Are you keeping pace with change? by Andy Mundell. OnCompany CEO "The articles written or presented here by on.co.nz are a means of exploring these changes. They include manifestos written by leading business and acaedemic thinkers whose rational arguments and profound insights challege conventional and traditionally held views". "One of the main changes to the way business is now conducted comes from the ability to directly access the experts and specialists in all fields. The internet is a channel where specialisation prospers. You can now 'go direct' like never before. This is only natural as we all seek to fulfil our very specific needs. The example I often give to clients is what I call the "Black jellybean analogy". It is simply this.. more » Connected Intelligence: Leveraging Collective Wisdom
Mind of the Innovator: Taming the Traps of Traditional Thinking Making the Most of Your Time: Going Beyond To-Do Lists The Gobbledygook Manifesto The Eighth Self-Destructive Habit: When Companies Plateau Their People Bring Your Brand to Life: Harnessing the Power of Remarkable Corporate Video Stories Dear Bosses The Greening of Business: Recent Trends & Remaining Hurdles Forget Formulas: How Managers are Fooled in their Search for Success When You Absolutely, Positively Should NOT Use Email: A Civilized List The Happy at Work Manifesto Talking Strategy: Three Straightforward Ways to Make Your Strategy Stick Why Corporate “Goodness” is Not Enough: Rethinking Corporate Responsibility Keep It Real Not a Dirty Word: Seven Steps to Creating an Accountability-Based Organization The State of Competitive Advantage Purposive Drift: Making It Up As We Go Along You are Being Lied To and Other Truths Reclaim Your Life: A Two-Week Challenge to Help You Regain Time Work as Refuge: How to Add Meaning to Your Life at Work How to Become a Customer Action Hero in 10 Steps Manifesto for Experimentation Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way No Need to Fear: How Global Outsourcing Equals Opportunity Co-Creation Rules! Purpose: How to Define It and Make It Work for You and Your Company 04-Dec-2006 | Women Bloggers: Changing Their Worlds, Changing the World The Capitalist Manifesto: Managing the Rise of Citizen Investors The Seven Principles of Privacy: Protect Your Customers’ Privacy Ethically, Not Legally Declaration of Independents: Fighting against the Colonization of Our Local Communities by Big-Box Retailers. Beyond Snobbery: Grammar Need Not Be Cruel to Be Cool Accountability: Effective Managers Go First Slow Leadership: Creating Civilized Organizations A Manifesto for Mavericks Going for the Go Point Changing the Rules: Lessons from a Starfish World Get Out of the Technology Hex Change the World of Not-for-Profits 10 Unwealthy Habits The Rise and Fall of the Hit Tribal Knowledge: Business Wisdom Brewed from the Grounds of Starbucks Corporate Culture The Power of the Marginal Calling All Designers: Learn to Write! We Need a New Word for Brand Beginner's Guide to Business Blogging Never the Same: How to Create Transformational Experiences Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business Leaders Getting Out of Embed: The Role of Social Context in Decision Making Beyond Sustainability: Why an All-Consuming Campaign to Reduce Unsustainability Fails The ABCs of a Kaleidoscope Career Polkas, Pyrotechnics and Point D's: Pieces and parts of Seth Godin's new book, small is the new big It’s a Big, Blog World Out There: Five Quick Tips to Building a Better Blog Know the Codes: Why We Act, Buy, and Love as We Do 03-Jul-2006 | The Working Mother’s Manifesto: This is How We Do It Non-Geeks are Not Morons: The Change Function Model for Adopting Technology Strategy and the Fat Smoker The Rewritten Rules of Management Owner's Guide to Difficulties Management Advice: Which 90% is Crap? Citizen Innovator Vanished: Where has the Service Gone? The Simplicity Cycle The Care and Feeding of Your Network Thinking Through Problem Solving 111 Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts on Selling True Team Building: More than a Recreational Retreat Community Greens: Green Infrastructure and Community Revitalization Simplified Security: 25 Tips to Help Companies Implement Security
The advent of the internet has undoubtedly seen some of the most profound changes of recent times. While events since its creation may seem less spectacular, the changes to how the internet is now used by our society vastly eclipses the emergence of the technology itself. The world is changing faster than you know. Adjusting to these changes is a challenge to all. 
(Manifestos reproduced by on.co.nz with permission from ChangeThis.com.. ChangeThis is a new form of media that uses existing tools of the web as a way for new ideas to be created and spread. OnCompany supports their mission to spread important ideas and expand views)".
