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Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. For example, in Japan, the utility company believed its nuclear problem was water — not enough water to cool the reactors and ponds. A former assistant managing editor for Business Week , he is professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons The New School for Design.

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An Exercise to Get Your Team Thinking Differently About the Future

Harvard Business Review

A way around this fallacy, we’ve found, is a speed-dating version of scenario planning, one that takes hours rather than months. For example, the group defined the education driver as “the degree to which US elementary through higher education has developed curricula to produce science and technical talent.”