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July 8, 2005

They Get It

Tom Peters and Marshall Goldsmith get it. Linus Torvalds and Tim Berners-Lee get it too. What they get is the understanding that we do not live in a world where value is derived by the scarcity of the product but rather the abundance. Open Source and 10 millionth download of FireFox remind us what the internet is and should continue to be. Free of obstructions from corporations and governments. That sharing information so that everyone benefits is really the secret of the coming business environment. Unfortunately, many of our organizations still dont understand the new equation of success. Bill Gates once commented that in the Gold Rush, the majority of the riches was made by the people that sold blue jeans, pick axes, and maps. In fact, I believe that the man that first discovered Gold in California dies dirt poor due to conflicts of land ownership

Posted by Todd at July 8, 2005 2:58 PM