My “Launching a Better Brain” in HBR

A rocket-infused business version of my blog post “Celebrate the Child-Like Mind” just came out in the Feb ’09 issue of Harvard Business Review. It is part of their “HBR List of breakthrough ideas”. (legible size)

By coincidence, Gary Hamel’s Moon Shot for Management article came out in the same issue, where I was one of his “renegade brigade” contributors, based on the brainstorming sessions we did at MLab.

Moon Shot opens with the provocative:
“Management is undoubtedly one of humankind’s most important inventions. [but] Management, like the combustion engine, is a mature technology that must now be reinvented for a new age.”

(You can vote on the 25 Management 2.0 challenges, and thereby see the survey results.)

There’s a strange connection between these articles, beyond taking a rocket to the moon. At Gary’s request, I did a rocket stunt for MLab, by putting a “Bad Management” payload — Fredrick Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management and Dilbert’s Pointy-Haired Boss — into a fiberglass rocket and blew them up…. (photos and video)