The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy

For individuals, companies, and nations alike, it’s time to be what matters.

if anything is more naïve than an unquestioning belief in the transformative power of entrepreneurs, it is an unquestioning belief in the power of national governments, international organizations, and multinational corporations to address complex twenty-first-century challenges.

Businessmen driven by lust for money, zealots driven by lust for power, and politicians driven by, well, all three medieval lusts, have, over the intervening centuries, proven fully capable of self-destruction— quite contrary to Enlightenment suppositions.

That was understandable because, for the bulk of the twentieth century, basic research and big business were the primary vehicles of economic growth and prosperity.

Between 1995 and 2002 we in the US lost two million manufacturing jobs. China during the same time period? They lost fifteen million.)

“Baby Boomers are more idealistic, loyal to their companies. Gen X are more pragmatic, loyal to their career. Gen Y are more spontaneous, loyal to

First journalists and accountants, then X-ray technicians, artists, and photographers, among many others, have undergone the disconcerting experience of watching old market structures that previously would have guaranteed lifelong livelihoods crumble before their eyes.

The empty hand is the gap between idea and reality, between motion and action. It is the cognitive space for the truly unexpected. It is the habit and practice of creative preparedness. It is the boundary between order and adaptability. And, when put into use, and yet at the same time kept empty, it is entrepreneurship.

the mobile revolution is not, in reality, just a story of gadget proliferation.