Having just recently finalized the Wikinomics manuscript, we’ve been able to ship the final draft around to an impressive list of potential endorsers, including a number of CEOs and some prominents academics. It’s a bit nerve racking having your precious text reviewed for the first time by people outside of our immediate circle. I’m happy to report, however, that the first reviews to come in are overwhelmingly positive (whew!).
Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum calls Wikinomics a “deeply profound and hopeful book” while Google CEO Eric Schmidt says, “Wikinomics heralds the biggest change in collaboration to date.”
Tony Scott, CIO of Walt Disney, made me smile when he called Wikinomics “A MapQuest-like guide to the future of the business.” But, in what I consider to be one of the most important endorsements to date, founder and CEO of Socialtext, Ross Mayfield, says:
“I love this book. How counter-intuitive that openness, peering, sharing, and acting globally would become key to corporate competitiveness, growth and profit? Mass collaboration is the most disruptive development in business in a long time. Consider Wikinomics your survival kit.”
Ross lives and breathes the world of wikinomics that we wrote about so his comments are immensely meaningful to me. I’ve posted the full list of Wikinomics endorsements to date here.
