And to start with I would focus on five of these killer apps that have immediate application to governing today: {1} the ability to adapt when confronted by strangers with superior economic and military might without being hobbled by humiliation; {2} the ability to embrace diversity; {3} the ability to assume ownership over the future and one's own problems; {4} the ability to get the balance right between the federal and the local-that is, to understand that a healthy society, like a healthy tropical forest, is a network of healthy ecosystems on top of ecosystems, each thriving on its own but nourished by the whole; and, maybe most important, {5} the ability to approach politics and problem-solving in the age of accelerations with a mind-set that is entrepreneurial, hybrid, and heterodox and nondogmatic-mixing and coevolving any ideas or ideologies that will create resilience and propulsion, no matter whose "side" they come from. Of
( Thomas L. Friedman )
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