38 Geoff Mulgan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Geoff Mulgan

English Educator

Born: 1961

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Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Maria Montessori Michael Pollan Michael Porter Timothy Leary

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. Geoff Mulgan

Collective Narcissism Nationalism Kind Understood

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public. Geoff Mulgan

Government Good Responsibility Every Other System Lies Part Also Operate Governments Just Public Themselves Organisations Including Media Good Government

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism. Geoff Mulgan

Love Lost Whatever Rich Once Plenty Intrigue Moral Moral Compass Favour Steely Had Contain Powerful Most Biases Protect Governments May Themselves Who Cynicism Compass

Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges. Geoff Mulgan

Life Time Capitalism People Money Everyday Life Everyday Software Sectors Data Exchanges Part Taken Attention Mainstream Oil Where Fundamentally

Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. Geoff Mulgan

People Extraordinary Range Complex Beasts Economies Tasks Need

There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do to raise the status and rewards for what will soon be one of our most important industries. Geoff Mulgan

Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs. Geoff Mulgan

Good Immigration Jobs Economy Always

Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow. Geoff Mulgan

Health Sector Most Dominant Grow Societies Guaranteed

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services. Geoff Mulgan

Great Innovation Thrive Others Collaboration Ways Web Rather Crowdsource New Ideas Involving Doing Than New Ways Just Experiments Interest Social Them Users Many Using Hence Things Services Designing

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them. Geoff Mulgan

People Match Get Want Them Use Rid Who Groups Things

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education. Geoff Mulgan

Education Higher Education Higher Becoming Hub

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers. Geoff Mulgan

Innovate Teenagers Cities Obesity Simply Powers Cutting Radically Number Need

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices. Geoff Mulgan

Great Change Own Our Ability Park Attachment Habits Uncomfortable Dealing Climate Climate Change Shift Biggest Us Choices Ignore Hard Barrier

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do. Geoff Mulgan

Innovation Every Bit Through Advance Economies Much Societies

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions. Geoff Mulgan

Memories Culture Conflict Events Strong Simple Economics Resources Way Scarce More Small Simple Way Never Likely Identity Caused Passions Historical Any Inflame Where Conflicts

The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen. Geoff Mulgan

Technology People Too Many People Too Much Picture Action Complacency Too Pretty About Talk Make Make It Happen Empowerment Smug Mixed Passive Interactive Happen Little Far Much Connected Users Many Designed Technologies

Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them. Geoff Mulgan

Digital Teenagers Tools Web Write Consume Simply Feel Confident Them Create Skills Who Many Even Needed

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality. Geoff Mulgan

Reality Digital Become Other Rapidly Constantly Data Networks Bubbling Where Social Notion Social Networks Connected Streams Widespread

So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding. Geoff Mulgan

Future Time Chasing Picture Mouth Live Society Back Crises Minor Civil Rarely Civil Society New Look Most Juggling Perpetual Hand Contracts Get After Bigger Bigger Picture Short-Term Much Organisations Stand Many Even Prepared Treadmill Funding

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways. Geoff Mulgan

Creative Reality Sometimes Internet Virtual Virtual Reality Ways Dividing Clear Advances Between Becomes Line Very Blurred Notion Creative Ways Things

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments. Geoff Mulgan

Today Justice Learning Innovation World Problems Society Despite Distance Pressing Some Tackling Facing Over Fair Most Fair Trade Because Housing Trade Reduction Governments Urban Social Farming Help Growing Waste

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous. Geoff Mulgan

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