Lollapalooza means something outstanding of its kind.
Seth Godin challenged 70 'big thinkers' to come up with big or small ideas that will matter in 2010. Each page of the delightful
PDF file begins with one word and a concise essay.
I have gleaned a quote from each person and provided a link. I thought I would combine my previous
four posts:
1, 2, 3, 4. on this subject into one end of the year lollapalooza. 2010 is all about
Heart/Mind/Vision/Connection:
'Big thoughts and small actions make a difference. Here's what we're working on and thinking about. Things to think about and do this year (2010). What about you?'-
Generosity: If you make a difference, you also make a connection. ~Seth Godin
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Fear plays the role of antagonist...make the decision to be courageous. ~
Anne Jackson-
Facts: accepted as fact, practised by people, ubiquitous in effect, must be questioned. ~
Jessica Hagy-
Dignity: Giving a poor person food or money might help them survive another day...but it doesn't give them dignity. There's a better way. ~
Jacqueline Novogratz-
Meaning: Sing in your own voice...Write from the heart...Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb. ~
Hugh MacLeod-
Ease: We are the strivingest people who have ever lived. We are ambitious, time-starved, competitive, distracted. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
Eat, Pray, Love-
Connected: More megaphones don't equal a better dialogue. We've become slaves to our mobile devices and the glow of our screens. ~
Howard Mann-
Re-capitalism: Business will learn to profit from giving value away. They will prefer collaboration to competition. ~
Chris Meyer-
Vision: Great leadership makes all the difference...it is about reminding people of what it is we are trying to build - and why it matters. ~
Michael Hyatt-
Enrichment: You are only as rich as the enrichment you bring to the world around you. ~
Rajesh Setty-
1%: The One Percenters are often hidden in the crevices of niches, yet they are the roots of word of mouth. This year, your job is to find them and attract them. ~
Jackie Huba, Ben McConnell-
Speaking: People at events are hungry for authenticity...Be honest, be authentic, and speak from your passion. ~
Mark Hurst-
Atoms: The collective potential of a million garage tinkerers is now about to be unleashed on the global markets. ~
Chris Anderson-
Excellence: The 19 E's - enthusiasm, exuberance, execution, empowerment, edginess, enraged, engaged...~
Tom Peters-
Most: You have to be the most of something: the most elegant, colourful, responsive, accessible. ~
William Taylor-
Strengths: I love my strengths. I'll work on them till the purple cows come home...Women are rather UNlike men and often approach problems and opportunities with a different outlook...Wouldn't it make more sense for both men and women to appreciate each others' strengths so we all work on what comes naturally? ~
Marti Barletta-
Ripple: I dream of a world...with thousands of new schools. Tens of thousands of new libraries. Each with equal access for all children. ~
John Wood-
Unsustainability: Unsustainable failed educational systems, obesity producing systems, energy systems, transportation systems, health care systems...The road to sustainability goes through a clear eyed look at unsustainability. ~
Alan M. Webber-
Autonomy: We have to make sure people have autonomy over the four most important aspects of their work: task, time, technique, team. After a decade of truly spectacular underachievement, what we need now is less management and more freedom...~
Daniel H. Pink-
Poker: Everything I know I learned from poker: financials, strategy, education, and culture. ~
Tony Hsieh-
Momentum: Whether it is brands or wealth building, I call it the Momentum Theorem...FOCUSED INTENSITY over TIME multiplied by GOD equals Unstoppable Momentum. ~
Dave Ramsey-
Consequence: We will put aside old ideas of what is good and bad for the environment and ourselves, and will quantitatively make the changes we need with new foresight. ~
Saul Griffith-
Power: Stop waiting around for bosses and companies to get better and complaining about how you are treated. Build the skills - and use them - that will permit you to create the environment in which you want to live. ~
Jeffrey Pfeffer-
Harmony is a springboard. It supports teamwork, creates energy, an energy that fuels creativity. ~
Jack Covert-
Tough-Mindedness: What produces real work is depth, focus, concentration, and commitment over time. ~
Steven Pressfield-
Evangelism: The future belongs to people who can spread ideas. ~
Guy Kawasaki-
Compassion: Business is missing one important core value: compassion. ~
Mitch Joel-
Knowledge: By investing aggressively...in the future of knowledge media...we can ensure that people get the fullest global perspective. ~
Alisa Miller-
Parsing: Most of the data exists and what doesn't we need to demand. The answer...lies not in rhetoric, but in our data...That's parsing I can believe in. ~
Clay Johnson-
Forever: When our great grandchildren finally work out how to solve the selfish errors of our time, we will be considered primitive: our balance with our habitat ignored in pursuit of progress...Yes, the future will have smaller markets but tomorrow's leaders will be the first ones to build markets that have a focus on forever. ~
Piers Fawkes-
Empathy: We have it in our power to begin the world again by implementing the Golden Rule. ~
Karen Armstrong-
Neoteny is the retention of childlike attributes in adulthood...It's time we listen to children and allow neoteny to guide us beyond the rigid framework and dogma created by adults. ~
Joichi Ito-
Celebrate: It's about business making up their mind to have an ongoing relationship with you, to invent fun ways to delight you, and mostly about following through in a way you'll tell your friends about. ~
Megan Casey, Editor in Chief Squidoo
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DIY: Do it yourself. Most doctors prescribe pills. I prescribe empowerment. ~
Jay Parkinson-
Adventure: Resolve to leave the screens of your virtual world momentarily behind and indulge your senses with a real world adventure. ~
Robyn Waters-
Dumb: What's hard is recognizing that the idea you think is just plain dumb is really tomorrow's huge breakthrough. ~
Dave Balser-
Nobody: Never forget, a small group of people can change the world. ~
Micah Sifry-
Analog: Analog computing, once believed to be extinct as the differential analyzer, has returned. ~
