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Yeah! We're number 15.
Our average internet speeds here in the US is 15 times slower than the number 1 nation: Japan.
Our average cost per month for each Mbps is....14 times more expensive!
Yes!
15 times slower to connect and collaborate and communicate.
14 times more expensive to do the same.
Guess whose ideas will come to market faster, sooner, cheaper?
Guess whose economy will create more jobs in the future?
Now, of course it's not that simple.
On the other hand, Japan's unemployment rate was 5%. And ours? Link
And, then, there's GDP and Population and GDP Per Capita.
Who wins in the Idea economy or the Creative Economy?
Who wins in a global economy where anything can be instantly copied?
- The companies, the nations, that can share ideas the fastest and the cheapest.
- Those who are most efficient at bringing ideas to the market, one after the other.
- Those who are most skilled in collaborating, creating and communicating.
This infrastructure is one of the keys.
It's they key to maximizing the potential of your organization or your country as described in The Power of Pull: How Small Moves Smartly Made Can Set Big Things in Motion.
It is a key to creating a culture of learning that creates a culture of leaders. If the pace of your idea exchange is slower and fewer than your competition...
- who leads your market, your industry?
- who attracts the top talent?
- who has a sustainable business?
- who eats your lunch AND takes your lunch money?
What's in it for you?
Ideas. That's what. Ideas that bring solutions. Solutions that create engaged employees and evangelistic customers and new markets and more revenues and lower costs.
How many ideas and solutions does your company have...stagnating, never to see the light of execution, because you have made it too expensive to connect. Too expensive and too slow.
We're not talking about your coaxial cables or even the speed of your desktops. Those do play a key role, though.
We're talking about how how many obstacles have you built that impede the free-flow and discussion of ideas and solutions?
- Do you encourage ideas to be shared?
- Do you let people pursue an idea?
- Do you freely share data?
- How do you handle failure?
At the end of the day, the speeds with which we share ideas is the speeds with which we build engagement. And engagement....is the mark of a sustainable business.
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