Todd is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, author and accomplished technologist based in New York City. He has worked with and for companies big and small for twenty years, and has seen the best and the worst of contemporary organizational practice. Todd is coauthor of I'm Outta Here! How coworking is making the office obsolete.
I've been following Saul Kaplan on Twitter for a while. He recently published a post titled "Wanted: Market Makers" that I think captures the spirit of the times, illustrated by companies like Zappos and Apple.
I recently had a great discussion with Greg La Vardera at Workalicious. Greg was correct. The conversation went broad on the subject of coworking.
Bruce Nussbaum wrapped up 2008 with a post on his BusinessWeek blog titled "'Innovation' is Dead". Most of the follow-up commentary revolved around whether "Transformation" was better/worse than "Innovation" as a focal point for 2009, given the apparent overuse of the word "innovation" throughout 2007/2008.
I recently submitted a conference proposal on the subject of coworking. The challenge is/was to explain coworking to an audience of corporate real estate, human resources, finance, and information technology professionals. What follows is an early draft of the of the first part of the proposal.