Business Articles
Is “The World’s Most Secretive Company” Opening Up?
Apple has been called “the world’s most secretive company.” But when you look closely at Apple, . . .
(Almost) Everything We Think About Managing Talent is Wrong. Here’s Why.
Today’s workplace should look more like a jazz band (yes, that’s a pic of me) rather than a Dilbert-style bureaucracy that looks more like a dysfunctional marching band. As Dilbert pointed out (in the best selling management book of all time) our approach to talent management is deeply flawed.
Businesses Should Move on From Cold Hard Cash
According to a new study by the Global Solution Networks program at The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, companies that base their transactions and business on money made of atoms, not digital bits, suffer big time. Is cash bad for business?
Taking Care of Business
Don Tapscott is well known to many Canadians for his insights on business and technology, and as the author of 15 books. But he’s also a passionate musician who cobbled together a band 15 years ago made up of himself and six executives from the finance and investment world: Gerry Throop, Jim Hardy, Stewart Borden, Vince Mazza, Trish Fonberg and Duke McKenzie.
Financial Times: End of the Imperial Corporate Leader
Not much unites Franz-Joseph I of Austria-Hungary and a flock of starlings. But when Don Tapscott, the business thinker, used film of murmurations of flocking starlings to conclude a presentation about managing complexity in Vienna last week, the mesmerising images unfolded alongside the forbidding presence of the old emperor, staring down from a gilt-framed portrait….
Don Tapscott Ranked Top 5 of the World’s Leading Business Thinkers
We are excited to share that at a black tie ceremony in London last night Thinkers50 listed Don Tapscott as the #4 most important business thinker in the world.
SAP Business Innovation’s Future of Business Series
I participated in SAP Business Innovation’s twelve part series on the Future of Business.
Paradigm Shift 20 Year Anniversary
It’s been 20 years since I published Paradigm Shift. In 1991 we were barely at the cusp of the technology revolution.
Transparency: Burden or Competitive Advantage?
Transparency. Nonprofit, for-profit, nongovernmental, and government organizations of all sizes are encountering this term in everything they own and touch. Regulators, activists (such as Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks colleagues), and consumers are all fueling the...