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the challenge of the 21st century isn't entrepreneurial as much as it is creative: learning to create fundamentally better stuff in the first place.

Awesome stuff is produced ethically — in fact, without an ethical component, awesomeness isn't possible.

allows businesses to profit by doing something that is tangential to their core mission

The thing that makes business development fascinating is that the best deals have never been done before.

This might be the most subtle yet important shift that marketers face as they deal with the reality of new media. Marketers aren't renters, now they own.

This might be the most subtle yet important shift that marketers face as they deal with the reality of new media. Marketers aren't renters, now they own.

Responsiveness depends on institutions. But institutions are a notoriously slippery concept, and it's sometimes difficult to know they begin and end. Let's firm them up, using a scorecard we've developed at the Lab. The scorecard should help make it crystal clear when we're reinventing of the four fundamental kinds of institutions. We use it to see and help decision-makers see who is seeding, growing, and nurturing responsiveness - and you can do the same.

Who can develop better kinds of ownership that create value for everyone? Advantage will flow inexorably to those economies - and companies - who can.