There are two great things about reading blogs.  First of all, you usually get a real point of view.  There's not even any pretend objectivity.  Second, when comments are posted you can see how others react to that point of view and maybe even put your own two cents in.

Here are some blog posts that caught my attention at mid-week. I'm pointing you to the Carnival of the Capitalists and posts on wikis and other technology tools in the workplace, the new Harvard Business Online site, complete with bloggers, practical reading suggestions, making committees work better and multitasking.

Start with the most recent Carnival of the Capitalists. You'll find pointers to lots of quality posts.

From Business Week: The Wiki Workplace
"Thanks in part to younger workers, more companies are using social computing tools to aid collaboration and to foster innovation and growth"

Harvard Business Online
Harvard Business Online has a new and much nicer face.  I'm pointing you to their page that describes everything on the site.

One of the things that's new and relevant to this post on blogs is that Harvard has recruited what they call discussion leaders.  You'll probably think of them as bloggers, but they make up a distinguished bunch. Here's the list: Tom Davenport, Tammy Erickson, Eric McNulty, Larry Prusak, Michael Watkins, Bob Sutton and Gillian Corkindale. Each will post to the site and invite comment.  Check out the site and check out the sections for each "discussion leader."

From David Maister: Required Reading
"If you do a business degree, they will often assign you books on marketing, managing, organizational behavior and strategy. But many “classics” never get assigned because the topics they cover are seen as too "basic." For example, there are lots of people (like me) who took many courses on “Management” but never really had to think about supervising another human being."

From Brain-Based Business: 5 Tips to Reboot Brain Dead Committees
Gosh we hate committees, but that's because so many of them are so stultifying.  Dr. Weber to the rescue, though, with this helpful post.

From Slow Leadership: Accept it: you can’t concentrate on two things at once
A good review of some recent research.

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