Thinking About... The future is here, and many companies are pondering the human toll of limiting organizational interactions to videoconferencing, portable telephones, and E-mail. Charles Handy explores ways to combine "Trust and the Virtual Organization," asking, How do you manage people whom you do not see?

Executives pondering which parts of their information technology function to out source usually decide to keep stratcgic services in-house and to out source commodities-especially ones that suppliers claim they can provide inexpensively. If only the decision were that simple

Economists Avinash K. Dixit believe that there can be value in postponing capital investment decisions. Indeed, for many years, managers who have required net present value to be more than merely positive before making such a decision have intuitively followed the same principle.