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| 89a6e4e | The story also pointed out that most big cities and towns have chambers of commerce and economic development offices, but what makes Itasca unique, participants say, is a commitment to hard data and McKinsey-style analysis, as well as a willingness to depart from the script that drives many private sector lobbies. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 1e347c8 | The sudden and massive influx of refugees from Africa and the Middle East has overwhelmed the absorptive capacity of the European Union and triggered a populist-nationalist backlash, while also prompting the EU to start limiting its policy of free movement of people between countries. The June 2016 British vote to withdraw from the EU was driven in no small degree by anti-immigration sentiment. And | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 3303698 | By studying the pattern of footsteps, the farmers were able to gain early detection of eight different cow diseases, enabling early treatment and improving the overall health and longevity of the herd. "A little ingenuity can transform even the oldest of industries like farming," concluded Sirosh. If" -- | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 2f2d9e2 | The first line of defense for any society is always going to be its guardrails--laws, stoplights, police, courts, surveillance, the FBI, and basic rules of decency for communities like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. All of those are necessary, but they are not sufficient for the age of accelerations. Clearly, what is also needed--and is in the power of every parent, school principal, college president, and spiritual leader--is to think mor.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 15f8629 | Obama added, is "to see our growing interdependence as a cause for peaceful cooperation and not violent competition. To define our nations not by our capacity to destroy but by what we build. And perhaps, above all, we must reimagine our connection to one another as members of one human race." I" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 7a6d433 | Of course, the speed at which any society embraces these strategies will always be a product of the interplay between politics, culture, and leadership. Culture shapes a society's political responses, and its leadership and politics, in turn, shape culture. What exactly is culture? I like this concise definition offered by BusinessDictionary.com: culture is the "pattern of responses discovered, developed, or invented during the group's hist.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 84747ba | Tencent, and Alibaba, the flow of crowdfunding through Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe, | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 1dc8ced | Salesforce, | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| a963f90 | Beirut's enduring lesson for me was how thin is the veneer of civilization, how easily the ties that bind can unravel, how quickly a society that was known for generations as the Switzerland of the Middle East can break apart into a world of strangers. I have never looked at the world the same since I left Beirut. It was like catching a glimpse of the underside of a rock or the mess of wires and chips that are hidden inside a computer. Stev.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| e2c3960 | LinkedIn was barely known and most people thought it was a prison, | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 5af47ef | we cannot reverse these trends on our own; the will has to come from within these societies. But we can raise the odds that they will do it themselves by raising the number of people with the will to do so. What America and the West can do--and have not done nearly enough of--is to invest in and amplify the islands of decency and the engines of capacity-building in countries in, or bordering on, the World of Disorder. When we invest in the .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 476432a | Apple | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 9d6a6f7 | The Levantine political idea, which grew naturally among the communities of the eastern Mediterranean, was an original way of dealing with diverse tribal, village, and sectarian identities, and it inspired the Beirutis and ultimately the Lebanese to believe that they could build a modern Arab republic, melding together seventeen different Christian, Muslim, and Druse sects. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 2d8b4ba | In short, we have to face two fundamental facts about geopolitics today: Fact #1: The necessary is impossible. Fact #2: The impossible is necessary. That is, while we cannot repair the wide World of Disorder on our own, we also cannot just ignore it. It metastasizes in an interdependent world. If we don't visit the World of Disorder in the age of accelerations, it will visit us. This is especially true when you know that the age of accelera.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 3a34b18 | In the Cold War, Russia effectively occupied all of Eastern Europe, suppressing not only its freedoms but also its ethnic conflicts. For five centuries the Ottomans managed most of the Middle East in the same way. But today we live in a postimperial and a postcolonial world. No great power wants to occupy anybody. As we've seen, the major powers have all learned the hard way that when you occupy another country all that you win is a bill. I.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 8cf5ce8 | Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the NYU Stern School of Business, made the case for why in an essay in The American Interest on July 10, 2016, entitled "When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism." "Having a shared sense of identity, norms, and history generally promotes trust ... Societies with high trust, or high social capital, produce many beneficial outcomes for their citizens: lower crime rates, lower transaction costs for busi.