20. " [It's] sort of a reverse social Darwinism: The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get, the more people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum solutions . That is, win-win solutions instead of win-lose solutions.... Because we find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well - so we have to find ways that we can all win, we have to accommodate each other. And, on balance, that's a humanizing and elevating development.” THE DEBRIEFING: Bill Clinton Wired Magazine, by Karen Breslau and Katrina Heron, December 2000 Issue 8.12 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/clinton.html?pg=3
39. Business is also, the Front Line …in an ideological battle that has been quietly playing out for the past several decades
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41. In pursuit of competitive advantages, management consultants and MBA's are playing with organizational models that challenge the ivory towers of board rooms and the status quo of control
43. Boundaryless Organizations “Traditional companies with boundaries, rules, and extensive plans are at a supreme disadvantage in today's globalized world, where technology changes daily and the value chain commands changes of its own. In a traditional company where people are categorized into neatly defined positions with their job descriptions filed in triplicate in the Human Resources department, the way a company plans its business can cause it to sink or swim; bad planning can mean lost opportunities, being overtaken by the competition, loss of revenues, or watching its niche slip away because of a new technology, an alteration in the global marketplace, or simply a failure to market its product effectively.” Source?????
44. Boundaryless Organizations “Traditional companies with boundaries, rules, and extensive plans are at a supreme disadvantage in today's globalized world, where technology changes daily and the value chain commands changes of its own. In a traditional company where people are categorized into neatly defined positions with their job descriptions filed in triplicate in the Human Resources department, the way a company plans its business can cause it to sink or swim; bad planning can mean lost opportunities, being overtaken by the competition, loss of revenues, or watching its niche slip away because of a new technology, an alteration in the global marketplace, or simply a failure to market its product effectively.” Jack Welch
54. We will find it together, not by fighting each other, but by meeting each other…
55. and talking with one another across political chasms, across cultural chasms, across racial chasms, across class chasms, across digital chasms.
56. Cluetrain Manifesto “A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter—and getting smarter faster than most companies. These markets are conversations. Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking. Whether explaining or complaining, joking or serious, the human voice is unmistakably genuine. It can't be faked.” http://cluetrain.com/
65. “ I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.” Thomas Jefferson