Don Tapscott: 7 Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries, INSEAD 2012

Don Tapscott's commencement address to INSEAD business school's graduating class in Fontainebleau, France on July 5, 2012.

We are at a turning point in human history and Don provides graduates with the unconventional wisdom needed to rebuild our broken world.


Learn more about Don Tapscott at http://dontapscott.com or follow Don at http://twitter.com/dtapscott


Don is one of the world's leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world. In 2011 Don was named one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50.

He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit The Digital Economy changed thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet and two years later he defined the Net Generation and the "digital divide" in Growing Up Digital. His 2000 work, Digital Capital, introduced seminal ideas like "the business web" and was described by BusinessWeek as "pure enlightenment." Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages. http://wikinomics.com

The Economist called his newest work Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet a "Schumpeterian story of creative destruction" and the Huffington Post said the book is "nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world." http://macrowikinomics.com

Over 30 years he has introduced many ground-breaking concepts that are part of contemporary understanding. His work continues as a the Chairman of Moxie Insight, a member of World Economic Forum, Adjunct Professor of Management for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and Martin Prosperity Institute Fellow.

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