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We also want to share a wider set of links to interesting and valuable organizations, all of which we know personally and can recommend as sources of information, advice, and services that will help you make the future of work constructive and meaningful.

Gil Gordon Associates

Gil Gordon, or, as we prefer, "Uncle Gil." Sage advice from a veteran thought leader of the by-gone telework era. Gil's always on to something new and refreshing. A must visit for anyone interested in making distributed work a reality.

http://www.gilgordon.com/

Next Generation Consulting

The virtual place to be. Rebecca Ryan knows more about Gen X'ers, their work preferences, and the cool places they want to be, than anyone else on this planet. She is "working in the future." This is the place to go if you want help figuring out where you have to be to attract the talent you need.

http://www.keepyoungtalent.com/

Neal Zimmerman/At Work At Home

OK so, we're biased. Neal Zimmerman has the Colonel's secret recipe for designing way cool work-at-home environments.

http://www.atworkathome.com/

Stanford University Center for Work, Technology, and Organization

We think the Stanford bunch knows what they are doing. That's a high compliment coming from two Berkeley types like us.

www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/overview/welcome.shtml

The Live/Work Institute

Local (to Northern California, that is) architects trying to make a difference in bring living and working together in an urban environment. Check it out.

http://www.live-work.com/revised/lwi/

Herman Miller for Business

From our friends at Herman-Miller. Excellent resource for background material on office and furniture design.

http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/IP/0,,a10-c362,00.html

The Fourth Turning

Again, friends of ours. If you want to know what's likely to happen in the next five years or so, go here. Warning: It's scary stuff. We told you so. If you are the type that hides under the bed when the thunder boomers start-this is not for you.

http://www.fourthturning.com/

Chartered Accountants of Canada/Research

OK, it's a work in progress, all right? But when you see accountants burning the midnight oil over how to measure (and account for) social capital you might want to take notice.

http://www.cica.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/3066/la_id/1.htm

The Institute for Community

You can build a better community and make money doing it! Bruno Bottarelli shows you how.

http://www.instituteforcommunity.org/

The World Cafe

The only way to foster deep learning in large group settings. These guys (actually, David Isaacs and Juanita Brown) get it. Check it out.

http://www.theworldcafe.com/

Barry Wellman, University of Toronto

If you want to know anything, and everything, about social networks, start here. Simply the best resource there is. Barry also agrees with where we think things are going.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/

Cultural Studies and Analysis

Our buds, the anthropologists. From Disney to Dean, they got it all covered. And yes, Jamie was an old Special Forces buddy of Grantham's.

http://www.culturalanalysis.com/docs/contact.html

Soci Alchemy

Want to build an on-line community? Here you go, the absolute stone-cold experts and how to get it done and stop talking about it.

http://www.socialchemy.com/whoweare.htm

Daniel Pink/Free Agent Nation

Another one of our favorites. You can't survive in the future unless you follow what Dan Pink is doing.

http://www.freeagentnation.com/

Bill Jensen/Simpler Work

Keep it simple, stupid! A guider to getting your work and your life in a little more sane order.

http://www.simplerwork.com/sp-main.html

Richard Florida/The Rise of the Creative Class

Nothing more to say. A classic. Richard Florida is where it's at. The little red book of our revolution.

http://www.creativeclass.org/about.htm

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