An inventive child, he manages to draw himself into quite a few predicaments. The Harold books have now endured through a couple of generations, largely because they're about the compelling power of imagination to populate emptiness with richness. It's tempting to recall Harold when encountering Sherman Woo. Global Village Labs serves U S West's intranet, which is also known by the Global Village name. Woo and his group are aggressively adding business functionality to what began a few years ago as a budding knowledge repository and communitarian experiment.
Every intranet begins as a promising emptiness animated by a vision.
The best of the pioneers creating these new business realities for their organizations tend to do so with curiosity and bravery, never knowing exactly what might emerge from behind the next newly carpentered door. Sherman Woo is implacably optimistic about the Web, unafraid and ready to try new things. Woo possesses indispensable long-range vision and stays true to it in everything GVL attempts. And since his operating budget is inextricably linked to his ability to demonstrate in hard-dollar terms the business impact of each new application, vision pays rent on a daily basis. He regularly reports these accruals to U S West's senior management, lobbying hard to roll over much of the savings into new Web investment.