| Nonprofit Online News is a publication that bridges multiple communities. It is therefore with some interest that I read Ronald Burt's paper on the Social Origins of Good Ideas (PDF), in which he shows that good ideas happen at the intersections of communities, rather than at the center of any given community, where thoughts tend to be more homogeneous. I see this phenomenon all the time in my work with grantmakers.
Posted: 4/8/04; 11:55:03 AM # |
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