{"id":1210,"date":"2011-05-04T09:27:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2011-05-04T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T17:56:43","slug":"inviting-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/05\/04\/inviting-business\/","title":{"rendered":"inviting business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>euan semple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euansemple.com\/theobvious\/2011\/5\/4\/literate-business.html\">muses today<\/a> about what to call our new way(s) of doing social-media-powered business.  He suggests the term &#8220;literate business.&#8221; my response:<\/p>\n<p>my dad used to work in public relations for ford motor company.  along the way he wrote things like the marker at henry ford&#8217;s birthplace and materials that went out to every ford shareholder, sometimes speeches, too, i think.  when i was learning to write in grade school, he told me &#8220;the last thing you do when you write, is write.&#8221;  think, feel, sense&#8230; sort&#8230; write.<\/p>\n<p>literate doesn&#8217;t fit for me.  i always go back to the dictionary on these things, to have a look at the old shape of these things.  literate: scholarly, learned.  but what you&#8217;ve actually described seems more reflective than literate.  then i wondered about articulated, annotated, and examined.  the unexamined business is not worth&#8230;?  <\/p>\n<p>and then i come back to the stuff i started working on 10+ years ago, this story of &#8220;inviting organization.&#8221;  perhaps what you&#8217;re talking about is &#8220;inviting business.&#8221;  (see <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelherman.com\/inviting\">InvitingOrganizationEmerges<\/a> for the full story.)  in essence, these new tools and practices you&#8217;re talking about are for actively inviting new business, and simultaneously require the thinking, feeling, sensing, and reflecting that must inform our actually being inviting, connecting people.  <\/p>\n<p>for me, &#8220;inviting business&#8221; captures all of the inner, subjective, and aspirational AND all of the outer, objective, and technically practical (practice-able) dimensions of personal practice, collaborative work, and business organization today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>euan semple muses today about what to call our new way(s) of doing social-media-powered business. He suggests the term &#8220;literate business.&#8221; my response: my dad used to work in public relations for ford motor company. along the way he wrote things like the marker at henry ford&#8217;s birthplace and materials that went out to every &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/05\/04\/inviting-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;inviting business&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inviting-leadership","category-practice","category-social-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}