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Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics

Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics

by Eric D. Beinhocker

Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this system? And how can wealth be increased for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and society? In The Origin of Wealth, Eric D. Beinhocker argues that modern science provides a radical perspective on these age-old... (more)

Inside Steve's Brain

by Leander Kahney

Steve Jobs has turned his personality traits into a business philosophy. Here’s how he does it. It’s hard to believe that one man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and ’80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and digital music in the 2000s (with the iPod and iTunes). No wonder some people worship him like a god. On the other hand, stories of his epic tantrums and... (more)

Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke--the Simple Change That Can Make Your Job Terrific

Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke--the Simple Change That Can Make Your Job Terrific

by Cali Ressler

Do you hate cramming all of your errands into the weekend? Do you resent having to beg permission to watch your kid’s weekday soccer game? Are you tired of seeing people who aren’t very good at their jobs get promoted because they arrive early and stay late? There’s got to be a better way—and there is! Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson show that everyone benefits when we change the focus from hours to... (more)

The Long Tail

Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

by Chris Anderson

What happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone? "The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. From supermarket... (more)

Workforce Wake-Up Call: Your Workforce is Changing, Are You

Workforce Wake-Up Call: Your Workforce is Changing, Are You

Praise for Workforce Wake-Up Call "Great questions + great thinkers = novel ideas. Workforce Wake-Up Call deals with the challenges of getting, revitalizing, treating (engaging), and leading talent in today's workplace. These talent issues are at the core of successful organizations. And the authors deal with these challenges as a marvelous mix of theory, research, and practice. This anthology offers... (more)

Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World

Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World

by Tyler Cowen

One of the most respected behavioral economists in the world and coauthor of the “best economics blog in the universe”* offers an essential guide to success in a radically new hyper-networked age. How will we live well in a super-networked, information-soaked, yet predictably irrational world? The only way to know is to understand how the way we think is changing. As economist Tyler Cowen boldly shows in ... (more)

Reinvent Your Enterprise

by Jack Bergstrand

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Telecosm : how infinite bandwidth will revolutionize our world

Telecosm : how infinite bandwidth will revolutionize our world

by George Gilder

The computer age is over. After a cataclysmic global run of thirty years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosm -- the world enabled and defined by new communications technology. Chips and software will continue to make great contributions to our lives, but the action is elsewhere. To seek the key to great wealth and to understand the bewildering ways that high tech is restructuring our lives, look not... (more)

Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People

Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People

by Charles A. O'Reilly

Discover How the Best Companies Win Not By Acquiring the Right People—But By Building the Right Organization The "war for talent" is one battle every company believes it should be waging. But while competitors are busy chasing after the same "hot" individuals, smart companies are doing something infinitely more useful and far more difficult to copy—they're building organizations that make it possible for... (more)

The Social Life of Information

by John Seely Brown

All New Preface by the Authors For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate everything-from supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. But beaten down by info-glut, exasperated by computer crashes, and daunted by the dot com crash, individual users find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution. John Seely Brown and Paul... (more)

Leading the Revolution

by Gary Hamel

Gary Hamel, world-renowned business thinker and co-author of Competing for the Future , the book that set the management agenda for the 1990s, now brings us Leading the Revolution . An action plan-indeed, an incendiary device-for any company or individual intent on becoming and staying an industry revolutionary, this book will ignite the passions of entry-level assistants, neophyte managers, seasoned VPs, CEOs,... (more)

The Knowledge Web : From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back -- And Other Journeys Through Knowledge

The Knowledge Web : From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back -- And Other Journeys Through Knowledge

by James Lee Burke

In The Knowledge Web, James Burke, the bestselling author and host of television's Connections series, takes us on a fascinating tour through the interlocking threads of knowledge running through Western history. Displaying mesmerizing flights of fancy, he shows how seemingly unrelated ideas and innovations bounce off one another, spinning a vast, interactive web on which everything is connected to everything... (more)

The Theory of the Growth of the Firm

by Edith Tilton Penrose

Why do some firms perform better than others? What enables a firm to grow and take advantage of its opportunities? Currently much discussion of these questions pivots around the ideas of competencies and capabilities, and the concept of the learning organization or knowledge-creating company. The Theory of the Growth of the Firm is a rich and pioneering work that addresses these questions and laid the... (more)

Human Capital: What It Is and Why People Invest It (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)

Human Capital: What It Is and Why People Invest It (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)

by Thomas O. Davenport

No longer mere company "assets," today's in-demand workers have become free agents who can and do invest their ability, behavior, and energy-their human capital-in the companies of their choice. And the companies they choose, the companies that will win in the marketplace, will be the ones that know how to create and deliver the best return on that investment. In this book, author Thomas O. Davenport explores the... (more)

The Most Effective Organization in the U.S.: Leadership Secrets of the Salvation Army

The Most Effective Organization in the U.S.: Leadership Secrets of the Salvation Army

by Robert A. Watson

The book about not just business but the meaning of life ... a guide for being the best at what you do and doing it with a sense of purpose that connects with something larger than yourself ... For many people, The Salvation Army is most visible between Thanksgiving and Christmas. That's when its officers, soldiers and volunteers, in the ubiquitous Kettle Campaign, make music and collect money for good works. ... (more)

Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers

Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers

by Thomas H. Davenport

Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. Yet companies continue to manage this new breed of employee with techniques designed for the Industrial Age. As this critical sector of the workforce continues to increase in size and importance, that's a mistake that could cost companies their future. Thomas Davenport argues that knowledge workers... (more)

The Next EconomyPaul Hawken

The Next Economy

by Paul Hawken

Life after television (The Larger agenda series)

Life after television (The Larger agenda series)

by George Gilder

A look at television as a dying technology describes how government restrictions may hinder American companies from realizing their potential at the forefront of telecomputer development.

Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization

Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization

by Lowell L. Bryan

Based on a decade of exclusive research, Lowell Bryan and Claudia Joyce of McKinsey & Company have come up with a simple yet revolutionary conclusion: Your workforce is the key to growth in the 21st century. By tapping into their underutilized talents, knowledge, and skills you can earn tens of thousands of additional dollars per employee, and manage the interdepartmental complexities and barriers that prevent... (more)

Corporate Memory: Strategies For Knowledge Management

Corporate Memory: Strategies For Knowledge Management

by Annie Brooking

Knowledge is a corporate asset which needs to be identified, guarded and shared. Corporate Memory: Strategies for Knowledge Management shows the innovative manager how to explore its company's intangible asset, identify knowledge within his organization culture and look towards knowledge sharing. This book will help you: identify whether your company is a 'knowledge-based company'; understand the context... (more)

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Tags: knowledge economy

by Eric D. Beinhocker

by Leander Kahney

by Cali Ressler

Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

by Chris Anderson

by Tyler Cowen

by Jack Bergstrand

by George Gilder

by Charles A. O'Reilly

by John Seely Brown

by Gary Hamel

by James Lee Burke

by Edith Tilton Penrose

by Thomas O. Davenport

by Robert A. Watson

by Thomas H. Davenport

by Paul Hawken

by George Gilder

by Lowell L. Bryan

by Annie Brooking