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Super Hero Skills

Ping Quotient: Excellent responsiveness to other people's requests for engagement; strong propensity and ability to reach out to others in a network

Longbroading: Seeing a much bigger picture; thinking in terms of higher level systems, bigger networks, longer cycles

Open Authorship: Creating content for public modification; the ability to work with massively multiple contributors

Cooperation Radar: The ability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task or mission

Multi-Capitalism: Fluency in working and trading simultaneously with different hybrid capitals, e.g., natural, intellectual, social, financial, virtual

Mobbability: The ability to do real-time work in very large groups; a talent for coordinating with many people simultaneously; extreme-scale collaboration

Protovation: Fearless innovation in rapid, iterative cycles; the ability to lower the costs and increase the speed of failure

Influency: Knowing how to be persuasive and tell compelling stories in multiple social media spaces (each space requires a different persuasive strategy and technique)

Signal/Noise Management: Filtering meaningful info, patterns, and commonalities from the massively-multiple streams of data and advice

Emergensight: The ability to prepare for and handle surprising results and complexity that come with coordination, cooperation and collaboration on extreme scales

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