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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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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Since we come face to face with it so frequently in the enterprise, it’s always a good idea to keep abreast of what SharePoint offers when it comes to E2.0. I blogged before about how Microsoft is avoiding rolling content creation capabilities into the platform to preserve other revenue streams, but there is  still a [...]

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Stewart Mader, the mastermind behind Wikipatterns, recently asked us to guest blog. Clearly he was either experiencing a temporary lapse in judgement, or had been drinking heavily at the time but nonetheless, the post is up!
Go check it out and make sure to browse the rest of his great content. Thanks Stewart!

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