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…often stalls are not caused by the entrance of a bold new competitor or a disruptive innovation… but by chronic failures on the part of companies to closely monitor customer satisfaction and to zealously look for early warning signs of disaffection.
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267 |
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When it comes to… endeavors that depend heavily on rule-based logic, calculation, and sequential thinking – comptuers are simply better, faster, and stronger.
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043 |
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We must perform work that overseas knowledge workers can’t do cheaper, that computers can’t do faster, and that satisfies the aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual demands of a prosperous time.
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061 |
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A culture that settles for numb distraction cannot shape its future.
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The physical and virtual worlds are always with us, singing a siren song of connection, distraction, and options.
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063 |
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If we pause, we can begin to see that the land of distraction is a topography of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment.
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122 |
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In this land of distraction, we begin to rely on fragments, snippets, and push-button answers, and that is not a step forward. That is the beginning of a cultural decline.
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By choosing surveillance-based attention, we are ushering in an age of mistrust. This is the first collective loss we will suffer by cultivating a culture of distraction.
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129 |
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In an age of virtual, mobile, split-focus distraction, the book is a link both to body and spirit.
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…self-controlled students manage their efforts at learning not only by suppressing distractions but by constantly evaluating their own thought and progress.
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