“The problem isn’t that loyalty is dead or that careers are history. The real problem, argues Stanford’s Jeffrey Pfeffer, is that so many companies are toxic ó and that they get exactly what they deserve.”

“…The fact that my actual job description changes dramatically from month to month, and sometimes from week to week, has left me feeling somewhat demoralized, however. It does not change because I fail at my job, but eventually, as time passes and you are never quite able to depend on the idea that you can predict your next week, you feel as though you have failed. You set out to do one thing, and consistently, endlessly, perpetually, despite your best efforts, never get to do it…”

“If someone asked you who the greatest living management thinker is, you’d probably respond: Peter Drucker. And, according to ‘Thinkers 50, the Original Global Ranking of Business Thinkers,’ you would be right. But would you be able to come up with the next 49? And, what criteria would you use to judge them?”

“Scenarios are carefully crafted stories about the future embodying a wide variety of ideas and integrating them in a way that is communicable and useful. Scenarios help us link the uncertainties we hold about the future to the decisions we must make today.”

“This weekend I am in Westchester County, New York, for WTF 2004, a grassroots gathering of telecom practitioners and thinkers. The conference has been called a ‘TED for the Bell Labs set,’ and the agenda reflects a wide-ranging look at the cultural, economic, political, and technological potential offered by improved, open networks. Over the course of the weekend, I’ll be posting periodic reports from the discussions on site.”