If you came to this page responding to our email, you know that the Harvard Business Review has made available to us a FREE download of their NEW list of Breakthrough Ideas for 2007 FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY--until February 26th. Click the link to receive or purchase a copy.

If you came independently, please help yourself regardless.  And if it's after the 26th, the link will still be live, but it won't be free.

I was delighted of course to have the idea of WorkNets, central to our thinking at Monitor Networks, included on the list. Equally, though, given this blog's mission of showcasing the people in our Talent Network, it's nice to see the work of Clay Shirky represented, as well as our friends Duncan Watts and Eric Von Hippel.

And one amusing note.  On the cover of this issue, you'll see an article on Understanding Customer Experience, by Christopher Meyer. That's not me.  Chris Meyer "West," as he's known around here, has been writing and consulting around innovation issues for 30 years or so, and wrote a book called Fast Cycle Time. When I came out with BLUR,  I'd already been introduced to Chris by my co-author, Stan Davis.  I called Chris to discuss how to differentiate ourselves--should I use my middle initial, or by "Chris" instead of "Christopher," etc.  We concluded that we were so well aligned in our views that neither of us would mind having the other's thinking attributed to us, and that if we both used the same name on our publications each of us would be likely to get credit for the output of both of us, so that's how we left it.  It's worked pretty well, even to the point that one has been invited to speak and the other has ended up doing the speaking (not without the client's knowledge, of course.) Now HBR has blown our cover but putting us both between theirs.