{"id":538,"date":"2005-12-08T01:37:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T06:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/?p=538"},"modified":"2005-12-08T03:43:30","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T08:43:30","slug":"open-space-is-competitive-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/08\/open-space-is-competitive-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Space IS Competitive Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searching, searching, searching&#8230; everybody&#8217;s searching for competitive advantage.  And now Google&#8217;s found it.  Of course.  And the top-ranked factor?  Well, it sure sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/ost\">Open Space<\/a> to me!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of &#8216;knowledge workers.&#8217; After all, Drucker invented the term in 1959. He says knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5, and that smart businesses will &#8220;strip away everything that gets in their knowledge workers&#8217; way.&#8221; Those that succeed will attract the best performers, securing &#8220;the single biggest factor for competitive advantage in the next 25 years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10296177\/site\/newsweek\/\">MSNBC<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/theobvious.typepad.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/googles_rules_f.html\">Euan Semple<\/a>, recognized recently as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infotodayblog.com\/archives\/2005_11_27_archive.shtml#113344605245464123\">info professional of the year<\/a>&#8221; for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infotodayblog.com\/archives\/2005_11_27_archive.shtml#113344605245464123\">the cool stuff he&#8217;s doing at the BBC<\/a>.  Props and thanks, Euan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching, searching, searching&#8230; everybody&#8217;s searching for competitive advantage. And now Google&#8217;s found it. Of course. And the top-ranked factor? Well, it sure sounds like Open Space to me! At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of &#8216;knowledge workers.&#8217; After all, Drucker invented the term in 1959. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/08\/open-space-is-competitive-advantage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open Space IS Competitive Advantage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-space-technology","category-social-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}