Knowledge brokering is more productively viewed as a structural need than an innovation strategy, tacked onto existing functional processes. As a component of organizational structure, it can obtain the more formal attention it deserves while benefiting from the deeper understanding that other disciplines provide. [...]
One of the fundamental rules of programmming is never to hard code the technology, or to touch the source of third party vendors. IE6 proves we never learn. And it is costing us big bucks. The solution is simple. [...]
Interviews with Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank. [...]
Taylor and Weber brought statistics to management. Unfortunately their concepts often also engendered an unhealthy and unproductive chasm between the new management positions it implied and the workers it no longer asked to think. [...]
Everyone has the innate ability to innovate, create, fail, and adapt if only the rules allow it. Given the proper combinations of elements, reliability and creativity can amplify together, much as reconstituted wood chips form a bond stronger than the original tree. [...]
Organizations both in their structure and their strategy often make bets against the individual, and they continue to do so in pendulum like swings in both micro and macro trends. Like the computer hardware industry, they always eventually lose. [...]
