Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini If we continue to assume that some people are intelligent or creative, while most are not, and continue to see intelligence and creativity as fixed, personal possessions, the options for the needed large-scale systemic changes will be few. Belief systems are contagious. If, over an extended period of time, people […]
How to Destroy Neoliberalism: Kill ‘Homo Economicus’
Debunking the failed paradigm of traditional economics. This piece is adapted from a speech delivered September 30th at MIT, where Nick Hanauer won the 2018 Harvard and MIT Humanist of the Year award. I’m thrilled to receive this award from such distinguished hosts—but I won’t lie: When I was told I would be honored as […]
TThe Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life’s Greatest Dilemmas
The design principles for solving the tragedy of the commons can be applied to all groups As an evolutionary biologist who received my PhD in 1975, I grew up with Garrett Hardin’s essay “The Tragedy of the Commons,” published in Science magazine in 1968. His parable of villagers adding too many cows to their common pasture captured […]
Would Twitter Ruin Bee Democracy?
Simple-majority democracy is used by many animals. But they don’t have social media. Did the ancient Athenians invent democracy? Or did bugs have it way earlier than the Greeks? Cornell entomologist Tom Seeley knows which option he’s voting for. Honeybees regularly split from their mother colony. Seeley wondered, with tens of thousands of bees in […]
Scott Galloway – The Four – What To Do
Galloways’ insights are fundamental and point to a profound tipping point in the economy of the digital environment. The digital environment – is essentially the general purpose platform for costless coordination. In a McLuhanesque phrase – if the digital environment is the medium – the message is social computing – the programmable economy. Worth more than $2.3 […]