Book blog. Nice post and abstract from “The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-first Century Organization” by Thomas A Stewart. An extract from the post (a meta-extract if you will):
“…All the major structures of companies – their legal underpinnings, their systems of governance, their management disciplines, their accounting – are based on a model of the corporation that has become irrelevant. There are no rules of thumb, no advice, no tried-and-true consulting methods, no academic work on how to make the oil-rig worker more productive during the five-sixths of his time he is not holder a wrench. Knowledge workers are on their own—getting a word of advice here and there from a colleague or a boss, or from self-help books about how to be better organized…”
The permalink on Jay Cross’s blog is bust, so if you’re reading this and it’s months into the future, look for the Wednesday, July 10, 2002 post.