Today's Pick: McKinsey Quarterly's top 10 for 2007

As we arrive back fresh at our workplace, full of resolutions about how to make the year even better than last, it’s a great time to catch up on the strategic reading you missed last year.

Don’t miss McKinsey Quarterly‘s top 10 business management articles for 2007.

Highilights include:

• Eight business technology trends to watch: find out how new and emerging technologies aimed at enhancing the way the Internet is used will change how companies innovate, managers make decisions, and businesses lower costs, tap talent, or realize new business opportunities.
• Innovative management: Gary Hamel and Lowell Bryan discuss innovative management models that respond to today’s competitive forces with an emphasis on collaboration and talent.
• Market fundamentals — 2000 versus 2007: Comparing the market’s recent turmoil with its decline at the end of the dot-com boom can help investors assess what might come next.

Read more: The McKinsey Quarterly Top Ten Newsletter

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