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It was during this time that I attended a seminar conducted by Dr Bonnie Bassler from Princeton University, where she talked about how bacteria cells communicate with each other, based on their population density, and perform a specific action.

My colleagues' action was not the only death threat I have received, but it was the most dangerous one.

And what about people who are able to look at the financials of your business, understand the story that the financials tell, and either take appropriate action or make appropriate recommendations?"

So how do we take this idea of the missing 33 percent and turn it into action?

So for some of you, the missing 33 percent is an idea for you to put into action, and I hope that for all of you, you will see it as an idea worth spreading in order to help organizations be more effective, to help women create careers that soar, and to help close the gender gap at the top.

So, this is her legacy, and I think that my call to action to all of you is: think about blogs, think about what they are, think about what you've thought of them, and then actually do it, because it's something that's really going to change our lives.

But in order to be part of this conversation, we need to know what we want to do next, because political action is being able to move from agitation to construction.

My call to action for new power is to not be an island.

There's no greater opportunity or call for action for us now than to become opportunity-makers who use best talents together more often for the greater good and accomplish things we couldn't have done on our own.

What I'm suggesting is, when you connect with people around a shared interest and action, you're accustomed to serendipitous things happening into the future, and I think that's what we're looking at.

And not only that, where's the flip chart with the action items and the follow-up and the accountability?

That's because warfare and humanitarian action are going to be concentrated in our cities, and the fight for development, whether you define that as eradicating poverty, universal healthcare, beating back climate change, will be won or lost in the shantytowns, slums and favelas of our cities.

We've heard extraordinary activities of civil society groups who are engaging in local and global collective action, and this is leading to digital protest and real revolution.

So I have a call to action for you.

There was no action scenes.

That action and the subsequent legal and political battle led to a landmark First Amendment decision that prevented the government from demanding patriotism be mandatory.

It requires courage, luck and also vision and boldness of action.

It's a narrative spread across a number of different disciplines, in which cooperation, collective action and complex interdependencies play a more important role.

I started thinking about the relationship between communication, media and collective action when I wrote "Smart Mobs," and I found that when I finished the book, I kept thinking about it.

And we don't know exactly how they did this, although they must have solved some collective action problems; it only makes sense that you can't hunt mastodons while you're fighting with the other groups.

And from literate populations, new forms of collective action emerged in the spheres of knowledge, religion and politics.

Not created by the printing press, but enabled by the collective action that emerges from literacy.

Now, when I started looking into collective action, the considerable literature on it is based on what sociologists call "social dilemmas."

They escape by creating institutions for collective action.

This is by far the largest contribution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, until today, as a positive action.

It is deeper, it is a process, it is acute awareness that we are all utterly inter-bended, and one action by one being in one tiny town has consequences everywhere.

So this is a democracy in action because there is a general body, a governing board, the committee.

And that is democracy at the grassroots level in action.

They'd been preparing for many years and decided it was time to swing into action after Rosa Parks was arrested.

They met right around that time, they agreed on common action and they put together an emergency joint operation center in Conakry to try and work together to finish this disease and get it stopped, to implement the strategies we talked about.

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