From the brilliant John Hagel at Edge Perspectives:
"In a perverse way, geographic spikes and firms face opposite
challenges. As spikes form and achieve critical mass, network effects
begin to take over and a virtuous cycle emerges – the more people that
participate in the spike, the more valuable the spike becomes as a
source of talent development. In contrast, the larger the firm
becomes, the more difficult it is to sustain high growth rates and the
more likely that inertial forces will take over and limit the potential
for talent development, setting in motion a vicious cycle – talent
tends to leave to seek out more hospitable homes and growth slows even
further. The winners in the global economy will be the firms that can
find ways to break this vicious cycle and harness network effects for
talent development both within and across firms." More
