Has anyone on the list read:
The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape
Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life
(Harvard Business School Press, 2004)
Robert Malone (Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of
Management and is director of the MIT Center for
Collective Intelligence)
A superficial scrut on the web suggests to me that the match between
his title and the name of our list here is a poor one. That's because
he, his former work and the Sloan School in general appear to be
concerned (AFAICT) with the management of institutional entities.
Now I may be wrong, given my abysmal ignorance of the subject, but
management of institutional entities -- for-profit corporations,
government agencies, universities, major NPOs/NGOs, financial
partnerships etc. -- in today's environment is all about the
institution itself, its efficiency, its budget or revenue, its power
status within an industry or government and similar. It's not about
the lives of workers (whether particle physicists or pipe fitters) or
about the public good.
So if anyone has read this and has interesting observations to pass
on, do pass them on here.
- Mike
PS: A couple of URLs to introduce the author if you haven't heard of
him:
http://spectrum.mit.edu/articles/normal/collective-brainpower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Malone
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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