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I'm honored to be a contributing author to the 2011 best-selling business book, A Guide to Open Innovation & Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, along with some of my innovation colleagues from #Innochat (Twitter Innovation chat and web site); edited by Paul Sloane, with a foreword by Henry Chesbrough. You can order it here: http://amzn.to/OI_CS
I co-wrote the chapter, "Building the Culture for Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing," with Gwen Ishmael and Boris Pluskowski — more information about all of the co-authors and the contents of this book at: http://bit.ly/OI_CS_Google

May 29

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The average Joe, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, believes down deep that only the fittest survive. “Social Darwinism” has been interwoven in our thoughts, our identity, and our nation for 150 years. In fact the notion is wrong, and now it has been scientifically superceded. With it, we’ve lost two excuses: that vicious competition is natural and acceptable; and that greed in our “free market capitalism” is natural and must not be regulated. The opposite is true — our neurons are aroused by altruism, which a fundamental force. It modulates our competitive impulses. Altruism fostered the formation of our social groups and allows our species to exist.

I think there has been a paradigmatic shift in our thinking away from vicious competition towards altruism, and this has been altering all human behavior, our nation, and our world. Altruism, in biological context, is not wimpy optimism or political posturing. Rather, it drives the computing power of the brain in each of us. Although it may sound absurd, violence in our species is decreasing.

Scientists in biology, entomology, psychology, political science, and in the humanities have discovered we are altruistic just like a colony of ants and a hive of bees. Massive literature has accumulated over the last decades and confirms that forms of altruism are literally in our cells and are reflected in our personal and societal behavior.

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From HuffingtonPost.com — Why Altruism Is Forcing Out Corporate Power

By Paul Schwartzman