Topic: James Surowiecki

What Emergency?

This week's New Yorker Financial Page, the weekly column by The Wisdom of Crowds author James Surowiecki, certainly caught my attention. Since reporting and writing this story several months ago about what we can learn from ...READ»

Mano a Mano

Now, this is a conversation worth eavesdropping on. James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, and Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink, are holding forth in Slate this week. So far, their exchange has touched on the difference ...READ»

American Idol Comes to Internet Ad Campaigns

Check out this site from Eurostar, the Channel Tunnel train. Now that consumers are collectively choosing the next pop star and the kind of wedding dress a bride should wear in her wedding (the Today Show's wedding stunts), why ...READ»

Pro-Am World

In October, as Heath mentioned earlier this week, Charles Leadbetter kicked off the magazine with an opening essay on the Amateur Revolution. "The 20th century was marked by the rise of professionals," he said. "Now that historic ...READ»

FC's Best Business Books of 2004

This week has seen a number of publications put out their lists of best business books. Heck, even Forbes put out a list (Trump's How to Get Rich at #5? Please. Now we know what happens to your brain when you watch too much reality ...READ»

Who Owns Strategy?

In this age of ubiquitious information, is our ever-flattening world making top leadership obsolete?READ»

Fast Forward 2005: <span>63-66</span>

The future is something to get excited about again. Here's our look at the surprising people, ideas, and trends that will change how we work and live in 2005.READ»

Summer Reading With a Twist

A second look at some smart books that coulda--and shoulda--been best-sellers.READ»

The Wisdom of Gamers

How many players does it take to balance the budget?READ»

People of Plenty

The American dream says that anyone can be rich. But the real question is, Are you keeping up with the Joneses?READ»

Kindle DX: Why Size Matters

People have a lot of expectations for the new, larger-sized Kindle DX. Interesting how a shift in size / form factor can hold the fate of an entire industry (newspapers in this case) in its hand. Wow, the power of industrial design! I ...READ»

• Re-Kindling Your Brand

The Wisdom of Crowds (Beta Version)

Open-source idea generation. Transparency. Democracy. Sounds great--but can it work in a business?READ»

Too Much Information

Call it the "echo-chamber effect": the chatter of business-related information (and pseudo-information) that produces brain-dead behavior.READ»