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24 Apr 09

Joho the Blog » The future of the book

  • Then John Palfrey gave a talk about how the world and books look to those born into the digital age. To these digital natives, said John, the world doesn’t divide into online and offline; it’s all converged. They assume digital access. (YouTube is the #2 search engine, JP said.) They expect to be co-creators. They also give away too much information and need to learn to do for themselves the gatekeeping that used to be done for them. The opportunities are huge, JP said, for creativity, reuse, and making knowledge together. JP expects libraries will continue to become social spaces where we learn and explore together, and he expects physical books to persevere because they are so well engineered for knowledge and extended argument.
14 Apr 09

The Alienation of the Striving Middle Class - BusinessWeek

  • In the coming years a company's success will depend on how well it helps employees integrate the domains of their fractured lives.



    Conley says we blur our professional and private lives, mostly through the use of technology.

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07 Apr 09

4+2 = Sustained Business Success — HBS Working Knowledge

  • "What really works?" we wondered. Our curiosity prompted us to undertake a major, multiyear research effort in which we carefully examined more than 200 well-established management practices as they were employed over a ten-year period by 160 companies.
  • What does matter, it turns out, is having a strong grasp of the business basics. Without exception, companies that outperformed their industry peers excelled at what we call the four primary management practices—strategy, execution, culture, and structure.
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