“The World is Flat, declared Thomas Friedman. It is a Long Tail, says Chris Anderson. Everything is Miscellaneous, avers David Weinberger. Seeing it as The Wisdom of Crowds was a profound insight from James Surowiecki. Their perspectives addressed several aspects of business, life and the human condition in general. The truth is that we have reached not one era, but a multitude of eras, all at once and in a time-space compressed fashion. more »
Vasu Srinivasan Business Technology 
Matthew May, author of "Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way" and a popular ChangeThis manifesto on the subject, now brings our attention to the ‘Seven Sins of Solutions’, the tr... more »
Matthew E. May Business Other 
The author of one of ChangeThis’ most popular manifesto, 25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself, Rajesh Setty returns with a new set of suggestions for optimizing your abilities. He asserts that even thou... more »
Rajesh Setty Business Other
David M. Scott, the author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR, says it best in introducing his manifesto: “Oh jeez, not another flexible, scalable, groundbreaking, industry-standard, cutting-edge... more »
David Meerman Scott Business Culture
In writing his book, Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies…and How to Break Them, Sheth found seven reasons behind why successful companies have such a short life span. After publishing, he fel... more »
Jagdish Sheth Business
Every company must tell their story. Thomas Clifford is a filmmaker, an expert on telling these stories through corporate videos. Say hello to emotionally engaging pieces of film that will spark co... more »
Thomas R. Clifford Business Other
Albin and Kamler create some of the freshest material found on the Internet. This letter to bosses says what we can’t all say: we leave our jobs because you, dear boss, have not lived up to our sta... more »
Josh Kamler & Axel Albin Business Culture
In late 2006, Andrew Winston co-authored Green to Gold, a book detailing what companies must do to ‘go green.’ Here, he writes an original reflection on the recent trends and remaining challenges i... more »
Andrew Winston Business Culture Politics
Phil Rosenzweig argues convincingly that managers should stop trying to find the formula for success, but should adopt a more realistic view, one based on probability and changeability. more »
Phil Rosenzweig Business
For those of us email addicts who can’t quit cold turkey but are increasing stressed by the size of our inbox each morning, Shipley and Schwalbe offer advice for managing our input and output in th... more »
David Shipley and Will Schwalbe Business Culture Technology
Much of what happens to us in life is beyond our control, but Kjerulf tells us that being happy at work is a choice. His message is simple, yet inspiring: When you decide to take steps toward being... more »
Alexander Kjerulf Business Culture
The Heath Bros. walk the walk in this manifesto about three straightforward ways to make your strategy work. They preach the power of concrete language and stories to communicate strategy.. more »
Chip Heath and Dan Heath Business Culture Other
Arena argues that the widely-held notion that corporate responsibility is about “doing good” marginalizes an important part of doing business in the 21st century. Instead, it is about innovation, c... more »
Christine Arena Business Culture Politics
Julien Smith confronts companies and marketers with a deceptively simple question: Are You Keeping It Real? And if you don’t know what he means, you probably aren’t. So, read up on how ... more »
Julien Smith Business
Prosen argues that the best way to produce extraordinary results within your organization is to create an accountability-based culture focused on producing results, not activities. more »
Bob Prosen Business
Looking forward, competitive advantage demands competent process management to navigate the tumultuous and frenetic environment that enterprises face. Your value acceleration, not just value creati... more »
Mitchell Gooze Business
It is a common theory that successful people live their lives like a project plan, so we struggle to shape our lives along a pre-determined path. Instead, Oliver asserts that that the majority of p... more »
Richard Oliver Culture Other
This is a manifesto’s manifesto and an absolute ChangeThis reader must-read. Here, Larry Winget is everything you know him to be: upfront, relentless, hilarious, and full of wisdom about giving and... more »
Larry Winget Business Other
January 1st comes around and we’ve all made a resolution or two. By February 1st, we’ve failed more than we’ve succeeded and are back on last year’s track. Stuart Levine has the antidote. Here are ... more »
Stuart R. Levine Business Culture Other
The alarm goes off. You stretch, yawn, put your feet on the floor, one foot in front of the other, get started on another unfulfilling day at the office. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Jonatho... more »
Jonathon Flaum Business Culture
“Rate your experience from 1 to 10.” “Would you recommend our company?” We ask the questions of our customers. But what do we do with their answers? Jeanne Bliss gives us the action plan to actuall... more »
Jeanne Bliss Business
