• Chaordic Alliance

• Cluetrain Manifesto

• Fast Company

• Free Agent Nation

• Long Boom

• Open Source

• Simplicity

• Work Matters!

"The Chaordic Alliance works to develop, disseminate and implement new concepts of organization which more equitably distribute power and wealth, release human ingenuity, and are more compatible with the biosphere."

"If you only have time for one clue this year, this is the one to get... we are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers. We are human beings - and our reach exceeds your grasp. Deal with it."

"Networked markets are beginning to self-organize faster than the companies that have traditionally served them. Thanks to the web, markets are becoming better informed, smarter, and more demanding of qualities missing from most business organizations."

"Fast Company Magazine was founded on a single premise: a global revolution was changing business, and business was changing the world. Discarding the old rules of business, Fast Company set to chronicle how changing companies create and compete, to highlight new business practices, and to showcase the teams and individuals who are inventing the future and reinventing business."

"When in the course of economic events, it becomes manifest that traditional work arrangements stifle innovation, reward timidity, devolve into nothingness, and offer at best a perilous prosperity, it becomes necessary for citizens of conscience and talent to declare their independence."

There's a new movement in the land. From coast to coast, in communities large and small, citizens are declaring their independence and drafting a new bill of rights. Meet some of the 25 million residents of Free Agent, USA.

"The Long Boom is a positive meme about a better future. It's a contagious idea about the immense opportunity of our historical era, the 40 years from 1980 to 2020. It's a bold vision of how to harness the vast potential of our new technologies and new economy and make a better world."

"Open-source software is an idea whose time has finally come. For twenty years it has been building momentum in the technical cultures that built the Internet and the World Wide Web. Now it's breaking out into the commercial world, and that's changing all the rules. Are you ready?"

The following simple quotes were pulled from Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More,Better, Faster by Bill Jensen.

• The hardest work is figuring out what to do in a world of infinite choices.
• Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.
• Corporate America is investing heavily in integrated planning and coordination. But it's chintzy when it comes to investing in human nature.
• Every 1100 days your ability to transform information into work becomes twice as important.

"Start a movement?

Yes, we plan to do just that. We are sick and tired of whining about lousy bosses. (Or companies.) It is, as we see it, our life. To live or lose. To form or allow to be formed. The message in a nutshell:

• 1) You, me, all of us, must turn ourselves into distinctive one-person Brands;
• 2) the professional service firm—with its obsession on clients and projects—must be the new organizational model;
• 3) tasks must be turned into WOW! Projects."