Geoff Mulgan Quotes

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• All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

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  Narcissism, Kind, Understood

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2006.

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• The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

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  Art, Ideas, Doe

  Geoff Mulgan (2015). “The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future”, p.12, Princeton University Press

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• So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.

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  Hands, Looks, Mouths

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

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  Letting Go, Goodbye, Space

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• Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

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  Innovation, Economy, Bits

  "Extreme makeover" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2006.

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• The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

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  Attachment, Choices, Climate

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• All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

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  Zero, Distance, Government

  "Going global: social innovation" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

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• The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

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  Technology, People, Imagination

  "Credit where it's due" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2006.

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• The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

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  Cities, Innovation, Critical

  "Our creative minds need to be harnessed" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2008.

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• One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

  "Post-crash, investing in a better world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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• Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

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  Technology, Simple, People

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

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  Self, Cards, Credit

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• Spreading an idea is hard work.

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  Hard Work, Ideas, Hard

  "How to spread the word about radical ideas" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

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• The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.

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  Technology, People, Empowerment

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• Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

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  People, Tasks, Needs

  "The UK economy can still create jobs" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2012.

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• Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

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  Children, Cutting, Government

  "Happiness - and how to find it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

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  Powerful, Play, Drug

  "Happiness - and how to find it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

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  Majority, Favour, Finance

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

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  Fun, Discipline, Covering

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• By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.

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  Children, Party, Community

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• Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.

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  Style, Degrees, Campaigns

  "Civil Engineering". www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

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  Teenager, Writing, Skills

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• The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

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  Reality, Data, Fiction

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• The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.

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  Technology, Government, Cities

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• One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

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  People, Culture, Violence

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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