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Workplace experts are only beginning to grasp the phenomenon. "In the information age, knowledge is critical to business--and it's the employee who owns it," says Hamilton Beazley, 58, chairman of the Strategic Leadership Group, a consultancy in Arlington, Va. Beazley coined the term ghost work--now catching on around the country--to describe the additional workload taken on by surviving employees, usually without their former colleagues' trove of knowledge. "It's as if they're suddenly asked to start speaking Greek," says Beazley. "It can be totally demoralizing and can cripple the individual as well as the organization...
Staff writers ANITA HAMILTON and LEV GROSSMAN and regular contributor MARYANNE BUECHNER, with fins, produced our annual Best Inventions feature...
...HAMILTON: "I've tested new products since the early 1990s, when I started out at a computer magazine. What made the Inventions project fun was that we could focus purely on great ideas without worrying whether they would be successful in the marketplace. For example, I love the virtual keyboard designed by VKB. Typing on it was like magic because the keyboard is an optical illusion. Will it ever get to market? Who knows? It's still a great idea...
...guzzlers would have to be redesigned to dispense hydrogen and reprogram faulty control systems. But if the result were a fleet of safe, fuel-efficient, nonpolluting cars and trucks that reduced or eliminated the world's dependence on fossil fuel, it would be worth the effort. --By Anita Hamilton...
...support, portending political infighting that will distract the country's leaders from China's pressing social and economic challenges, which include rising unemployment and epidemic corruption. "Jiang has made a terrible mistake" by undermining Hu and hanging on to power, says Cheng Li, a professor and China expert at Hamilton College...