Writing this on the plane back from the International Workshop of Electronic Payment and E-commerce in China - held in Chengdu - the multimillion capital of Sechuan. As always amazed by the speed of progress in China and the hospitality and puzzled by the challenge to the environment that the economic growth there and everywhere else pose.

My presentation was dealing with e-business- and e-public- sector-embedded e-banking - much focusing on e-commerce payments and e-invoicing as stressed also in this blog earlier.

Took to re-reading one of my favorites: David Weinberger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined - one iconic book for sure. Picked up the following:

Space
The real-world treats it as measurable distances indifferent to human needs.
The web as links among pages representing a spring of human interest.

Time
Real-world: ticking clocks and the relentless schedules they enable.
The Web: time runs as intertwining threads and stories

Perfection
Real-world: an ideal we humans always disappoint
The Web: perfection just gets in the way

Social groups
Real-world: becomes more impersonal as they grow
The Web: individuals retain their faces no matter how large the group becomes

Matter
Real-world: stuff that exists independent of us
The Web: pages that we have built full of intention and meaning

Moral
Real-world: we follow a set of principles
The Web: authenticity, emphaty and enthusiasm guide our interactions

And much more that should be realized by all sorts of management today.