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Klout, Influence, and the Future of Business
Klout helps companies better understand the influence of employees and customers, and this opens the firm more fully to the outside world. Despite its many problems, Klout not only symbolizes the growing importance of influence in marketing, but the increasingly permeable nature of the firm.
My TEDxRainier Talk on The Soulful Company
Watch the TEDxRainier talk on “The Soulful Company” — a new generation of firms that won’t just tap the soul, but feed it too.
Software Will Replace You
Software-based businesses like Amazon and Netflix are rapidly displacing traditional businesses, but it goes much deeper than that. Software will soon replace much of what you do at work – and at lower cost and with better service. The question is – how far will we take this? Will software someday run our companies?
The Biology of Great Organizations
The boundary between what’s inside and what’s outside the firm is the future of organizational strategy.
The Divine Right of Capital – A Summary
To fix capitalism, it helps to first have a good diagnosis of the problems. Start here.



