"An informed and enthusiastic guide to the new collaborative creativity."
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Times (London)
"A welcome and well-written corporate playbook for confusing times."
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BusinessWeek "An engaging mix of business, sociology, organizational theory, and technology writing and fits the mold of Malcolm Gladwell's perennial bestseller,
The Tipping Point."
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Newsweek
"While small groups have often been the foundation of great performance--think SWAT teams and Skunk Works--Jeff Howe has made the compelling case for the power of far larger communities of interest. He shows in
Crowdsourcing--with rich illustrations from Google and InnoCentive to Threadless and Wikipedia--that the right community with the right incentives can often invent, write, and run research and business initiatives more effectively and less expensively than traditional enterprise."
--Michael Useem, professor of management and director of the Leadership Center at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of
The Go Point: When It's Time to Decide and
The Leadership Moment "Beyond the wisdom of crowds is the work of crowds, a powerful and transformative source of creativity and an economic engine that defies traditional rules. Jeff Howe's guide to crowdsourcing--to use his perfect coinage--is insightful, fun, and indispensable to those who want to understand, or participate in, this amazing phenomenon."
--Steven Levy, author of
Hackers and
The Perfect Thing "Jeff Howe has captured a complex and vital change in the business landscape: in the next few years, your customers could become your collaborators, or your competitors. His ability to weave story and strategy together makes
Crowdsourcing a readable and indispensable guide to this new world."
--Clay Shirky, author of
Here Comes Everybody