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February 2010

We're reinventing ourselves once again. As we've hinted at previously, we have redesigned this newsletter once again. We're cutting back on in-depth articles to allow us to devote more time to the members of our Private Client Network (a new offering we described in detail back in the December 2009 newsletter).

Thus this newsletter will be devoted almost entirely to short notes (with lots of links to source materials) about ideas and issues we think you should be paying attention to. We tell our private clients that they need "peripheral vision" to stay alert to the trends and discontinuities in their world that may not affect them today or even in the near future, but that could eventually disrupt their business models altogether.

And that's what we intend to do, in smaller measure, for you. Thus, you'll see below a series of comments and pointers on our four favorite topics (and the core of our business): The Future of Technology, The Future of Place and Space, The Future of People and Organizations, and The Future of Work Design. And for good measure every month or two we'll provide you with a mini book review or two—the stuff we're reading that we think you should too.

That said, we do have one piece of unfinished business that we've also included here: the last of our six-part series of feature articles on designing and managing Business Community Centers^sm. The first five articles are all available in the newsletter archives at this link.

Enjoy.

Charlie and Jim

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1. Feature Article: There's More To Count Than Beans

This is the last in a series of articles on Business Community Centerssm (BCC's): the why, the how, and the wherefores. We conclude this month with an explanation of how to make money with a BCC. This article is also the first in our new, condensed format. We end with a note about how to get more information on this topic as well as others in this issue.

2. The Future of Technology

3. The Future of Place and Space

4. The Future of People and Organizations

5. The Future of Work Design

6. The Bookshelf: Stuff We're Reading (and You Should Too)

This new section contains mini-reviews of things we're reading (or trying to). We'll include links to more information online, typically at Amazon.com, though we have no stakes in whether you buy the books and articles, or not.

7. What's Happened/Happening?

Brief announcements and notes about where Jim and Charlie have been, are, and will be, holding forth in public conversations and other activities.

As usual, your comments and reactions to any of these articles are more than welcome. Please send your thoughts to us at any time.

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