Tom Leighton

Akamai co-founder & Chief Scientist, and MIT math professor

Want to Avoid a Firestone-like Fiasco? Try the M3 Concept

What do the Firestone Tire crisis, the Watergate scandal, Three-Mile Island, and most airline crashes have in common? Quite simply, it would have been almost impossible for each of these disasters to have occurred without a serious chain of unchecked errors leading up to the catastrophe. Whether it is a physical disaster, a political blunder or a serious corporate misstep, the ensuing investigation inevitably reveals … [ Read more ]

Knowledge Management News

Knowledge Management News™ is a free monthly eZine focused on Knowledge Management, Creativity and Innovation. Other than their useful newsletter, the site contains recommended readings, related jobs, conferences, links, products & tools, and editorials.

Knowledge Management: A Bibliographic Resource

Co-edited by John Hokkanen, a business and technology strategist, and Tricia Bond, a research librarian, Knowledge Management: A Bibliographic Resource is a straight-forward annotated bibliography of online articles relating to knowledge management (KM). The articles are organized by topic, including What is KM?, Why are Successful KM Projects Rare?, and Knowledge Management Technologies. Along with the links, the date and source of each article, as … [ Read more ]

1001 Ways to Reward Employees

This booklet should be required reading for managers. The author presents a compelling case for recognition and positive reinforcement in management practice. And for some old-time micro-managers, he shows that employee coercion is no longer an option. This book examines ways, means and methods used by corporations to recognize employees. It also discusses a common failing; “…it is a rare manager who systematically makes the … [ Read more ]

How to Keep Others From Ripping Off Your Ideas

As many companies and individuals have learned the hard way, coming up with a new technology doesn’t necessarily mean you will reap the gains from it. What steps can you take to protect your innovation – there are four of them – and how do these strategies work in the brave new world of emerging technologies? Management professor Sidney G. Winter, one of the authors … [ Read more ]

Sky Dayton

founder of Earthlink and eCompanies

Bill Nguyen

serial entrepreneur and founder of Onebox.com

Henry Blodget

Merrill Lynch first vice president and one of the most quoted and (until recently, anyway) bullish Internet analysts on Wall Street.

Icq Founders

The ICQ program is the brainchild of four 20-something Israelis — Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir — who first met as teenagers in Israel’s tight-knit programming community; they later crossed paths again, after they’d each served their mandatory three years in the Israeli army and were wondering what to do next.

Lise Buyer

The woman who helped make sense of Internet valuations talks about picking winners, spotting losers and steering clear of negative gross margins.

Marc Andreessen

inventor of the browser and co-founder of Netscape

Editor’s Note: this is an archived copy b/c the original tnbt.com site is dead – so some links work and some don’t…

Donna Dubinsky

Co-founder and former CEO of Palm Computing, now co-founder of Handspring

William Kennard

Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)