Jaffe declares that marketing organizations need to foster and adopt an aggressive and intense culture of experimentation. But how to take the risk? He’ll present 10 critical components to take on ... more »
Joseph Jaffe Business Culture
One million ideas a year. A culture of innovation. An intrinsic belief that good enough never is. Matthew May’s manifesto shows you how Toyota’s principles and practices will help you engage your c... more »
Matthew E. May Business Culture Technology
Here, Steve Hamm asserts that outsourcing need not result in the vilification of foreign workers and the American companies who choose to find cost solutions overseas. Instead, he believes it offer... more »
Steve Hamm Business Culture Politics Technology
Cherkoff and Moore present inspiring examples of open source marketing that prove engagement trumps control in maximizing customer experience and making meaning. It may be a platitude to say that t... more » James Cherkoff & Johnnie Moore Business Culture Technology
Just read the first page of this manifesto, and you’ll understand exactly what it is to have purpose. Read the subsequent pages and you’ll find just how to develop your own sense of purpose through... more »
Nikos Mourkogiannis Business Culture
Women are the power consumers and connectors of the Internet, and yet, their influence has mostly been invisible to the mainstream media and industry pundits. The BlogHer web community was created ... more »
Elisa Camahort Business Culture Politics Technology
The citizen investor is you. Me. Uncle Joe. With our investment comes the power to demand better of the corporations we invest in. This revolution in corporate ownership demands a revolution in cor... more »
Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik, David Pitt-Watson Business
Technology is endangering our privacy. Every company that we do business with holds a representation of ourselves somewhere in their data stores. Because laws make poor privacy guidelines, David Ho... more »
David Holtzman Business Culture Technology
Wal-Mart. Home Depot. Walgreens. The proof of corporate retail expansion is evident at almost every freeway exit ramp. But at what cost? A blighted landscape. A lack of diversity. The demise of com... more »
Stacy Mitchell Business Culture Politics
Here, June Casagrande (so not your ninth grade English teacher) will reassure you that it’s okay not to care about grammar. Just what you wanted to hear! But with humor and enthusiasm, she will sho... more »
June Casagrande Culture
How far are you willing to go to facilitate change in your organization? Management expert, David Maister, says you’ve got to be willing to go first. And he means all the way, even to the point of ... more »
David Maister Business
Adrian Savage proposes a return to civilization and humanity in organizations. Does this sound something like your day at the office? You are driving on a rain-soaked freeway. The other cars are sp... more »
Adrian Savage Business Culture
Bill Taylor, co-founder of Fast Company, and Polly LaBarre present this brazen manifesto that describes the changing state of business leadership and asserts that the only companies and leaders tha... more »
William Taylor and Polly LaBarre Business Culture
The Go Point: the moment when a decision becomes action. With an easy writing style and on-the-ground stories, Michael Useem, Director of the Center for Leadership and Change at the Wharton School,... more »
Michael Useem Business Culture
Such seemingly dissimilar groups as the Apache Indians, music swapping programs, Wikipedia, Alcoholics Anonymous and Al Queda have one thing in common: they are all starfish. According to Brafman a... more »
Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom Business Culture Technology
Ever wonder what those folks in IT actually do everyday? Most likely, they are busy defending your company against invaders, inefficiency and wasted resources. How? Here, Sean Hull, “self-appointe... more »
Sean Hull Business Technology
This energizing manifesto tackles the increasing dissonance between the archaic goals of typical Not-for-Profits and the realities of business. Suddes challenges you to think differently about thes... more »
Tom Suddes Business Politics Other
A serial entrepreneur and wealth consultant, Alicia Castillo Holley, breaks down the negative habits that prevent us from gaining wealth. Written to address many individual viewpoints, she offers i... more »
Alicia Castillo Culture Other
Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail, chronicles the history of the blockbuster and explains why the traditional model of marketing and selling music no longer works. more »
Chris Anderson Business Culture Technology
Sharing insider information, John Moore gives us a peek into the corporate culture that informs the unparalleled success of the Starbucks brand. more »
John Moore Business Culture
Paul Graham discusses how outsiders, free from convention and expectations, often generate the most revolutionary of ideas. Clever and entertaining, this manifesto will energize you and spark your ... more »
Paul Graham Business Culture Technology
In this succinct and timely manifesto, Derek Powazek demands that web designers learn to write in order to optimize the user’s experience. more »
Derek Powazek Business Technology Other
