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November 11, 2015
Toronto Gurus Win Big at ‘Oscars of Management Thinking’
From The Toronto Star: Three University of Toronto professors and business leaders placed in the top 15 in a recent ranking of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers, said an article in The Toronto Star on November 12. Don Tapscott, Roger Martin and Richard Florida — all tied to the Rotman School of Management — stood alongside leading commerce theorists and executives at the biennial Thinkers50 awards in London this week. The awards – dubbed “the Oscars of management thinking” by the Financial Times – recognize leadership and innovation in management across fields and borders. Tapscott, fourth on the Thinkers50 list for the second time in a row and author of the 2006 bestseller Wikinomics, said he was proud of Rotman’s achievement, but put emphasis on the ongoing “problem of prosperity.”
Other articles on the Thinkers50 appeared at the National Post, The Globe & Mail,Business Insider, Les Echos, Mint, The Economic Times, Revista Capital, Forbes, Inc., Redaski, Veja, and several other publications from November 9 to 13.
October 16, 2015
One citizen’s manifesto for the 2015 federal election
Canada needs a responsive and open government that provides leadership for our transition to an innovation economy and a digital age, writes business thinker Don Tapscott.
I believe Canada needs a responsive, open and strong government that provides leadership for our transition to an innovation economy and a digital age. This is not a time for tinkering but a time of great change. To me, the defining issues of this election are clear.
Read the full article in the Toronto Star.
September 11, 2015
Why My Kids Are My “Reverse Mentors”
In the mid-1990s, I began studying the behaviours of kids when I noticed how my 10-year-old daughter was effortlessly able to use sophisticated technologies. At first, I thought, “She’s a prodigy!!!” but then I noticed all her friends were like that too, so I decided that was a bad theory.
I began to theorize instead that this was the first time in history when children were an authority on something really important. (I was an authority on model trains when I was a kid.) Today, the 11-year-old at the table is an authority on revolution changing business and society.
August 20, 2015
Thinkers50 India recently asked Don Tapscott to explain Capitalism 2.0
“Capitalism is the Crisis.” (This is not a crisis of capitalism says one Occupy Wall Street Sign.)
The continuing global economic mess is causing many to question “the system.” From student protests in Europe to the Occupy movement globally, many are asking what are the fundamental problems with capitalism and how do we fix them.
August 9, 2015
What Netflix’s Extended Parental Leave Policy Really Means for Millennial Workers
It’s great to hear that Netflix is offering employees up to one year of paid parent leave. This is a big move forward in one of the only countries on earth that does not guarantee parents leave with pay to care for a new baby.
But as an employer, I think the real story is the way Netflix handles parents during that year. Netflix employees don’t have to stay at home with their baby for the entire time. They’re supposed to confer with managers and colleagues to decide how much work they can handle, and how much time they need at home with the baby.
July 21, 2015
Great Leaders Don’t Have Followers: They Collaborate
As Peter Drucker said years ago, stable times require excellence and good management. As we transition to a new age, our organizations need more; they need leadership. So managers shouldn’t just manage. Today they need to lead and think of themselves primarily as leaders rather than just managers.
In the past, tinkering could do the trick. These times require deep innovation and transformation, though, and that means leadership. However, leadership is changing too.
June 24, 2015
These 5 Crises Show That Democratic Capitalism Is in Deep Trouble and Needs Fixing
It’s now been almost four years since the Occupy Wall Street movement began. There has been much discussion of the so-called crisis of capitalism. But comparing today’s situation with previous tough and volatile times, is there really a crisis?
Read Don Tapscott’s full article on The Huffington Post Here.
June 11, 2015
Don Tapscott: Why I’m joining the World Economic Forum
Don Tapscott is joining the World Economic Forum as a Senior Advisor. He’s helping the Forum in the development of its Global Agenda Platform which is seeking to build communities of NGOs, academics, governments and business leaders around critical issues facing humanity.
“I think the time is right to help take the organization to the next level as an influential powerhouse to improve the state of the world.”
June 4, 2015
BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: How the Underlying Technology of Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Coming from Portfolio in April 2016
The Portfolio imprint of Penguin Random House has acquired world rights to BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: How the Underlying Technology of Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World by Don Tapscott, the bestselling author of Wikinomics, and his son Alex Tapscott. This will be the first book to explain why blockchain technology – a truly open, distributed, global platform – will fundamentally change what we can achieve online, how we do it, and who can participate.
Literary agent Wesley Neff at Leighco Inc. negotiated a three-way deal with Adrian Zackheim at Portfolio US, Andrea Magyar at Portfolio Canada, and Joel Rickett at Portfolio UK. Simultaneous publication in all three countries is expected in April 2016.
