What happened to the VC blogosphere? Seems to have kinda dissolved into the clubhouse conversations, podcasts, and aphorisms?
At one point I thought it would replace HBR as source of record on latest management/leadership thinking but it sort of derailed a bit.
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Seems to have been replaced by what I call “managerial explainerism.” An explainer-journalism style coverage of the corporate world in newsletters, roughly from the perspective of financial markets incentives and balance sheet analysis. Makes sense given financialization.
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Michael Porter 2.0 is some sort of linear combination of and
It’s not so much latest management thinking from the inside as seen by managers/leaders and academics who study it, but a kind of critical reviewing genre from the outside 🤔
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That’s now acquired a sort of second generation. I like and among newer additions to the newsletter-industrial complex. It’s certainly an improvement over both VC-blogosphere and HBR-verse. Plus a bunch of China watchers and sectoral types.
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The practice of management though, seems to have fallen into neglect. It’s a) a bunch of stale ideas being still recycled at HBR, b) solid but hard to acquire grapevine wisdom on practices at a few leading (from management practices POV) companies, c) consultant content marketing
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The Dan Pink autonomy/mastery/purpose and what you call 4th gen management ran out of weak correlation ideas to plinking in HBR. Hard to find much interesting outside of tech strategy
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I was pretty deep into researching the “latest” thinking out of academia and business while in consulting but came away shocked at how little there is beyond small scale individual based behavioral stuff.
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As you’ve pointed out, we’re entering a new work paradigm of fluid professional clusters & management by AI. Who knows how to be a leader these days? One of my inspirations is Dee Hock’s (founder of Visa) “Birth of the Chaordic Age.” New mediums haven’t found their message yet.
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