To unlock their brand's true potential, today’s companies need to let go of slick superficiality and embrace authenticity! more »
Michel Hogan Business Culture
The what, why, and how of business blogging, by business blog expert, Debbie Weil. Originally a limited release, this critical resource guide is available to you once again. more »
Debbie Weil Business Technology
What does it take to change the world? To change people? To make a difference, every day? Charles Halton presents 18 characteristics to help you create transformational experiences. more »
Charles Halton Business Culture Politics Other
This inclusive manifesto will introduce you to the principles and concepts of Web 2.0, so you can prepare your organization for this technological sea change. more »
Troy Angrignon Business Culture Technology
Decision making is an inherently social exercise. Here, Michael Mauboussin details three shocking psychological studies that reveal just how another’s action or opinion can profoundly change your o... more »
Michael Mauboussin Business Culture
John Ehrenfeld proposes a radically different conversation about sustainability, one that moves away from mere problem solving, demands a new definition and envisions infinite possibilities. more »
John Ehrenfeld Business Culture Politics
The twentieth-century linear career model, of rising to the top of a corporation and being a big, fat, ethically unscrupulous power-monger, is dead. Mainiero and Sullivan show you how to create a s... more »
Lisa A. Mainiero and Sherry E. Sullivan Business Culture
Here’s just a taste of Seth Godin’s latest book, small is the new big, a plentiful well of inspiration for your business and you. more »
Seth Godin Business
Evans details how to make your company’s blog better and why it is an essential way to reach your customers. more »
Meryl K. Evans Business Culture Technology
Rapaille reveals the unconscious motivators behind how we act and what we buy by unearthing the unique culture codes found within each of us. more »
Clotaire Rapaille Culture
Carol Evans encourages working mothers (and fathers) to ask their organizations for what they need to attain a healthy balance between work and family. more »
Carol Evans Business Culture
Pip Coburn uses his Change Function model to contend that new technology should be inspired by the users’ practical needs, not only the technologists’ lofty vision. more »
Pip Coburn Business Technology
David Maister offers advice on how to fight strategic flab and make change happen by encouraging a diet of good habits and short-term goals. more »
David Maister Business
In this hard-charging manifesto, Tom Ehrenfeld directs our attention to Bill Swanson's act of plagiarism and asserts that by letting Swanson get by with a slap on the wrist is like letting the Enr... more »
Tom Ehrenfeld Business Culture
When you feel the tension building in that space between your shoulder blades, or you lay in bed at night unable to stop that film replaying all the days stresses, use Peter Albert's techniques for... more »
Peter Albert Other
The way business advice is sold today makes it difficult to cull the good from the bad. With refreshing candidness, Bob Sutton shows how to divine diamonds from dust with these guidelines. more »
Bob Sutton Business
Who knows the most about a product? The creator or the user? Take, for example, surfboards. There is a whole population of surfers whose everyday focus is to maximize their experience in taking a w... more »
Eric Von Hippel Business Culture Technology
Groceries ordered online and delivered to your home? Sure. Plan an entire trip to the other side of the world with just a few clicks of your mouse? Certainly. Assisted by digital and technological ... more »
Michael Chaffin Business
Most cliches find their origin in truth, and "less is more" is one that rings true whether we are discussing a new marketing piece swimming with text and graphics or an ice cream sundae swimming in... more »
Dan Ward Business Technology
If everyone is networking, who's working for you? Allard and Banfield will show you how to "get 100, 200, 500 people thinking about how they can help YOU with your project, your passion, your schoo... more »
Bob Allard Business
Problems lurk everywhere: under that stack of papers on your desk, in the unreturned phone call, within the carelessly worded email zipped off before its writer begins a long afternoon commute. Val... more »
Valarie A. Washington Business
This masterly list of not-always-obvious tips reminds us that every relationship is a sales relationship. Tom Peters' thoughts on selling will sharpen your innate sales sense—for the expert or novi... more »
Tom Peters Business
Does the phrase "team building" bring to mind interminable meetings briefly punctuated by stale, free sandwiches and awkward get-to-know-you games? Use Kevin Eikenberry's high-CARB approach instead... more »
Kevin Eikenberry Business
Scientists have proven that a lack of nature can have negative effects. Learn, with help from Kate Herrod, why a slice of green is good and vital. more »
Kate Herrod Culture Politics Other
This manifesto helps companies of all sizes understand and implement the necessary level of security. The 25 tips cover everything from physical security to SPAM. more »
Ravi Char Business Technology
