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Despite the fact some say there is no new economy, it's hard to argue that our booming economy has charged the things we talk about and think about when it comes to work and business. Here are some good articles and magazines on the New Economy that we'll be adding to over time. For information specificaly about Learning, check out Learning in the New Economy Magazine (LiNE Zine).

Articles

What's E-Business? Buzzword du jour, or mandatory for the Millennium? e-Business Advisor By John L. Hawkins, Editorial Director E-business is as much a philosophy as a technology. Without the concept, e-business methods are little more than IT automation 1999 style. Why get so excited this time? My definition of e-business focuses on two words: openness and integration. Meaning...what? Here are some of the practices that identify an e-business. Few organizations have adopted all of these yet, while some firms have gone even farther. Details necessarily vary by industry and company, but I believe ignoring more than a couple of key e-business practices will eat away at an organization's reputation and relationships. E-business is not optional.

Bordering on Chaos: There are stranger places to see the latest in complexity theory in action, but delivering cement in Mexico is a pretty good start. Peter Katel. Wired Magazine Issue 5.07, July 1997.

Digital Civilization: Nicholas Negroponte says the digital revolution is over because the rebels won completely. Chunka Mui. Context Magazine. Summer 1998. ``[In this interview] Mr. Negroponte talked about new economic models, about how electronic commerce may vary by country and by age group, and about a potentially explosive product called electronic paper. As always, his stories were fascinating, his ideas compelling, his language powerful..."

Distruction is Cool! But decentralization is damned hard to do. Tom Peters. Forbes ASAP. 2.98 After 50 (combined) years of watching organizations thrive and shrivel, we two held to one...and only one...basic belief: To loosen the reins, to allow a thousand flowers to bloom and a hundred schools to contend, is the best way to sustain vigor in perilous, gyrating times. It's an old idea and yet it remains new, mostly because we still haven't figured out how to make it work.

Encyclopedia of the New Economy. John Browning and Spencer Reiss. Wired Magazine. Summer 1998.

Inventing the Organizations for the 21st Century. David Lampe. MIT Sloan.

Knowledge Profiteering: Think knowledge management is a fad? Savvy entrepreneurs of this century and last (Cyrus McCormick, Nathan Rothschild, George Westinghouse, Bill Gates) have proved its vaue time and again. Leonard M. Fuld. CIO Enterprise. June 15, 1998. ``Management guru Peter Drucker predicted the future importance of the knowledge worker more than 30 years ago, but the knowledge profiteer (KP) has been around for generations. Instead of just dealing with information, KPs make deals using information."

The Mismeasure of Manpower: William Dickens on our flawed understanding of productivity in the digital age. William Dickens. Feed Magazine. 7.13.98.

The New Economy: A Macro Look. Nuala Beck. Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. July 1995. ``Just at the point that we think we know all the answers we realize that we didn't even know the questions."

The New Economy: What it Really Means. Stephen B. Shepard. Business Week. November 17, 1998.

New Rules for the New Economy: Twelve dependable principles for thriving in a turbulent world. Kevin Kelly. Wired Magazine Issue 5.09, September 1998.

Old Rules for the New Economy. Brad DeLong. Rewired. December 9, 1997. One of several counterpoints to Kevin Kelly's New Economy articles.

Ten Driving Principles of the New Economy: Business 2.0 Premier Issue Summer 1998. ``The New Economy is being driven by a profound development: Individuals and companies worldwide are being electronically linked, a process as significant as an organism developing a nervous system. So it's no surprise that the rules of the game are changing. Many of these principles have been stated before. But taken together they constitute a revolution in the rules of business..."

The Web and the workplace: Bill Gates sees the Web as a frictionless middleman between suppliers and customers. Wrong picture, says Michael Dertouzos. The Web will create a whole new profession of info-workers. Joshua Levine. Forbes. June 2, 1997

What a concept! The real key to success comes from listening to the customer. Mark Tebbe's Between the Lines column in InfoWorld. Sept 21, 1998.

