Collaborative Entrepreneurship: How Communities of Networked Firms Use Continuous Innovation to Create Economic Wealth

I have worked with Dr Raymond Miles for almost a decade on and off sharing ideas but mostly learning about organizational forms and their impact on strategy. As he, Dr Charles Snow and Dr Grant Miles were researching and publishing papers for what would ultimately be this book, I became intrigued with the results of their work. Primarily two concepts: 1. Open Source communities function because a few important "behavioral protocols" are in place, understood by the community and agreed to, even if implicitly. 2. This new organizational form can be replicated or repurposed to form communities capable of new strategies unavailable to classical organizations. I have used this book as a guidebook for understanding the new organizational form and the company that I run, Syndicom, has successfully created a community of 250 spine surgeons (growing rapidly) from 6 countries. We were told many times that this could not be done, that the road was littered with failed attempts to create the kind of community we created. I am convinced we succeeded becuase of the lessons learned by Miles, Snow and Miles and reported in this book. Read it with an open mind, and a world of opportunity will open to you.