NLab: Amplified Individuals and Business Resilience we took a light-hearted look at our levels of amplification*. Here are the results!
It seems we feel most confident in our skills in multi-capitalism and longbroading. That's a pretty interesting combination! Now, how can we put it to best use....?
Mobbability: The capacity to be effective in large groups. A talent for organizing and collaborating with many people simultaneously.
- I’m confident I can do this - 5
- I usually do this well - 8
- I usually find this difficult - 0
- I’m not confident about doing this - 2
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Influency: The ability to be persuasive in multiple social contexts and media spaces -3, and to understand that each context and space requires a different persuasive strategy and technique.
- I’m confident I can do this - 3
- I usually do this well - 6
- I usually find this difficult - 3
- I’m not confident about doing this - 2
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Ping quotient: The capacity and propensity to reach out to others in a network, including being proactive in seeking engagement with other people, and responsive in turn to their approaches.
- I’m confident I can do this - 4
- I usually do this well - 7
- I usually find this difficult - 2
- I’m not confident about doing this - 0
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Protovation: The confidence to engage fearlessly in rapid, iterative cycles of innovation, such as rapid prototyping.
- I’m confident I can do this - 4
- I usually do this well - 5
- I usually find this difficult - 2
- I’m not confident about doing this - 1
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Open authorship: The skills of authoring and managing open and collaborative materials, as well as creating content for public consumption and modification.
- I’m confident I can do this - 3
- I usually do this well - 4
- I usually find this difficult - 5
- I’m not confident about doing this - 3
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Multi-capitalism: Fluency in working with different kinds of capital: natural, intellectual, social, and financial.
- I’m confident I can do this - 3
- I usually do this well - 10
- I usually find this difficult - 1
- I’m not confident about doing this - 0
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Longbroading: The ability to think in terms of higher level systems and cycles. The vision to see the big picture.
- I’m confident I can do this - 10
- I usually do this well - 3
- I usually find this difficult - 1
- I’m not confident about doing this - 0
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Signal to noise management: The capacity to filter and manage streams of information to obtain meaningful knowledge, patterns, and commonalities from massively-multiple streams of data.
- I’m confident I can do this - 6
- I usually do this well - 3
- I usually find this difficult - 5
- I’m not confident about doing this - 0
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Cooperation radar: The talent to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task. An aptitude for effective multidisciplinary collaboration.
- I’m confident I can do this - 6
- I usually do this well - 8
- I usually find this difficult - 0
- I’m not confident about doing this - 0
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Try it yourself Are you amplified?
*Key terms developed by the Institute for the Future as part of its Technology Horizons Program 2007 http://www.iftf.org




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