The Tavistock Clinic, later Institute, which applied psychoanalytic theory to organizations. Chris Argyris’s concepts of defensive reasoning and Model 1 vs Model 2 organizations , published in the 1970s and 80s. The single biggest group of books and articles we read, though, had to do with business as a social system. In the 2.0

This is now the third investment Accel has made recently in Australian tech companies, rounding out its $60 million investment in Atlassian and $70+ million into OzForex. We have tapped some of this Australian expertise for our events, notably our Future of Crowdsourcing Summit , held last November simultaneously in Sydney and San Francisco.