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What Tom's Reading
First a book that I've re-visited: The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen.
Interview on BusinessWeek.com/eBiz
For more on innovation, read Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation, by James Utterback, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. (He uses the Christensen book in his classes.)
More innovation, via the Internet! I love David Stauffer's new book, D2D: Dynosaur to Dynamo. The cover blurb/sub-sub-title says it all: "How 20 old economy companies are winning the new economy."
You've been asking about this book, which I've been quoting for a while. It was just published in May. Free Agent Nation: How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live, Daniel Pink.
Go to danpink.com
This one's not to be published until September '01, but I previewed it. I call it "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." It's Jump Start Your Business Brain, by "the man," Doug Hall, master of Eureka Ranch in greater Cincinnati.
Visit the Eureka Ranch website
Education. I was onto this subject, but I became PASSIONATE when I read this book: A Different Kind of Teacher: Reflections on the Bitter Lessons of American Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto.
More from Harvard prof Howard Gardner, he who gave us M.I.: the seven "Multiple Intelligences." The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think & How Schools Should Teach.
Profile of Gardner
Frank Smith was onto the subject of education ten years ago! He wrote