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Article of Interest: Leading Clever People

To make sure clever people do their best work at your company, you must harness their talents.

Who most determines your company’s success? Clever people—employees whose knowledge and skills enable them to produce disproportionate value for your firm. Think the pharmaceutical researcher who formulates a new drug, or the programmer who creates a new piece of code. Their single innovation may bankroll their entire organization for a decade.

To make sure clever people do their best work at your company, you must harness their talents. But that isn’t easy: Clever people don’t want to be led. They don’t care about titles or promotions. And they’re easily bored.

What to do? Find out more here.

Sound Advice: What Is a Wiki?

Cross-referencing to our headquarter blog. Interesting post. We have also created a private wiki (wetpaint) for WPO Chicago members and use it to communicate important events and share knowledge.

Are you using a wiki? If so, how?

Sound Advice: Books To Read in 2008

Strategy & Business published its seventh annual survey of the year’s Best Business Books in 2007, where noted business practitioners, scholars, and journalists select and judge the most significant and useful books in their areas of expertise. This is one of my favorite things to track.

See what you missed and get busy reading in 2008! Go here for list (may require quick registration).