Why have these "islands of conscious power" survived in the surrounding "ocean of unconscious co-operation", to borrow a phrase from D.H. Robertson, an economist?

借用经济学家d.h罗伯逊的一句话，‘企业这个有意为之的孤岛，是如何在市场这片自发合作的海洋中存活的呢？’

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The problem is that through so much repetition the phrase becomes more of a mantra than something with real meaning and power.

问题是这么多的重复使得这句话已经成了毫无意义和力度的咒语。

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There is a wonderful phrase, that if you get knowledge power and position power into the room at the same time, talking, you can make a lot of progress.

有一个很精彩的说法，如果把”知识力量”和”职位力量”同时放在一个房间，大家进行讨论，你可以取得很大的进步。

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This reminds of another conversation from a meeting in the week before with Ben Edwards, the VP of Digital Strategy at IBM, where he said that same exact phrase: the power to mobilize.

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This is where the phrase Slow down to power up came in.

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So does this mean, to use a resonant phrase gaining a good deal of global traction thanks to the power of social media, that banks such as HSBC are not only "too big to fail" but also "too big to jail"?

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