This paper from Patrick Lambe on "Mapping the Culture of an Online Community" is a great overview of the sort of characters that inhabit almost any online community (and many offline communities). When reading it, I suggest ask yourself: which character are you, and which character do you aspire [...continue reading]

I really enjoyed reading this article on how to run fun, effective meetings. [...continue reading]

Following are my notes from this morning's "59 Minutes" Panel: MEET THE PRESS 2005: Discussion with Leading Private Equity JournalistsSponsored by Broadgate Consultants, LLCModerated by Franci J. Blassberg, Co-Head of Debevoise & Plimpton's Global Private Equity Team, Editor & Chief of the Debevoise [...continue reading]

The CEO's Path to the Top: How Times Have Changed In a new study that compares Fortune 100 executives in 1980 with their counterparts in 2001, Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, and colleague Monika Hamori document what many CEOs and other senior managers have no doubt [...continue reading]

I had a busy week in Israel, but just arrived back in New York. You can download here my presentation to the MIT Enterprise Forum on Current and Future Leaders in Social Software. The Powerpoint includes a taxonomy of social software companies, lists of the major players in each sector of the [...continue reading]