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Your network is your filter.
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Filters
Marketing
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Those who grew up digital have different brains.
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Brain
Different
Digital
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Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.
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School
Should
Teach
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Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing.
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Failing
Succeed
World
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Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.
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Teacher
Fountain
Internet
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Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.
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Design
Generations
Wherever You Are
Wherever
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The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved.
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To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.
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Needs
Organization
Successful
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Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.
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Knowledge
Commit
Exploding
Lifelong
Lifelong Learning
Needs
Plans
Plan
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To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.
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Age
Technology
Promise
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These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.
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Kids
Technology
Generations
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All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.
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Business
Creativity
Sparks
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The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.
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Children
Play
Thinking
Transforming
Wealth
Work World Children
Raise
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Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff.
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Becoming
Institutions
Naked
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Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.
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Organization
Self
Style
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Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.
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Divided
Global Economy
Leader
Lost Trust
Unstable
World
Deeply
Unequal
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Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.
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Technology
Marketing
Order
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Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
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Government
Collaboration
Cost
Dissent
Insurrection
Rebellion
Drops
Transaction
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You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.
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Inspiration
Military
Motivation
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The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.
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Assertion
Blanket
Business World
Corporations
Issues
People
Play
Business World People
Complex
Corporation
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We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.
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Running
Age
Conclusion
Gas
Human History
Logical
Punctuation
Finally
Industrial
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Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.
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Extraordinary
Leader
Looks
Sparkling
Way
Initiatives
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If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.
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Business Partners
Community
Customers
Employee
Including
Multiple
Partners
Communities
Companies
Employees
Eventually
Lead
Operate
Stakeholders
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There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.
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Creating
Invention
Mother
Recovery
World People New
So-Called
Young People
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Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
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Age
Active
Citizenry
Deliberation
Democracy
Digital
Digital Age
Offers
Weak
Industrial
Mandate
Representative
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The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.
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Courses
Danger
Fields
Losing
Monopoly
Online
Professors
Reason
University
Visible
Good Reason
Respective
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Don’t have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.
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Balance
Fun
Trying
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Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.
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Enjoyable
Satisfying
Life Work Fun
Escape
Pays
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Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.
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Running
Age
Corporations
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When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, 'My children are prodigies!' But then I noticed all their friends were like them, so that was a bad theory.
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Technology
Children
Use
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In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.
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Access
Discovery
Giving
People
Printing
Printing Press
Basis
Contained
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Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
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Learning
Collaboration
Economy
Effectiveness
Important
Innovation
Long
Our Lives
Problem
Spirit
Better Way
Part
Collaborate
Ever-Changing
Institution
Life Long
Just Because
Learn
Penetrating
Solving
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In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.
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Agency
Air
Country
Failing
Islands
Linked
Organization
Shareholders
Succeed
Sure
Networks
Create
Island
Glass
No Business
Stakeholders
Value
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