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 8d64305 | The first and oldest of these traditions is tribe-like politics. I use the term "tribe-like" to refer to a pre-modern form of political interaction characterized by a harsh, survivalist quality and an adherence to certain intense primordial or kin-group forms of allegiance. Sometimes the tribe-like group that is in power in the Middle East, or is seeking power, is an actual tribe, sometimes it is a clan, members of a religious sect, a villa.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 5c7d56e | These alliances began with the most basic blood association--the family--and then expanded to the clan, the tribe, and then to other tribes. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| f5481f9 | NAZ was founded in 2008 in Minneapolis, and is modeled on Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone. It uses a holistic web of family coaches and tutors, combined with academic and wraparound support, for 1,100 families, to keep 2,300 children in an education pipeline from early childhood to college. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 50e4eba | We work with both parents and their children to make lasting progress. Supporting the entire family to succeed is critically important, because when parents provide stable homes, their children are able to focus on learning. We | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 96a6d5d | We also recognized that schools can't do it alone, so we surround students with a team that provides everything from extra academic opportunities, parent education, and early childhood services to behavioral health counseling, housing and career support. In partner schools where the supports are most layered for NAZ students, they are doing significantly better than their peers in reading. Samuels | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 0670ba0 | While their parents knew a different life and would never really feel at home again without it, their kids had never known anything else and would never really feel whole because of it. Over | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| cedfd89 | In 2011, the NASSCOM team introduced me to Aloke Bajpai, who, like others on his young team, cut his teeth working for Western technology companies but returned to India on a bet that he could start something--he just didn't know what. The result was Ixigo.com, a travel search service that can run on the cheapest cell phones and helps Indians book the lowest-cost fares, whether it is a farmer who wants to go by bus or train for a few rupees.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| d6d3379 | Social media is good for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building; good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction; fantastic for generating a flash mob, but not so good at generating a flash consensus on a party platform or a constitution. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 518dfe8 | So, at a minimum, our educational systems must be retooled to maximize these needed skills and attributes: strong fundamentals in writing, reading, coding, and math; creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration; grit, self-motivation, and lifelong learning habits; and entrepreneurship and improvisation--at every level. The | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 5a2252c | Successful students had one or more teachers who were mentors and took a real interest in their aspirations, and they had an internship related to what they were learning in school. The most engaged employees, said Busteed, consistently attributed their success in the workplace to having had a professor or professors "who cared about them as a person," or having had "a mentor who encouraged their goals and dreams," or" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| ca4ac6a | When I asked the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, "Is God in cyberspace?" he joked at first that God must be in cyberspace because every time he is in the London subway, "I hear people saying into their cell phones, 'Oh God, why doesn't this work!'" Here" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| a9e528b | observes the veteran international pollster Craig Charney, that while the Internet "improves the ability to connect, it is no substitute for political organizations, culture, or leadership--and spontaneous movements tend to be weakest in all of these." Many Arab Awakening efforts ultimately failed because they could not build an organization and politics that could translate their progressive ideas into a governing majority." | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 28409d6 | It costs about two thousand dollars just to hire someone, so our preference always is to use our internal employees. It is more cost-effective and will generate more employee engagement and productivity, which means employees will go the extra mile so customers will be served better and shareholder value will increase. The companies with the most highly engaged workforces earn three times those with less. But | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 055adb1 | so anyone can drill into anyone else's past with a few thumb clicks on a PalmPilot. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 3eaf19f | What all these stories have in common is that the algorithms were in charge--not people, not ethics, and certainly not God. What all of these stories also have in common is the fact that a number of technological forces came together to create an exponential step change in the power of men and machines--much faster than we have reshaped ourselves as human beings, much faster than we have been able to reshape our institutions, our laws, and .