The MiX has cultivated this impressive group of Mavericks--all pretty big names, and impressive management thinkers. But there's not really any mechanism for MiX-ers to leverage those Mavericks. Honestly, it almost seems like they are token names (who each have a few videos, and perhaps a blog post or two)...

This is an adaptation of a sophisticated, perhaps patentable framework that I have painstakingly developed and implemented over the years to bust silos and build community. I've taken my 326-page dissertation on the subject and boiled it down to these five easy steps, customized specifically for the MIX:

1. Pick two
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In my experience, really good content comes from the back and forth conversation among the content creators. I guess this is my bias as a blogger. But I find the Mix posts, with their rigid structure, and sources, etc. to come across as very finished projects. I read them, and...

Invite MIX users to select several categories of preferred participation. Introduce intermediate step for new item acceptance, based on announcement sent to relevant category participants, prior to appearance of the new item on the site -- or alternate short term delay in permitted appearance of new item without peer review....