The Coming Prosperity
“Philip Auerswald shows the role that innovators must play if we are to create ‘The Coming Prosperity.’ In this important book, he reminds us that challenging the status quo is the inescapable first...
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The Starting Gun of the (Modern) Race Against the Machine
MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee were on 60 Minutes yesterday discussing their book Race Against the Machine, which describes how computers (in particular, robots & digitally enabled technologies) are increasingly displacing...
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Techno-pessimists: Wrong in the 1930s, Wrong Today
This week’s issue of The Economist contains an article assessing recent claims by Tyler Cowen, Robert Gordon, Peter Thiel and others that we have entered an age of diminished innovation and declining economic prosperity. Here’s axcerpt...
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Don’t Just Create a Product. Create a Movement.
I’ve got a post up as of today on the Harvard Business Review blog. Here’s how it starts: As the editor of the journal Innovations, I’m asked with some regularity, “So, what is innovation anyhow?...
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They’ve all come / To look for America
In the summer of 1990 I taught English at a technical college in the then-Czechoslovakia, newly liberated from Communism. The design of the course was intensive–30 hours of conversational English with the same...
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How The World Gets Ahead (Wall Street Journal Review of The Coming Prosperity)
It was great to see The Coming Prosperity featured this weekend in the Wall Street Journal‘s Spring book review section, along with Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma (head of emerging markets for Morgan Stanley) and Need, Speed,...
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Enough with the Icebergs Already
“If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.” – Norman Augustine Look around you and you will...
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Kids Today
OK, this video is already viral. But I Tweeted it a couple of days ago and I want in on the fun. If you haven’t seen Caine’s Arcade, do yourself a favor and...
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In Praise of Punctuality (… or Why I’m Not an Optimist)
We’ll, I can’t say I didn’t ask for it. When you title your book The Coming Prosperity, you can expect to be called an “optimist” at minimum–even “Dr. Boom” or the “Permabull.” You...
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The Coming Prosperity—Reviews and Media
Reviews “How the World Gets Ahead,” Matthew Rees, The Wall Street Journal The Coming Prosperity is filled with vivid profiles of men and women who have succeeded under harsh conditions…But The Coming Prosperity...
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Introduction to the The Coming Prosperity
Here’s how The Coming Prosperity begins… This is a book about the unparalleled possibilities of now.
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