Today’s networked era requires a new way to make investment decisions that incorporates intangible assets and more accurately depicts how value is created. The network era now replacing the industrial age holds great promise. In the network era, things you can’t see are more valuable than things you can. Look at Chrysler. MORE >>

There are three key trends or periods that I’d like to highlight: Phase 1 : September, 2001 through June, 2004. Phase 2 : July, 2004 through July 2008. And yes, those that read my musings in this space may be wondering, “but dp, you’re a social learning/networking/media freak … how can you be stating this?”. In one word … yes. MORE >>

I would like to make just one point, that it is not "Siemen's 'Connectivism,'" that he gave a name to a theory and approach a number of us had been working on for some time. don't mind saying I borrow the name from him, but I would certainly say this is as much my theory (and that of numerous other people) as it is his. We all invented connectivis MORE >>

Forbes.com Video Network: Weed Out the Bad Seed. As regular readers of Work Matters know, since I published The No Asshole Rule in 2007 (or really, since I published a short essay on the rule  in Harvard Business Review in 2004) I have since been deluged with stories about certified assholes of every stripe. Bob Sutton. Search. MORE >>

» November 12, 2007 Some Thoughts on Multidisciplinary Innovation The 2004 US National Innovation Initiative succinctly pointed out that "[Innovation] is multidisciplinary and technologically complex. It arises from the intersections of different fields or spheres of activity." This is not surprising. Why is it so difficult? MORE >>