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Episode 0012: Communities of Practice

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Show Notes

  • - Host: Dan Hugo
  • - Summary: Many individuals, groups, and even communities in the Greater Vegas Entrepreneurial Ecosystem share not only concerns and challenges, but skills and ideas, except that the sharing is done at a distance. Can a Community of Practice approach bridge the gaps?


    • What is a Community of Practice?

    • - Proposed by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger circa 2015
    • - “Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.”
    • - A real community of practice includes intention and direction of some kind, and is almost certainly incompatible with the notion of Serendipitous Collision.


      • Community vs Communities

      • - Is there benefit having multiple communities of practice? What about regular communities?
      • - What if they are insular? Isolated?
      • - A community of communities in our Entrepreneurial Ecosystem


        • Assurance Game and Community Erosion

        • - Do you encounter Assurance Games in our Greater Vegas Entrepreneurial Ecosystem?
        • - What happens when the Hare interrupts The Stag Hunt
        • - What can we in our individual and larger communities do to counter this alleged erosion?


          • Go forth and Practice

          • - Genius Roundtable is one evolving example, you can do this also!
          • - Proactively plan and curate your Community of Practice to yield a return to participants and advancement toward the goal or goals of the community
          • - Build bridges and connect with other Communities of Practice for productive collaboration!


            • Links

            • - Introduction to Communities of Practice https://www.wenger-trayner.com/introduction-to-communities-of-practice/
            • - Creating Communities of Practice https://www.communityofpractice.ca/background/what-is-a-community-of-practice/
            • - Kauffman Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building Playbook 3.0 Draft 2019 https://www.kauffman.org/ecosystem-playbook-draft-3/
            • - Wikipedia on Stag Hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_hunt


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