Recommended Reading
Some good stuff today with a heavy techno- futurist and economic bent:
Top Billing! Art Hutchinson, one of my favorite bloggers for analytical methodology has had several good posts up recently – The Future Will Be… Different From What We Expect and Scenarios as Vehicles for Fear-Mongering.
Eide Neurolearning Blog –Vivid Memory of the Past Linked to Imagination of the Future.
Dr. Richard Florida (the creativity demographer who keeps morphing the name of his blog) Place Matters and Declining ROI of the Professions.
John Hagel – Fractal Spikes and Global Competition.
Hagel, like Hutchinson, is an infrequent poster, but he is always worth reading for his insights and rich array of supporting links. Here is an example:
“The best way to refresh and augment talent is not to attend some training course. In this fast-moving world, by the time knowledge has been expressed and packaged in a form that can be used in a training course, it is probably out of date. We all need to find ways to connect with people who are at the leading edge of relevant talent pools.
The most valuable knowledge these people have is tacit knowledge – especially the knowledge that is so new that they have difficulty in articulating it, much less abstracting and codifying it. This is a key point for business strategy – when the pace of change accelerates, the balance of value between explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge shifts profoundly. Strategies focused on developing and protecting explicit knowledge fall when confronted with effective strategies to tap into and leverage tacit knowledge.”
Chris Anderson – Why give away your book?.
Steve DeAngelis –Invention through Evolution.
Umair Haque – The Strategic Bankruptcy of the Boardroom, Writers’ Strike Edition .
House of War –The Political Economy of Democracy.
Fabius Maximus – War games, the antidote to “Victory disease.
Smartmobs– Howard Rheingold in Second Life on Coevolution of Media and Collective Action
Ross Mayfield – No Free Links and Why nofollow Doesn’t Work for Wikis.
That’s it!.
January 21st, 2008 at 3:17 am
Really fine collection of things to read! Thanks for collecting and posting this.
January 21st, 2008 at 4:25 am
Thanks for your Reading List this week. The two Art Hutchinson pieces are very helpful, as is the Ed Regis piece that one of them linked to — and I posted a response on Fabius Max to the "2002 Millennium Challenge war games" post.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Cheers for the link, Mark!
January 21st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Thanks, gents !
I’ve found Art’s posts quite helpful too, over the years.