart city on daily experiences of urban inhabitation, many of the inherited terms are unhelpful and send us into dichotomies between the imagined digital and the real, or suggest fantastical ways in which the two merge

    Future of cities: commoning and collective approaches to urban space

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    Many of the public spaces in cities are actually privately owned. This essay looks at the practice of ‘commoning’ - creating spaces in the city owned and maintained by the local community. The essay was commissioned as part of the Foresight future of cities project

    Book review: Victor Buchli (2013), an anthropology of architecture

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    The Student-Worker Crisis in France May-June, 1968

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    Connected or informed?: local Twitter networking in a London neighbourhood

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    This paper asks whether geographically localised, or ‘hyperlocal’, uses of Twitter succeed in creating peer-to-peer neighbourhood networks or simply act as broadcast media at a reduced scale. Literature drawn from the smart cities discourse and from a UK research project into hyperlocal media, respectively, take on these two opposing interpretations. Evidence gathered in the case study presented here is consistent with the latter, and on this basis we criticise the notion that hyperlocal social media can be seen as a community in itself. We demonstrate this by creating a network map of Twitter followers of a popular hyperlocal blog in Brockley, southeast London. We describe various attributes of this network including its average degree and clustering coefficient to suggest that a small and highly connected cluster of visible local entities such as businesses form a clique at the centre of this network, with individual residents following these but not one another. We then plot the locations of these entities and demonstrate that sub-communities in the network are formed due to close geographical proximity between smaller sets of businesses. These observations are illustrated with qualitative evidence from interviews with users who suggest instead that rather than being connected to one another they benefit from what has been described as ‘neighbourhood storytelling’. Despite the limitations of working with Twitter data, we propose that this multi-modal approach offers a valuable way to investigate the experience of using social media as a communication tool in urban neighbourhoods

    Making cultural infrastructure: can we design the conditions for culture?

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    This is a report by Theatrum Mundi on a research project that asked “can we design the conditions for culture?

    A. C. V. R. Purchased 40 Acres for $50.00 from the State of Michigan

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    A document or -patent- stating that A.C.V.R. purchased forty acres for $50.00 from the State of Michigan. The document is signed by Findley J. Bingham, Governor, and John McKinsey?, Secretary of State. The certificate is numbered 3145.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1180/thumbnail.jp
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