Uzzi and Spiro 2005 - AJS - Collaboration and Creativity - The Small World Problem
success of new musical productions in the twentieth century relies upon two key parameters: the ratio of new blood versus industry veterans, and the…
The secret ingredient that makes some teams better than others
Culture defines any business, but it’s one of the hardest things to manage. In this extract from her new TED Book, Margaret Heffernan lays out the…
Decentralization: Why Dumb Networks Are Better The smart choice is innovation at the edge
“Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power.” — Eric Hoffer
Most HR Data Is Bad Data
How good a rater do you think you are? If you were my manager and you watched my performance for an entire year, how accurate do you think your…
Inducing Peer Pressure to Promote Cooperation
Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual's action is…
Improving marketing success: The role of tacit knowledge exchange between sales and marketing
Successful organizations adapt their marketing strategies to marketplace changes. Boundary spanners, such as salespeople, because they are able to…
▶ How Cities are Engineering Serendipity: Greg Lindsay at TEDxDumbo - YouTube
Proximity has the most to do with engineering serendipity. We do a terrible job organizing companies to meet people. "Journalist Greg Lindsay…