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Don Tapscott (born June 1, 1947) is a Canadian author and business strategist, widely known as the "Father of the Digital Economy." He is renowned for his work on the impact of digital technology on society, business, and government, authoring bestsellers like "The Digital Economy" and "Wikinomics." Tapscott is an early advocate of blockchain technology, co-authoring "Blockchain Revolution." He co-founded the Tapscott Group and advises various institutions. His works have been translated into multiple languages, influencing global thought on innovation and collaboration.

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“Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow”

Book:Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

Source: Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

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

Needs Plans Commit Lifelong Exploding Lifelong Learning

Author:Don Tapscott

“The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.”

Thinking World Way Children Play Social Wealth Our Children Raises Transforming

Book:The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

Source: The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

“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.”

Should Trying Reason Fun Pay Balance Satisfying Enjoyable Work Life Balance Life Balance Work And Life Balance

Author:Don Tapscott

“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.”

Ifs Community Company Including Customers Partners Employee Multiple Stakeholder Business Partners

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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.”

World Needs Country Government Age Values Failing One Thing Air Succeed Organization Glasses Islands Agency Linked Shareholders Stakeholder Government Agencies Business Organization

Author:Don Tapscott

“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.”

People Giving Different Internet Discovery Bases Presses Access Printing Printing Press

Author:Don Tapscott

“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.”

Age Democracy Offers Capitalism Weak Active Digital Representatives Citizenship Mandates Digital Age Deliberation Citizenry Active Citizenship

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“Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.”

World Lost Leader Economy Institutions Divided Unstable Global Economy World Economy Lost Trust

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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.”

Way Looks Leader Happenings Institutions Extraordinary Initiative Sparkling

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“The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.”

People World Play Issues Institutions Complexes Corporations Blanket Assertion Business World

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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.”

Reason Courses Danger Fields Losing Threat University Visible Online Professors Monopoly

Author:Don Tapscott

“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.”

People World Whole Young Mother Company Generations Creating Invention Recovery Around The World Jobless New Company Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

Author:Don Tapscott

“We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.”

Humans Running Age Institutions Conclusion Gas Logical Human History Punctuation

Author:Don Tapscott

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

Book:Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

Source: Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

“Schools should be places to learn, not to teach.”

Should School Teach

Book:Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World

Source: Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World

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

Teacher Internet Fountain

Book:Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World

Source: Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World

“Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing.”

World Failing Succeed Stakeholder

Book:Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet

Source: Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet

“Those who grew up digital have different brains.”

Different Brain Grew Grew Up Digital

Author:Don Tapscott

“When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, 'My children are prodigies!' But then I noticed all their friends were like them, so that was a bad theory.”

Firsts Children Use Able My Own Technology Theory My Children Sophisticated Prodigies

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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.”

Kids Technology Generations Currents No Fear Refrigerators Have No Fear Current Generation

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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.”

Age Technology Information Promise Information Age

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“Your network is your filter.”

Marketing Filters

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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.”

Order Technology Protect Models Marketing Internals Allowing Engines Reserves Business Models Holding Back Veto Combustion Blacksmiths Horseshoes

Author:Don Tapscott

“All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.”

Needs Business Creativity Economy Computer Connections Social Media Sparks Initiative Social Networking Social Network Social Media Marketing Digital Media

Book:Wikinomics

Source: Wikinomics

“Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.”

Government Internet Cost Rebellion Collaboration Dissent Transactions Insurrection

Author:Don Tapscott

“You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.”

People Thinking Inspiration Kids Motivation Social Media Military Revolution Tools Social Media Online Murderer Unarmed

Author:Don Tapscott

“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.”

Ifs Becoming Institutions Naked Optional

Author:Don Tapscott

“Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.”

Self Certain Style Succeed Tasks Organization Management Productions

Book:Wikinomics

Source: Wikinomics

“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.”

Humans Running Age Wealth Century Corporations Gas 20th Century Human History Integrated Turning Points

Author:Don Tapscott

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

Needs Economy Successful Organization Firm Being Successful Knowledge And Information Learning Organization

Book:The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

Source: The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

“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.”

Way Long Important Problem Spirit Economy Our Lives Innovation Institutions Collaboration Problem Solving Long Life Effectiveness Better Ways Project Management

Author:Don Tapscott

“Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.”

Values Generations Design Wherever You Are

Author:Don Tapscott

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Born: June 1, 1947
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