Archives for the 'Trends in Management' Category
Inteview with Don Tapscott
A very interesting conversation with Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics.
Some of the topics covered:
The relationship between technology and business.
“The Perfect Storm”: The changes in technology (Internet), demographics, society, and economics.
The paradigm shifts.
Music should be a service, not a good.
The power of mass collaboration.
Opening the boundaries of the companies.
Google is a digital conglomerate with software, advertising, […]
Compensate Inefficacy With Inmorality
This seems to be the piece of advice given by an article published in the last North American edition of The Economist. It is surprising, coming from such a prestigious magazine.
Must we, then, also follow the recommendations of the book “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli, which states that “the end justifies the means”?
Do we live […]
Sergey Brin and Larry Page talk about Google
Sergey Brin and Larry Page talk about Google, their culture, innovation, Adsense, the future, and so on. A look at one of the most interesting companies in the world today.
Excellent Interview With Steve Jobs And Bill Gates
In this joint interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs talk about trends in technology and business: the past, the present, the future, mobile devices, Apple and Microsoft, entertainment, advertising, internet, and so on.
Here we include a video with the highlights of the interview, but in total it is about […]
The Power of Corporate Kinetics
In 1998, Michael Fradette and Steve Michaud wrote the book “The Power of Corporate Kinetics”.
In that book, 9 years ago, the authors already talked about the death of predictability, originated in the continuous changes of the environment. They stated that companies must be prepared to react instantaneously to market dynamics, and they gave recommendations to […]
Unlocking Cool
An interesting presentation about innovation and creativity. It includes many examples.
Karaoke Capitalism
Some years after writing Funky Business, Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom wrote Karaoke Capitalism. The book repeats many of the concepts of its predecessor (it talks again about technologies, institutions, and values, for example) but it provides some new thoughts about them. It also refers to topics that were not so deeply treated in Funky […]
Management in the Next Society, by Peter Drucker
This book is a compilation of several articles written by Drucker between the late 90’s and the beginning of the present century. The book is highly recommended for those interested in the analysis of trends in society and management.
Drucker refers to topics such as the decrease in the birth rate; the declination of the industry […]
