In a recent post at the paidContent blog, Tom Weber praises Amazon’s Kindle because it lets him return to ‘unitasking’ – doing one thing at a time, in this case reading books, newspapers, and magazines. He writes that “Scrolling through an online newspaper or magazine can be like strolling down a state-fair midway, with dozens [...]...
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My friend Don Sull and I met in HBS’s doctoral program, which we both slogged through in the mid 1990s. He’s now cranking out mounds of good work at London Business School, and also blogging for the Financial Times.
His current work concentrates on helping companies navigate their increasingly turbulent competitive environments, and his most recent [...]...
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Matthew Fraser recently wrote a blog post on the state and pace of the publishing industry, using as an example my book Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges, which will be published this fall by Harvard Business Press. Fraser mentions the Facebook group “The Urgency of NOW. Move it up, HBP,’” [...]...
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Before I was an analyst, I can remember lamenting why the people in our industry were so obsessed with chips and operating systems. It was around the time when DEC released the Alpha RISC chip, and rivalry between the different strains of UNIX and Windows was at its highest point. The horse race between BSD, [...]...
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A June 25 post to the New York Times Bits blog starts with “To get the best predictions about when your company’s latest product will ship or how it will sell, you might try asking your employees — anonymously.” A skeptical but fair response to this is something like “Sure, I might, but why should [...]...
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The Enterprise 2.0 conference took place last week in Boston, and was by all accounts a large success (I am on its advisory board). If you couldn’t make it, a good way to get an idea of what happened is to do twitter searches on #e2conf (the hashtag for the conference as a whole) and [...]...
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Harvard Business Press has made the first chapter of my book Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for your Organization’s Toughest Challenges available for download (after you give them a name and email address).
I hope it whets your appetite and leads to massive volumes of preorders. More seriously, I hope it piques your interest in the [...]...
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A Pattern Language, published in 1979 by Christopher Alexander and his colleagues, was a landmark book in architecture that also became a landmark in other fields like computer science; one review called it “The decade’s best candidate for a permanently important book.”
It identifies architectural patterns at three levels – towns, buildings, and construction – that [...]...
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I am a huge fan of the TV series “Mad Men,” which has aired for two seasons on AMC. The show revolves around the employees of Sterling Cooper, a fictional Madison Avenue ad agency in the early 1960s. It’s written and filmed with the intelligence and attention to detail that we’ve come to expect from [...]...
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Even though I’m heading down the river to a sweet gig at MIT, my affiliation with Harvard will continue. I’ve been named a fellow at the University’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, starting in July. This is a real honor, and I’m very grateful.
The Berkman Center, which started at the Law School, is [...]...
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