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Announcing The Vital Edge!

Welcome to my new website, and the “disruptively good business” of The Vital Edge.

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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.

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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.

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Google+ Hints at a Social Media Marketing Revolution

Google+ pushes better engagement with “permission marketing” principles.

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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?

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Cooperation is Never Perfect

Just as I suspected: cooperation isn’t all fluffy white bunnies.

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The Biology of Organizational Intelligence – It’s People

People are what connects an organization to the world around it.

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The Biology of Great Organizations

The boundary between what’s inside and what’s outside the firm is the future of organizational strategy.

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Trust and Networks

Trust makes networks work.

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The Divine Right of Capital – A Summary

To fix capitalism, it helps to first have a good diagnosis of the problems. Start here.

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