Magazines

Read the online edition of Fast Company or Subscribe to Fast Company at the guaranteed lowest price. While Fast Company has reached 300-pages in recent issues, it's still the only magazine many of our friends read from cover-to-cover. THat's because it's full of business news and trends, leading-edge entrepreneurs, and articles about the fastest companies in business today.

Go to the HBR website (articles are not online) or Subscribe to Harvard Business Review at the guaranteed lowest price. HBR is ``the leading journal of management thought and practice, written by authorities in business and business education. This bimonthly publication offers discussion and debate on agenda-setting issues while challenging conventional management wisdom."

Read Inc. online. Subscribe to Inc at the guaranteed lowest price from MagazineOutlet.com. This magazine's editorial focus is on the men and women who run growing companies. It offers business and technology solutions to help growing-company owners and executives run their businesses more effectively. It also features management approaches in capital finance, marketing, managing people and more. It explores the leading growing companies and the trends affecting their growth.

Go to online edition of The Industry Standard or subscribe to The Industry Standard from MagazineOutlet.com. Every week The Industry Standard it offers sophisticated coverage of the people, strategies, and business models that are central to this new economy. Each issue offers insightful news, personality profiles, original commentary, and pages devoted to industry metrics, executive recruiting, and business-model reviews.

Go to online edition of Wired or subscribe to Wired to receive 2 free issues. For a while, Wired didn't publish anything terrific but they seem to have come out of the slump and they are worth looking at again. Once again they are writing about the leading-edge, delivering stories that identify the driving forces reshaping our culture with an emphasis on technology and the information revolution.

Strategy+business is a quarterly publication with outstanding articles and interviews with though-leaders shaping business today. With an online version almost as good as the paper-version, you'll come back to this magazine often looking for new strategies and insights into the business enterprise. Subscribe to Strategy & Business.

Go to online edition of Business 2.0. Receive 2 free issues of Business 2.0 from MagazineOutlet.com. This magazine looks at all that's new and noteworthy about the networked economy. Bi-monthy issues go in-depth to investigate and question global business issues, ecommerce, Internet movers and shakers, new business models, and the people and ideas that are changing the way we work.

Read the online edition of Fortune or Subscribe to Fortune to get 2-months free. This biweekly magazine is dedicated to the business executive and those striving to become one. Fortune presents guidelines of how to improve business and personal management skills while regularly reporting on investment trends and analysis of current events in the business world.

Read the current issue of oBusinessWeek online (past issues only available to subscribers) or see it all by subscribing to BusinessWeek. Each issue features an in-depth perspective on the financial markets, industries, trends, technology and people guiding the economy through incisive analysis to help you make better decisions about your career, your business, and your personal investments.

Sloan Management Review provides senior managers with the best current management theory and practice. The peer-reviewed, quarterly journal covers a variety of management issues, with a particular emphasis on corporate strategy, organizational change, and management of technology and innovation. Subscribe to Soan Management Review.

When people get serious about business they read Forbes. This magazine offers in-depth coverage that examines the personalities and issues that shape the business world today and explores the trends of tomorrow. We're also quite fond of Forbes ASAP. See other Forbes supliments: Forbes Global, Forbes FYI, and Forbes.com Best of the Web. Subscribe to Forbes with enews.com.

Read the Red Herring issue online or subscribe to Red Herring. Red Herring is a monthly magazine covering the business of technology. It provides an insider's perspective on emerging technologies driving the new economy, from the Internet to wireless communications, from digital entertainment to networking. If you want hype, this is the magazine for you!

Upside Magazine is a business technology magazine covering the people and companies shaping the digital age. With provocative and irreverent reporting, Upside analyzes technology business developments and the strategies behind them, profiles the industry's current and future leaders, and examines how changes in technology are affecting the way we live, work, and communicate.

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