In an age of radical openness, it’s becoming more difficult to keep anything a secret. Open source platforms and collaborative working models are building alliances that require trust, amplifying the ability to impact—across government, enterprise and our own everyday decision making. The need to be effective at solving what are increasingly complex problems is forcing a new, preemptive transparency among government and corporations, and a backlash against…
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We The Economy.
October 27, 2014 No Comment 37 ViewsAn ambitious new project was launched last week, the result of 20 award-winning directors like John Chu, Adrian Grenier and Catherine Hardwicke, teaming up with 10 highly credentialed economists to create 20 short films that each explain a fundamental aspect of the economy in 5-8 min. Designed to increase our society’s overall understanding of how the economy works (sans flagrant political POV), the series is called WeTheEconomy. We were invited to play a…
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Moving From a Culture of Extraction to Contribution.
October 20, 2014 No Comment 82 ViewsAs we state in THEBIGSHIFT microsite, “probably the biggest shift of all that we’ve observed is the rising consciousness that we are not simply moving from an analog world to a digital one, but instead are seeing the diminishing returns of a culture and economy rooted in extraction, as compared to the thrust and velocity generated by innovators who choose to approach it all with a sense of contribution. As this excerpt from an article last week in the NY Times…
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