Is Your Career Doomed? Mine Might Be., Stephen Shapiro
This is an entry more about Stephen’s career of being in innovation speaker being doomed than yours, but there is an underlying message – the innovation bell curve and the effects of the current economy has on the ends of it.  Another interesting related article: Starbucks and the Bell Curve

IT: Friend or Foe of Innovation?, Innovating To Win
This thought provoking blog entry on the Innovating To Win blog discusses another person's blog entry titled Musings on Innovation, Knowledge Management and Social Software by Kathy Harris.  The message of both entries is about innovation being “fundamentally linked” to knowledge management.  A good quote from the Innovating To Win entry:

…Workers are not interest[ed] in accessing data or documents.  They want to get at actionable knowledge—specific information that is precisely meaningful in the context of their work at the moment of need.  This is not what traditional knowledge management solutions provide. …

The Number One Dream Killer: Doing What Works, Jonathan Mead
This is more of a personal entry (not corporate or business) about how following the safe and easy path is unlikely to lead you to new opportunities.  A good quote from the entry:

If we want to have any hope at making our dreams a reality, we have to carve out our own path. We have to find a way to get paid to be ourselves. We must drop conventional wisdom (collective assumption) and break away from the herd.