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Now’s the perfect time to plot a course for the future

Innovation 360 Group

Penker (2008-2011). The post Now’s the perfect time to plot a course for the future appeared first on Innovation Consultant | Innovation 360 | Home Of Innovation. To simplify the analysis, the sixty-six capabilities measured in the InnoSurvey® are organized into sixteen aspects on our Wheel of Innovation.

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VUCA is a matter of perspective

Jeffrey Phillips

Not too many people seem to remember the stock market crash of 2008, but of course that was a decade ago. There is of course the famous and perhaps misquoted statement by Zhou Enlai, the Chinese premier, who replied "too early to say" when asked about the impact of the French revolution. If you need help, contact me.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

Christensen Institute

But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers. As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. She cited A.P. Calculus and Latin as examples.

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Are you Ready to use this Economic Downturn to Become Recession Proof?

Daniel Burrus

But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. A brief example of an organization that capitalized on the 2008 recession in remarkable ways is Lego.

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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn. But of course not all of our organizations are as flush with cash as Apple, which gives the company the luxury to invest in creating the future while managing through the uncertainties of the present. economic lows and highs are a reality of business, and life.

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How Facebook misses out on Talent

Destination Innovation

Little wonder then that Bloomberg reported that 150 of the USA largest tech firms were sued 226 times for age discrimination from 2008 to 2015. Of course some older people are complacent, stubborn and technology averse – but so are some youngsters. In 2007 at age 22 Mark Zuckerberg profoundly stated, ‘Younger people are just smarter.

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How much luck do you need to be creative?

Idea to Value

There are of course examples of individuals who have either immense talent, physical advantages or sheer willpower to train and practice harder and better than anyone else, that are a factor in success. In the 100m butterfly in 2008 in Beijing, Phelps beat Serbia’s Milorad Cavic by one one-hundredths of a second.