Andrew McAfee reflects on a dinner with Eric Schmidt during last week’s Management 2.0 conference (I’m excited to read the findings; it looks like they get posted later this month). McAfee’s question to Scmidt: What about Google’s management style is so powerful, yet still transferable to other organizations?
“They can learn to listen. Listening to each [...]

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Earlier this year, amidst intense rabble rousing to herald the arrival of 08, I had what at the time seemed like a vision. Perhaps even an epiphany. Dare I say…a revelation. Admittedly, most things that penetrated my champagne haze were met with an internal “dude…that is a great idea” but unlike my notion of genetically [...]

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IT Project Failures has been examining the all to frequent phenomenon of government IT project failures. Central to the analysis - typically opaque bureaucracies shy away from revealing their internal machinations, especially when it has to do with something as complex as large IT projects.
What can government leaders can do to improve the situation? 

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In “In the Air: Who says big ideas are rare?”, Malcom Gladwell describes how Intellectual Ventures works to bring together really smart people from different disciplines -physicians, physicists, inventors - in the hopes of generating a vast number of profitable patents. The company puts a group of creative, inventive people in the same room and [...]

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