Don Tapscott Quotes

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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

  Anthony D. Williams, Don Tapscott (2011). “Wikinomics”, p.22, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved.

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  Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott (2016). “Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World”, p.148, Penguin

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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.

  Don Tapscott

  Effectiveness, Long, Innovation

  "The Spirit of Collaboration Is Touching All of Our Lives". Condensed Version of Installment Speech as Trent University Chancellor, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 07, 2013.

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• Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

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  Needs, Lifelong Learning, Plans

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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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.

  Don Tapscott

  Technology, Order, Marketing

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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.

  Don Tapscott

  Technology, Promise, Age

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• Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.

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  Teacher, Internet, Fountain

  Don Tapscott (2008). “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World”, McGraw Hill Professional

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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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  Country, Organization, Islands

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

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  Successful, Organization, Needs

  Don Tapscott (2014). “The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence”, p.252, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Your network is your filter.

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  Marketing, Filters

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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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  Discovery, People, Giving

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• Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.

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  School, Should, Teach

  Don Tapscott (2008). “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Those who grew up digital have different brains.

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  Brain, Digital, Different

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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

  "The Spirit of Collaboration Is Touching All of Our Lives" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2013.

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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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• 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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  Naked, Becoming, Institutions

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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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  Community, Partners, Employee

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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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, Thinking, Play

  Don Tapscott (2014). “The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence”, p.4, McGraw Hill Professional

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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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  Fields, Losing, Reason

  "Discovery Learning Is the New Higher Learning" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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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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  Leader, Looks, Way

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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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• 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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  Self, Organization, Style

  Anthony D. Williams, Don Tapscott (2011). “Wikinomics”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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  Fun, Balance, Trying

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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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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  Mother, Recovery, Creating

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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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  Democracy, Age, Digital

  "Don Tapscott: Transforming Capitalism Won’t Happen Without Leadership". www.thestar.com. May 17, 2013.

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