Over the past thirty years, no theorist of the digital age has better explained the next big thing than Don Tapscott. In Wikinomics (2006) he was the first to show how the Internet provides the first global platform for mass collaboration. Now he writes about a profound technological shift that will change how the world does business – and everything else – using blockchain technology, which powers the digital currency Bitcoin.
The Internet as we know it is great for collaboration and communication, but deeply flawed when it comes to commerce and privacy. The new blockchain technology facilitates peer-to-peer transactions without any intermediary such as a bank or governing body. Keeping the user’s information anonymous, the blockchain validates and keeps a permanent public record of all transactions. This means that personal information is private and secure, while all activity is transparent and incorruptible – reconciled by mass collaboration and stored in code on a digital ledger. In other words we won’t need to trust each other in the traditional sense, because trust is built into the system itself.
Bitcoin is only one application for this great innovation in computer science. The blockchain can hold any legal document, from deeds and marriage licenses to educational degrees and birth certificates. Tapscott calls it “the World Wide Ledger.” It enables smart contracts, decentralized autonomous organizations, decentralized government services, and transactions among things.
The forthcoming book will show how the blockchain will shape the next era of prosperity in finance, business, healthcare, education, governance, and many other fields.
About the authors:
Don Tapscott is the CEO of the Tapscott Group and one of the most influential living theorists about business and society. In November 2013, Thinkers 50 named him the 4th most important business thinker in the world. A June 2013 Forbes.com analysis of social media identified him as the most influential management thinker in the world. He is the author or co-author of 15 widely read books about new technologies and new media, including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy.
Alex Tapscott is a chartered financial analyst, working in New York and Toronto as vice president of institutional equities, at the investment bank Canaccord Genuity. He is on the faculty of the Global Solutions Network Program conducted by the Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is author of the book, Towards the Breaking Point: The Law and Political Emergency.
Both authors live in Toronto.
The Trust Protocol: How Blockchain Technology is Changing Money, Business and the World
Coming from Portfolio in April 2016
The Portfolio imprint of Penguin Random House has acquired world rights to The Trust Protocol: How Blockchain Technology is Changing Money, Business and the World by Don Tapscott, the bestselling author of Wikinomics, and his son Alex Tapscott. This will be the first book to explain why blockchain technology – a truly open, distributed, global platform – will fundamentally change what we can achieve online, how we do it, and who can participate.
Literary agent Wesley Neff at Leighco Inc. negotiated a three-way deal with Adrian Zackheim at Portfolio US, Andrea Magyar at Portfolio Canada, and Joel Rickett at Portfolio UK. Simultaneous publication in all three countries is expected in April 2016.
Over the past thirty years, no theorist of the digital age has better explained the next big thing than Don Tapscott. In Wikinomics (2006) he was the first to show how the Internet provides the first global platform for mass collaboration. Now he writes about a profound technological shift that will change how the world does business – and everything else – using blockchain technology, which powers the digital currency Bitcoin.
The Internet as we know it is great for collaboration and communication, but deeply flawed when it comes to commerce and privacy. The new blockchain technology facilitates peer-to-peer transactions without any intermediary such as a bank or governing body. Keeping the user’s information anonymous, the blockchain validates and keeps a permanent public record of all transactions. This means that personal information is private and secure, while all activity is transparent and incorruptible – reconciled by mass collaboration and stored in code on a digital ledger. In other words we won’t need to trust each other in the traditional sense, because trust is built into the system itself.
Bitcoin is only one application for this great innovation in computer science. The blockchain can hold any legal document, from deeds and marriage licenses to educational degrees and birth certificates. Tapscott calls it “the World Wide Ledger.” It enables smart contracts, decentralized autonomous organizations, decentralized government services, and transactions among things.
The forthcoming book will show how the blockchain will shape the next era of prosperity in finance, business, healthcare, education, governance, and many other fields.
About the authors:
Don Tapscott is the CEO of the Tapscott Group and one of the most influential living theorists about business and society. In November 2013, Thinkers 50 named him the 4th most important business thinker in the world. A June 2013 Forbes.com analysis of social media identified him as the most influential management thinker in the world. He is the author or co-author of 15 widely read books about new technologies and new media, including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy.
Alex Tapscott is a chartered financial analyst, working in New York and Toronto as vice president of institutional equities, at the investment bank Canaccord Genuity. He is on the faculty of the Global Solutions Network Program conducted by the Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is author of the book, Towards the Breaking Point: The Law and Political Emergency.
Both authors live in Toronto.
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