Recently Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd hosted an ideas summit where a 1000 or so people gathered to share ideas and to present recommendations for what Australia must do by 2020.
Like most of these kind of events there was something old, something borrowed and very little new. What could be new is that the ideas become reality. Creating a vision is noble, however turning the vision into reality is what is heroic. The more leaders talk and fail to act, the more skeptical and cynical followers become.
This Prime Minister is doing a lot of talking. He is also taking some action. He seems to be acutely aware that innovation of the scale we need in the new world we are building requires levels of cooperation and collaboration never before seen in history. I am hopeful that Mr Rudd, who has a lot of knockers because of his rhetoric, can do what most leaders don't, that is, match the talk with the walk.
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Ian
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“Everybody makes a difference. Everybody’s existence is linked to the common stranger …That was the basis on which I wanted to make Schlinder’s List: that we all matter, that we all count, that we make contributions even if we spend our own life never realising that we matter.”
These are powerful words. When we take them to heart and take action in our own way, we are being remarkable.
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