If you haven’t already done so, I recommend you read the essays by Paul Graham. In particular, “What Business Can Learn from Open Source” and “Power of the Marginal” .
He is one of the most progressive thinkers with regards to new business concepts. Beware if you like Jack Welch and the the other big dogs though, you might find Paul’s work hard to swallow. But that probably means that you really need to read it.
Here are some of my all-time favorite quotes from his work:
“Work like a dog being taken for a walk, instead of an ox being yoked to the plow.” – from his essay “Power of the Marginal”
“The atmosphere of the average workplace is to productivity what flames painted on the side of a car are to speed.”
and
“The basic idea behind office hours is that if you can’t make people work, you can at least prevent them from having fun.” – from his essay “What Business Can Learn from Open Source”
