A colleague recently sent me a link to an outstanding article by McKinsey on the importance of employee networks: "Harnessing the power of informal employee networks."  Some of it's key findings are very similar to the findings in Six-Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age which I also think is worth a read.  The authors in the McKinsey piece note that most the real information in large organizations does not flow through traditional employee hierarchical ...     Read entire post

One of the basic tenets of the “Social Networking – Web 2.0 – Community” movement is that crowds are smarter than individuals. While there is ample evidence to support this:  60% increase in productivity at Proctor and Gamble from crowdsourcing 91% success rate of the audience in Who Wants to be a Millionaire The success of stock market indexes versus individual portfolio managers etc… etc… etc… ...     Read entire post