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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. VUCA is, however, more relevant than ever to people who refuse to take the long view, or who refuse to prepare. We innovators and purveyors of future insight talk about VUCA like it's a problem.

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How much luck do you need to be creative?

Idea to Value

However, this is an example of survivorship bias , where for every successful person, there will be a multitude of others who did almost the exactly same things but did not succeed, so you never hear about their efforts or failures. Some people who are successful will acknowledge how luck played a role in their success.

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6 trends to watch in K-12 schools in 2024

Christensen Institute

As we move through the beginning of 2024, parent power, rethinking assessments, and career and technical education (CTE) for every student are some of the trends rippling through K–12 education. Many of the microschools that have popped up are small co-ops that a single teacher, who is disaffected with their public school, decided to create.

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Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innovators Alliance

We often jump to cost-cutting in an effort to preserve profits and cash flow. The logic is simple: we need to stay afloat. As a result, we focus internally, at the expense of forward-looking innovation. And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | As we seem to heading towards economic downturn, leaders find themselves trying to reduce costs and foster growth at the same time. We have seen this happening during the last economic crisis, when merely 10% of companies performed better at the end of the crisis than they did before it.

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Thank Heavens for Leaders who can Change their Minds

Destination Innovation

Why do we find it so hard to change our minds? Why are we so critical of people who do change their minds? We need leaders who are open to new evidence and who are prepared to change direction. The police brought in an expert who constructed what he claimed was a psychological profile of the killer.

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Life Lessons from the Game of Golf

Tullio Siragusa

Playing as often as possible, reading how to books, and taking as many clients on the course as possible. The more open we are to learn, the humbler we remain, the more fulfilled we become as we grow and become better than we were the day before. Life Lessons from the Game of Golf.