---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga <t...@okfn.org.br> Date: 2015-08-06 12:51 GMT-03:00 Subject: Open Knowledge Entrepreneurship Reference Resources To: Open Knowledge Foundation Local Coordinators Mailing List < okfn-local-co...@lists.okfn.org>
Folks, I've started a wiki page for us fill out with references resources on entrepreneurship http://wiki.okfn.org/Entrepreneurship_Reference_Resources Please, do add book, articles, organizations, ideas etc.. that wiil support our internacional communities to run local sustainable projects and organizations. A few years I've sent it here, but an important thing on my opinion is how we deal with our mistakes and admit them, when they happen. "We have a conundrum. It is really hard to talk about failure. Admitting Failure is here to help. This is a community and a resource, created to establish new levels of transparency, collaboration and innovation within civil society. Fear, embarrassment, and intolerance of failure drives our learning underground. No more. Failure is strength. The most effective and innovative organizations are those that are willing to speak openly about their failures. Because the only truly "bad" failure is one that's repeated." Source: https://www.admittingfailure.org/ And our open way of working make us stronger about it, althought difficult sometimes "The main difference between science and stage magic is that in science you make your mistakes in public. You show them off, so that everybody can learn from them--not just yourself. This way, you get the benefit of everybody else's experience, and not just your own idiosyncratic path through the space of mistakes. This, by the way, is what makes us so much smarter than every other species. It is not so much that our brains are bigger or more powerful, but that we share the benefits that our individual brains have won by their individual histories of trial and error. The secret is knowing when and how to make mistakes, so that nobody gets hurt and everybody can learn from the experience. It is amazing to me how many really smart people don't understand this. I know distinguished researchers who will go to preposterous lengths to avoid having to acknowledge that they were wrong about something--even something quite trivial. What they have never noticed, apparently, is that the earth does not swallow people up when they say, "Oops, you're right. I guess I made a mistake." You will find that people love pointing out your mistakes. If they are generous-spirited, they will appreciate you more for giving them the opportunity to help, and acknowledging it when they succeed, and if they are mean-spirited they will enjoy showing you up. Either way, you--and we all--win."" Source: http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/howmista.htm That's a small short list for us to expend. I'm sure several people here have read other things to suggest. Cheers, Tom Open Knowledge Brazil
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