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 9a77595 | The problem was, they had no beds, but Gebbia did have three air mattresses. "So we inflated them and called ourselves 'Airbed and Breakfast.' Three people stayed with us, and we charged them eighty dollars a night. We also made breakfast for them and became their local guides," Chesky, thirty-four, explained. In the process, they made enough money to cover the rent. More important, though, they discovered a bigger idea that has since bloss.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 11ce27f | So Egypt, a country where nearly half the population lived on two dollars a day and at least 12 percent of the population, and far more young people, were unemployed, found itself suddenly competing in a world where a country half a world away could make its national icons into an ashtray or a honking-humped camel, ship them transcontinentally, and still make a profit more efficiently than Egyptians could. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| c1a20bd | best questions. "The world of the designer changes," explains Bass, "from the form maker to the person that creates the goals and the constraints of the object to be designed--[and that person] then no longer creates the designs, but selects the design from a landscape of possibilities. We're going from what was once a point solution to more of a collaboration [between man and machine], because with the computer's help, the designer is now .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 1861866 | Japan, a country that had done its best to have no contact with strangers and to seal out the rest of the world. Its economy and politics were dominated by feudal agriculture and a Confucian hierarchical social structure, and they were steadily declining. Merchants were the lowest social class, and trading with foreigners was actually forbidden except for limited contact with China and the Dutch. But then Japan had an unexpected encounter w.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 9e21060 | faster. As I was closing this book, Walmart announced that to upgrade its ability to compete in e-commerce with Amazon--which still does eight times Walmart's sales online--it was buying Jet, a year-old Internet retail startup. The Economist reported on August 13, 2016, that Jet's appeal to Walmart was its "real-time pricing algorithm, which tempts customers with lower prices if they add more items to their basket. The algorithm also identi.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 4691896 | Mother Nature is not a living being, but she is a biogeophysical, rationally functioning, complex system of oceans, atmosphere, forests, rivers, soils, plants, and animals that has evolved on Planet Earth since the first hints of life emerged. She has survived the worst of times and thrived in the best of them for nearly four billion years by learning to absorb endless shocks, climate changes, surprises, and even an asteroid or two. That al.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 8800f1d | For the same reason, added McKinsey, "products can go viral on a scale that has never been seen before. In 2015, Adele's song 'Hello' racked up fifty million views on YouTube in its first forty-eight hours, and her album 25 sold a record 3.38 million copies in the United States in its first week alone, more than any other album in history. In 2012, Michelle Obama wore a dress from British online fashion retailer ASOS in a photo that was re-.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 288a2d6 | Internet of Things Foundry" in Dallas, an innovation shop full of network engineers. They invited customers in with this proposition, explained Vice Chairman Ralph de la Vega: "Tell us what problem you want us to solve, and we commit that within two weeks we'll give you a prototype solution for you that works on a real live network ... Every time we do this, it results in a contract." So, for instance, the global shipping giant Maersk neede.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 975fe2f | Sometimes I felt that growing up and being a girl was about learning to be afraid. | Claire Messud | ||
| a87c865 | President Vladimir Putin has evolved a "hybrid foreign policy, a strategy that mixes normal diplomacy, military force, economic corruption and a high-tech information war." Indeed, on any given day, the United States has found itself dealing with everything from cyberattacks by Russian intelligence hackers on the computer systems of the U.S. Democratic Party, to disinformation about what Russian troops, dressed in civilian clothes, are doin.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 73c6fe5 | I asked him what he did. He said his name was John Lord and that he was in the software business. "What kind of software?" I asked. He said that his company's goal was to make "lawyers obsolete" wherever possible by creating software applications that enable individuals to do more and more legal work without the aid of an attorney. Indeed, Neota Logic, his company, says that its goal is to massively improve access to advice and justice for .. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 18b1ea3 | Our employee engagement surveys showed a 30 percent improvement in lost sick days in one year. People are calling in sick less because they are feeling more empowered, more of a sense of ownership, and more connected." Jump-Starting" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| b824da5 | Google released the basic algorithms for a program called TensorFlow for public consumption by the open-source community. TensorFlow is a set of algorithms that enable fast computers to do "deep learning" with big data sets to perform tasks better than a human brain. "By January 2016 we had a course online on how to use the TensorFlow open-source platform to write deep learning algorithms to teach a machine to do anything--copyediting, flyi.. | Thomas L. Friedman |