Yes. Prof. Malone interviewed me for the book and was kind enough to send me an autographed copy when it came out.

We're also discussed in Dan Gillmor's new book.

Mathias Schindler wrote:

How to gain power at work in the future: Give it away

By HARVEY SCHACHTER Wednesday, August 4, 2004 - Page C3

The Future of Work

By Thomas Malone,

Harvard Business School Press,

225 pages, $44.95

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040804/CABO...

"Prof. Malone suggests three patterns will occur in the future:

Loosening the hierarchy: When Google Inc. starts a major project, it doesn't create a huge new organization with lots of management layers, it sets up a few autonomous engineering teams and sets them loose. The Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia allows anybody to contribute to it, with no centralized quality control. "Its success so far shows that amazingly loose hierarchies can create impressively large and complex results," Prof. Malone says."

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