John Beck is President of North Star Leadership Group, Inc. (http://www.nslg.net), and a Senior Research Fellow at University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. Formerly, his posts included being Director of International Research at Accenture where he gained a reputation as a guru in mobile communication technologies and uses; and Senior Advisor and consultant at the Monitor Group. He previously founded Hult Labs and served as the Dean of Globis University (Japan) - the first non-Japanese to lead a bilingual professional degree program in Japan and was also a professor and senior advisor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and a Professor of Global Management & Dean of Research at Thunderbird School of Global Management. John earned his B.A. in East Asian Studies and Sociology summa cum laude from Harvard University, and was the first graduate of Harvard's integrative Ph.D. program in Organizational Behavior. Dr. Beck is a Visiting Professor at IMD (Switzerland), IPADE (Mexico) and ESMT (Germany). John has also taught at numerous other universities like: Harvard, UCLA, USC, and the Ivey School in Canada. Dr. Beck served as the senior strategic advisor to the First Prime Minister, Prince Ranariddh, during Cambodia's first three years as a democracy. He has written nine books and hundreds of articles: including: Godd vs Good, The Attention Economy, DoCoMo, Got Game, Japan's Business Renaissance, and The Kids are Alright. His books have been translated into eleven languages. He has appeared on CNN, CBS Evening News, Fox News and is a frequent guest on National Public Radio. He is quoted and cited in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times and other leading papers and magazines.