George Dyson-
Independent Diplomacy: I founded Independent Diplomacy to help small countries and political groups engage with and understand the previously closed world of international diplomacy. ~
Carne Ross-
THNX: Every CEO and business must recognize that customer service is now their primary business...The empowerment of the individual consumer affects every brand...I believe the thank you economy will become the norm in 2010 and beyond, and brands that fail to adjust will be left out in the cold. ~
Gary Vaynerchuk-
Attention: You can buy attention...or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and publishing it online for free: a You Tube video, a blog, a research stream, an ebook...This effort is well worth your time. ~
David Meerman Scott-
Context: Information in context makes smart systems smarter. ~
Jeff Jones-
Change: Stop agonizing about what's not working. Instead, ask yourself, 'what's working well, right now, and how can I do more of it?' ~
Chip,Dan Heath-
Passion: You grow and thrive by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by tring to find your passion. ~
Derek Sivers-
Magnetize: Markets can unleash people's creativity, guide entrepreneurs, and catalyze innovation. By harnessing markets to protect the environment, we can align human aspirations with planetary needs and save ourselves from ourselves. ~
Fred Krupp-
Confidence: The secret to unbreakable confidence is a lifestyle of emotional/mental diet and exercise. ~
Tim Sanders-
Slow Capital is patient capital. It takes the time to understand the company and the people who make it up. ~
Fred Wilson-
Open-Source DNA: Great benefits will accrue to those who are willing to share their genome...Genes are not destiny; they are our common wealth. ~
Kevin Kelly-
Technology: Instead of simply using technology to supplant us for the things we're not so good at, humanist design lets us do what we do best; it lets humans be humans. ~
Phoebe Espiritu-
Expertise is typically over-rated. Sometimes you have to rely on feedback to grow. ~
Aaron Wall-
Fascination: The next time you become captivated by a person, brand, or idea without even realizing it, you're most likely under the influence of the fascination triggers. ~
Sally Hogshead-
Difference:Much of what we want to understand is too big, complex, and arguable to ever be settled...The challenge now is to learn how to evaluate, incorporate, respect, and learn from our hyperlinked world. If we listen only to those who are like us, we will squander the great opportunity before us: to live together peacefully in a world of unresolved differences. ~
David Weinberger-
World-Healers: We need modern shamans to channel ancient 'technologies of magic' like empathy, creativity, art, and spiritual connection, through 'magical technologies like medicine, computers, and satellites. That marriage of ancient and cutting edge genius can heal hearts, minds, beasts, plants, ecosystems - almost anything. ~ Martha Beck, PhD, writer Oprah magazine
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Sacrifice: A winning business understands that to gain a customer it must first be willing to lose a customer. ~
John Moore--
Focus: In seeing the pixels that make the picture, focus can become a form of inquiry. We notice things we missed. New connections appear. The questions change. Meanings change. ~
Todd Sattersten-
Leap: Show don't tell. To write fiction and to have faith is to take an imaginative leap. ~
C. H. Adichie-
Women: If you're a man running a business, and if the power and influence females wield hasn't completely registered on your radar, well, then, what we've got here is a failure to communicate. ~
Paco Underhill-
Timeless: Here are three timeless principles of good cause-related communication that will be as important in ten years as they are today: heart, simplicity, and story. ~
Mark Rovner-
.eDo: We are seeing a DIY approach to education that focuses not on where we learn but how we learn. ~
Dale Doughberry-
Productivity: Don't worry too much about getting things done. Make things happen. ~
Gina Trapani-
Iterative Capital is the best currency in the world for rapidly researching, developing, and evolving ideas into innovation. ~
Michael Schrage-
Willpower: Can you help design the right defaults to help people in prosocial ways? ~
Ramit Sethi-
Mesh: People are realizing that some things are truly best shared. The Mesh is a movement that is taking place all around us and will grow, reform and spread to engage many more of us. ~
Lisa Gansky-
Enough: How do you know when you've had enough? ~
Merlin Mann-
(Dis)Trust: ...we must get a handle on how deep conflicts of interests run so that we can eliminate them. ~
Dan Ariely-
Social Skills: What's important is to be kind and gracious and do it in ways that make people want to do that for someone else. ~
Penelope Trunk-
I'm Sorry: Mistakes happen. How you apologize matters. Don't bullshit people - just say I'm sorry and mean it. ~
Jason Fried-
Sleep: America needs to get some sleep...I've learned to unplug and recharge. To trade mult-tasking for unitasking and occasionally no tasking. ~Arianna Huffington, Editor in chief Huffington Post
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Knowing: 'Who Cares' knowledge + great presentation=WOO HOO! ~Dan Roam, author The Back of the Napkin
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Government 2.0: How does government become an open platform that allows people inside and outside government to provide better services to each other? ~
Tim O'Reilly-
CAN: More people will tell you can't than you can. Don't listen. Anything's Possible. ~
Aimee Johnson-
Gumption: Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. ~
J. C. HutchinsAny thoughts about these key thinkers and their ideas about the new year and decade before us?
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Generosity: If you make a difference, you also make a connection. ~Seth Godin
Change: Stop agonizing about what's not working. Instead, ask yourself, 'what's working well, right now, and how can I do more of it?' ~Chip, Dan Heath
Ripple: I dream of a world...with thousands of new schools. Tens of thousands of new libraries. Each with equal access for all children. ~ John Wood
Social Skills: What's important is to be kind and gracious and do it in ways that make people want to do that for someone else. ~ Penelope Trunk
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