Tiffany Shlain, award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Webby awards, creates disruptive innovation using social media and film. Her critically acclaimed work and new crowdsourced films invite universal conversations about what it means to be connected in the 21st century.

At many companies, there’s a lot of room for lip service, but little for real failure. We hear the catch phrases over and over: failure is necessary for success, we must fail faster to succeed sooner, and so on. But as soon as the possibility of actual failure arises, suddenly all those comforting clichés fly out the window.

On December 8, the Center for Technology Innovation at The Brookings Institution will launch a new mobile economy project, which will examine and document the impact of the mobile revolution on the economies of developed and developing countries, with a forum exploring how mobile technology can ease the everyday lives of Americans.