Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get … - Lester Thurow

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Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

Lester Thurow

Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done. . . The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.

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A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

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There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual. . . In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.

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The old foundations of success are gone. . . The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories. . . For the first time in history the world's wealthiest man owns only knowledge.

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Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.

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