Are our institutions for global problem-solving broken? The recent failure to secure a meaningful climate change deal in Copenhagen and the global financial crisis suggest that existing global institutions require extensive rewiring. Decades of economic development, integration of product and service markets, cross-border travel and new technologies enabling virtual interaction have created a world that is much more complex and bottom-up than top-down. Yet, too many efforts to solve global issues such as climate change [...]

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I’ve been working on our follow-up to Wikinomics and came across this nice quote in the transcript from my recent interview with Larry Smarr: “Having a wiki world, and having an ability to instantaneously set up mass collaboration, you can solve problems on a time scale that’s going to matter. So if we start having a bird flu pandemic, or if global warming continues to accelerate, we may not have the luxury of what I [...]

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2007 was a great year for Wikinomics. We managed to get on a number of “best book” listings. Here’s a sample: • The Economist – Pick of the bunch: Economics and Business • Financial Times – The Best of 2007: Business • The Wall Street Journal – Holiday Books 2007 • BusinessWeek – 10 Best Books on Innovation • The Huffington Post – 2007’s Business Books • CIO Insight – Editors’ Picks – 10 Best [...]

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I recently found out that Wikinomics has been nominated as one of six finalists for the prestigious Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. This year’s competition for the Business Book of the Year Award drew more than 150 entries. The judges, which include such luminaries as Lionel Barber, editor of Financial Times; Lloyd C. Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs; Jeffrey Garten, Professor of International Trade, Finance [...]

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Wikinomics has hit a few milestones recently. First, we’ve now reached over 100,000 copies in print. Second, there are plans for an expanded edition with a new chapter and a new introduction. Portfolio (our publisher) is aiming for an early 2008 release date. Finally, foreign editions of the book are starting to appear on bookshelves around the globe. We’ve got 19 translations and counting, many of which we be released during the next 6 months. [...]

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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything is set to hit the shelves in just over a month from now. Don Tapscott and I have had a lot of good book-related news recently, including freshly-inked deals to translate Wikinomics into Japanese and Spanish. Now we’ve decided to make the introduction and chapter one available to potential readers who’d like a preview of what the book has to offer. Here’s a brief excerpt: Due to deep changes [...]

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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 [...]

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After many years of investigating the emerging world of amateur creativity, grassroots media, and technology-enabled innovation in the public and private sectors, I’m finally eating my own dog food and getting a weblog up and running. Most of my posts over the coming months will no doubt revolve around material from my new book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (co-authored with Don Tapscott), which is due to be published by Portfolio in December 2006. [...]

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