Instant Karma

Each chapter in this book is the culmination of years of work – thinking, reading, discussing and debating. If you are interested in delving deeper into these principles, there’s so much more to explore.  Here’s a short list of books and other resources we found particularly useful (under construction):

1. Associations Have Inherent Value - Knowing more people expands opportunity and conversation.

• The Wealth of Networks – Yochai Benckler
• Smart Mobs – Howard Rheingold
• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organization – Clay Shirky

2. Information Wants to be Free - Free society runs on free information. Information hoarding is the enemy of discourse and growth.

• The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture - John Battelle
• In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work – Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak
• Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know - Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak

3. Economies Have Currencies - All economies trade on specialized currencies.

• Out of the Crisis - W. Edwards Deming
• Man’s Search For Meaning – Viktor Frankl

4. Decentralization is freedom - Decentralized power structures spur creativity, growth, and innovation.

• The Future of Management – Gary Hamel

5. Rules Beget Rules - The more rules you have, the more rules you make.

• How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything…in Business (and in Life) - Dov Seidman

6. Karma is Real - You give more, you get more.

• The Great Influenza: The Story of the Greatest Pandemic in History – John M. Barry
• A New Brand World. 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21^st Century - Scott Bedbury
• First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently – Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
• Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers – Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything – Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

7. Context is Fluid - How you view an object today will be different tomorrow.  Don’t destroy tomorrow’s value.

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - Chip Heath and Dan Heath

8. Immediacy in all Things - Strike while the iron is hot.  Eat when the food is fresh.

9. Communication is Blood - Communication is the river upon which information flows.

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t - Jim Collins

10. Findability is Power - Unfindable information or people are irrelevant.