performance

Over the last few years, management gurus Malone, Hagel, and now Hamel have published books on innovative management and new technologies - social network tools and community software applications. Here's a taste of what Gary Hamel has to say...

"Innovative management: A conversation with Gary Hamel, from Mckinsey quarterly (reg req).

Inside organizations, we have the longtail of ideas and information that needs to be connected to people, places, and things. The longtail, or maybe the edge, is where some of the best ideas originate to improve performance.  I haven't read a book in some time but Chris's new book about the longtail will certainly be one that motivates me enough to buy it and read it.

"A Star Is Made", from The NYTimes, By STEPHEN J. DUBNER and STEVEN D. LEVITT

So says Anders Ericsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University.

A tribute to one of Silicon Valley's most influential and forgotten researchers at Xerox PARC event From SiliconValleyWatcher.com by Tom Foremski. Tom has started a series on one the the valley's early icons: Doug Engelbart. You might know him as the inventor of the mouse. How about Moore's law, and timesharing in which many users can share one computer? Paradoxically, it was timesharing that sparked the pc revolution.

A study form Northwestern University Linking Organizational Characteristics to Employee Attitudes and Behavior - A Look at the Downstream Effects on Market Response & Financial Performance (pdf). I love these studies. I read a similar one that HBR published last year.