
Don Tapscott
Thinkers 50 2019 Hall of Fame Inductee | CEO, The Tapscott Group
Don Tapscott, CEO of The Tapscott Group, is one
of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of
technology on business and society. He has authored over 16 books, including Wikinomics: How
Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, which
has been translated into over 25 languages.
Don has been advancing groundbreaking concepts
for over 3 decades. His 1992 bestseller, Paradigm
Shift, helped coin this seminal management concept, and The Digital Economy, written in 1995,
changed business thinking about the transformational nature of the Internet. Two years later he
helped popularize the terms “Net Generation” and
“the Digital Divide” in Growing Up Digital.
Don’s most recent and ambitious book was co-authored
with his son, startup CEO and bitcoin governance expert
Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Underlying Bitcoin is Changing Business, Money and
the World was published in May 2016 and is, according to
Harvard Business School’s Clay Christensen, “the book,
literally, on how to survive and thrive in this next wave of
technology-driven disruption.” In 2018, Don and Alex published an updated edition with a new subtitle: How
the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Is Chang

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