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Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
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Foundation
Secrecy
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For digital natives, public schools are jails
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Digital
Jail
School
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Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.
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Genius
Innovation
May
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Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*
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Important
Mobile
Social
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Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.
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Jobs
Ceo
Company
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The only thing better than living on a Mac is living in Hogwarts.
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Hogwarts
Living On
Macs
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I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.
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Believer
Multiple
Point Of View
Views
Points
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Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.
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Ceo
New Normal
Should
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The potential for social commerce today is “inﬁnite”… Every ecommerce site will have to adapt
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Site
Social
Today
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I believe in books. I believe more in cross-media - how characters are adapting across mediums.
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Believe
Book
Character
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The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
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Asking Questions
First Time
Firsts
Secretary
Demanding
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I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.
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Adapting
Mediums
Believe I Believe More
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In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.
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Air
Bigs
Grows
Transition
Business Model
Model
Throw
Transitions
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If you dont measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
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Achievement
Levels
People
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If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
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Achievement
Levels
Measure
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I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
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Government
Sports
Ran
School
Captain
Student
Newspaper
Picked
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When we started EA in 1982, our goal was to make games as big a media as visual entertainment or movies. That was how big we dreamed at the time.
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Entertainment
Visual
Dreamed
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If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.
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Noodles
Smarter
Advances
Offer
Resist
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The Internet Treasure companies tend to go public rather than get acquired, although there are clear exceptions, like Instagram, YouTube, Skype and PayPal.
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Instagram
Paypal
Skype
Treasure
Youtube
Acquired
Exceptions
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As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I'm bad with people who aren't self-motivated. And now, when I see them coming, I run the other way.
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Grow Up
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The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.
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Atari
Console
Entertainment
Interactive
Nintendo
Outcast
Recession
Video Games
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In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.
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Believable
Upside Down
Work Business World
Work Business Start
Upside
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Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.
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Avoiding
Founding
Hiring
Pitfalls
Rapid Growth
Stay True
Work Out
Executive
Rapid
Survive
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Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.
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Smart People
Sufficient
Entrepreneurs
Move On
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For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an 'Internet treasure' - a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn't live without.
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Missionary
Treasure
Entrepreneurs
Outcome
Proves
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It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.
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Change Power Technology
Rapidly
Video Games
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One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
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Discussion
Entrepreneur
Managers
Good Great Know
Entrepreneurs
Skill
The One Thing
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Once you find out that someone likes a certain game on Facebook, now you know what kind of virtual gift you can get them. You can send them a little decoration. Social games give you goals where you can help and reward your friends.
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Decoration
Likes
Facebook
Reward
Send
Virtual
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The world of digital media is being transformed. A bunch of new businesses can be reinvented, thanks to social graphs, the mobile internet, and the new shopping habits of the young. Those are going to create a whole generation of cool new companies.
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Bunch
Digital
Shopping
Thanks
Transformed
Reinvented
Habits
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Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
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Counterproductive
Motivated
Manager
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The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older, and has no direct authority over you. Lack of context and perspective can cost you months and years--with a bad career choice, an unwise relocation, short-term negotiating posture, and, generally speaking, sophomoric thinking.
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Careers
Thinking
Years
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