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Nytimes: In a Wall St. Hierarchy, Short Shrift to Little Guy
In a newly disclosed tactic, Morgan Stanley and four other brokerage firms paid rivals that agreed to publish positive reports on companies whose shares Morgan and others issued to the public. This practice made it appear that a throng of believers were recommending these companies’ shares.
From 1999 through 2001, for example, Morgan Stanley paid about $2.7 million to approximately 25 other investment banks for these so-called research guarantees, regulators said.

Business vs. Creation?
Benjamin responds to my obnoxius comments. Multi-disciplinary skills is what’s all about - and both business and design definately needs to get a greater understanding of each other. I guess my point was that the responsibility should be on both sides.
And honestly - what characterizes real business people imho - is their creative skills to imagine, to see the possibilities, to create the disruptive products, to attract the right specialized talent, to understand a variety of different skill areas and the leadership skills to make it all happen.

Billetnet solgt til USA [danish]
TicketMaster buys the largest danish ticketing network - not really sure it’s a good thing in terms of americanization, etc. But let’s hope they can do some technology transfer making it easier to buy tickets online!

Gary Hamel: Innovation Now!
Conventional wisdom says to get back to basics.
Conventional wisdom says to cut costs.
Conventional wisdom is doomed.
The winners are the innovators who are making bold thinking an everyday part of doing business. Even in tough times!

Thomas A. Stewart, Business2.0; How to Think With Your Gut. Good fact-based article on decision making in the future - or as one might declare it - the reintegration of decision making processes to humanity/mankind. A part of getting away from valueing rationality and logic - the machine thinking - higher than intuition, passion and sincerity - the human thinking.

Metropolis Magazine: Reimagining Work. Six experts - spanning seven decades - offer up their perspectives on the future of the office.

ECIFFO - a Japan-based international research/information journal dedicated to explore the possibility of office designs from diverse points of view. The definite ressource with loads of good case stories and articles like Workplaces as media, “The City is the Office”, “The City as the Workplace” (featuring the now defunct Unitedspaces Copenhagen) and “Club Office”.

Fraunhofer Office Innovation Center OIC
“At the Fraunhofer Office Innovation Center (OIC) the future of work is being researched, lived and demonstrated. Experts from five Fraunhofer institutes work out prototypical solutions for the office world of tomorrow. The federal government, the govern-ment of Baden-Württemberg and numerous enterprises support this project, which is unique in Germany.”

Greenspan’s newest meme: Infectious greed [NyTimes, requires registration]

InfoMine - great zine covering personal development and productivity.