Riesman in fact tied this shift explicitly to the needs of the modern organization. The rise of the push driven organization and its implications for the individual. They learn that their needs are not important but that their status and rewards hinge on being externally focused on the needs of the organization. MORE >>

Smaller, entrepreneurial organizations of course buck this trend, but what happens as soon as they start to scale?  The recent book, Race Against The Machine , has caught the imagination of a growing body of readers. The economic impact of technological progress. They say the problem is even more stark because “. What is to be done? MORE >>

These institutional innovations will be far more difficult for Western companies to appropriate precisely because they challenge basic assumptions about roles and relationships across companies, not just the way individual companies are organized or managed. Early view of innovation. Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Reverse innovation. MORE >>

  The annual TED event that I attended was organized around the broad theme of the rediscovery of wonder. What fills you with wonder? What do you wonder about? These different, but related questions were posed often during the TED event last week.  They seriously under-estimate what is going on. The convergence of edges. MORE >>

For Richard, economic landscape is not just a metaphor, it is quite literally the way we organize ourselves across the land. Here’s a paradox.    Silicon Valley’s success hinges on an explosive mix of people and place.  Richard Florida, on the other hand, is all about people and place.  Sound familiar?  MORE >>