posted 05-31-1999 12:53 PM               

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The gist of what a nanocorp is and how it operates in the world can be captured in quotes from the Really Important Books and Stuff (RIBS) on this site. This topic will present specific quotes from the RIBs only please that encapsulate, typify, define and describe the essential elements of what we are about.

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posted 05-31-1999 01:28 PM               

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". . .society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking."

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller

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posted 05-31-1999 02:35 PM               

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"Underlying the advocacy of the climb up the corporate ladder is the concept that what others think of you is more important than what you think of yourself, and that the only rung that's worthwhile is the top one.

Implicit in the promotion of buying on credit is the belief that something earned is no more valuable than something simply acquired.

Urging full and early retirement is tantamount to saying work is a curse to be avoided if at all possible.

And pushing for estate creation and the transfer of wealth through inheritance is based on the belief that money is the most important thing you could leave your children."

Die Broke: A Radical, Four-part Financial Plan
Stephen Pollan and Mark Levine

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posted 07-05-1999 06:05 PM               

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" 'I cannot imagine not doing this.' 'I'd pay them to let me do this.' 'I get so engrossed I don't know where the time goes.'

These are all attitudes of people who have resolved the work/play split; for them there is no difference between their life's work and a recreational pursuit. In part, this attitude stems from their keen involvement with their work. They also feel this way since their attention is not divided between thoughts of what they are doing and what they would rather be doing."

Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood
Marsha Sinetar

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posted 07-11-1999 05:58 PM               

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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller

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posted 10-11-1999 12:18 AM               

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The job concept emerged early in the nineteenth century to package the work that needed doing in the growing factories and bureaucracies of the industrializing nations. Before people had jobs, they worked just as hard but on shifting clusters of tasks, in a variety of locations, on a schedule set by the sun, the weather, and the needs of the day. The modern job was a startling new idea -- to many people, an unpleasant and even socially dangerous one.

Jobshift: How to Prosper in a Workplace without Jobs
William Bridges

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posted 02-20-2000 10:29 AM               

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Being a jerk, a blowhard, or a patient, sweet-tempered soul is frequently irrelevant to the quality of collaboration. The thing that matters most is that the collaborators possess a modicum of mutual trust, the belief that they are each adding value, and a genuine desire to solve the problem at hand or create something new.

No More Teams: Mastering the Dynamics of Creative Collaboration
Michael Schrage

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posted 12-13-2000 01:16 PM               

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"The growing importance of ideas in the commercial sphere conjures a troubling specter. When human thought becomes such an important commodity, what happens to ideas that, while important may not be commercially attractive? Is there any room left for noncommercial views, opinions, notions, and concepts in a civilization where people rely increasingly on the commercial sphere for ideas by which to live their lives? In a society in which all kinds of ideas are locked up in the form of intellectual property controlled by megacorporations, what is likely to be the effect on our collective consciousness and the future of social discourse?" (pg. 55)

The Age of Access
by Jeremy Rifkin

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