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Three Things Parents Must Learn From Kids About Tech

Three Things Parents Must Learn From Kids About Tech

In his interview with Yahoo!, Don Tapscott gives practical three-step advice on how parents can learn not to be afraid of their children’s use of technology, but rather to embrace it. Building on his own experience of raising children in the digital age, the advice...

(Almost) Everything We Think About Managing Talent is Wrong. Here’s Why.

(Almost) Everything We Think About Managing Talent is Wrong. Here’s Why.

Today’s workplace should look more like a jazz band (yes, that’s a pic of me) rather than a Dilbert-style bureaucracy that looks more like a dysfunctional marching band. As Dilbert pointed out (in the best selling management book of all time) our approach to talent management is deeply flawed.

Is the Digital Economy Still a Capitalist Economy?

Is the Digital Economy Still a Capitalist Economy?

In his latest piece on LinkedIn, Influencer Don Tapscott writes: Too bad the term “socialism” was appropriated by Karl Marx, because it would be an apt description of today’s emerging social economy. The social media revolution is transforming the...

As Toronto dithers, Guelph sets sights on 21st century

As Toronto dithers, Guelph sets sights on 21st century

In a special report to the Toronto Star, Don Tapscott writes: There is a city in Ontario that is well on its way to reimagining the role of local government. And it’s not Toronto. The city of Guelph is promoting entrepreneurship, making local government more...

Rethinking the United Nations for the Networked World

Rethinking the United Nations for the Networked World

This week's UN Climate Summit in New York did more than address the urgent issues of climate change. It also put a spotlight on the UN itself, and the role of the UN in tackling the most difficult problems of our increasingly complex world. Together with Bruce Jenks...

A New Strategy for Climate Change

A New Strategy for Climate Change

New York: Today’s Climate Summit at the United Nations is unprecedented. Even though it is not part of the UN’s official negotiating process for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this could be the most important and productive meeting on climate change ever held. In...

The New Interdependence: Four Pillars of Society

The New Interdependence: Four Pillars of Society

The “networked” approaches to public value and new models of global problem solving are enabled in part by the evolution of global society and the growth of an interdependent world. The digital revolution changes the way we organize capability in society to innovate,...

The Rise of New Institutional Models and Architectures

The Rise of New Institutional Models and Architectures

Smart organizations are encouraging, rather than fighting, the heaving growth of massive online communities, many of which emerged from the fringes of the web to attract tens of millions of participants overnight. Even ardent competitors are collaborating on...

Technology Push for Change

Technology Push for Change

Over the past 30 years, the digital revolution and specifically the Internet have evolved and grown in ways no one could have imagined. The Internet continues to fundamentally transform how business is conducted, how government operates and how individuals interact....

Demand Pull For Change

Demand Pull For Change

Throughout the twentieth century nation-states cooperated to build global institutions to facilitate joint action and address global problems. Many of these organizations were created in the aftermath of WWII. In 1944, 44 Allied nations gathered in Bretton Woods, New...

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