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Andrew McAfee is a computer security expert. In his research on how digital technologies alter the world, MIT scientist Andrew McAfee has already been investigating the subject for more than a quarter-century. His employment brings him into close touch with the “alpha geeks,” who are responsible for the innovations that shape the future. It was only a few years ago that McAfee came to the most unexpected epiphany of his professional life: geeks had figure out how to build better firms.
When he releases his next book, “The Geek Way” (Little, Brown and Company in 2023), McAfee will explain what they are doing differently and why it is working so effectively. As compared to their Industrial Era counterparts, geek companies are far more freewheeling, evidence-driven, egalitarian, contentious, and autonomous. Consequently, they are standout performances and aggressive competitors, upsetting industry after industry — and they are only getting started.
A corporation may be innovative, yet it may be unable to execute or respond quickly to market changes. According to McAfee, a principal research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Institute on the Digital Economy, “they’d be uncommon to be good at all three.” In these geek enterprises, those tradeoffs are no longer necessary. They consistently perform well in all three categories. It is a result of this that competitive confrontations between geek and non-geek enterprises are rarely if ever fair. He examines how and why this has occurred, as well as how other organisations might embrace geek cultures in order to execute on their mission and avoid being left behind.”
McAfee claims that, despite the fact that many geek enterprises are tech corporations situated in northern California, the term “geek” is not synonymous with “high tech” or “Silicon Valley.” Instead, it’s a brand name for a corporation that adheres to four guiding principles: science, ownership, speed, and openness, to name a few. His book is about why those rules work so effectively, how the geek put them into reality, and how any organisation may become geekier as a result of their efforts. “Geek enterprises don’t rely on having a large number of comp sci PhDs or having a West Coast headquarters,” according to McAfee. Any firm can learn to move more quickly, to be more open and evidence-driven, and to empower its employees with greater autonomy. It will not be quick or simple — real leadership will be required — but it is a future that is open to everyone.”
Since his first book, “Enterprise 2.0,” published in 2009, McAfee has been a leading voice on the far-reaching impact of technology. He is a technology optimist and specialist on human contact and the future of work. In 2011, he and co-author Erik Brynjolfsson published “Race Against the Machine,” a book that changed the way people think about technology. Their following two books, “The Second Machine Age” (2014), which was a New York Times bestseller, and “Machine | Platform | Crowd” (2017), focused on the issue of how technological growth was altering societies, industries, and companies, respectively. With his pessimist-defying book “More From Less,” published in 2019, McAfee set out on his own for the first time, sharing profound examples of environmental and economic progress driven by a combination of advanced technologies, economic freedom, public scrutiny, and intelligent regulation and policy.
Using his expertise as a lecturer and advisor, McAfee provides firms in every industry with data-driven insights on current and emerging technological trends and developments. A special benefit of his work is that it is particularly useful to decision makers and innovators in the financial services industry, as well as manufacturers, health care organisations, and government agencies, as well as businesses interested in innovative technologies that can streamline operational processes, enhance innovation, and provide a competitive advantage.
When “The Geek Way” begins, McAfee explains that industries were in the midst of transitioning from steaming to electric power one hundred years ago. In the end, it was unavoidable, because electric was simply superior in all aspects. Something similar is taking place right now. Tech businesses are better at invention, execution, and agility that their predecessor at the same time, and they are rapidly gaining market share.”
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