his bday and he's giving us a gift.
one of fav's:
Alan Webber and Bill TaylorRight when the Internet was on the cusp and Wired magazine was getting started in chronicling
technology, Alan and Bill left the Harvard Business Review with some very big ideas about how
business might evolve.
“Something is happening and it affects us all. A global revolution is changing business, and
business is changing the world.”
They wrote that in November 1995, fifteen years ago. The amazing thing is that they were right.
They were chronicling and in fact, creating a movement. The magazine they built didn’t react, it
instigated. Instead of starting out with an expensive junket called a retreat, they ran a cheap one
and called it an advance.
Here’s what they wrote on the cover of the first issue. Let me know if it sounds like the work of
two crazy guys who can see the future:
“Work is personal,
Computing is social,
Knowledge is power,
Break the rules.”
This ebook is a personal addendum to his book Linchpin.
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