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Scan for the 3 key ingredients of trends to survive in the Expectation Economy

Strategy Driven

Patagonia is spreading expectations around supply chain transparency. Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. Trends – and behavior more broadly – are ultimately rooted in our basic, fundamental, rarely-if-ever-changing human needs, wants and desires.

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Is the End of GE Capital Good News for Ecomagination?

Harvard Business Review

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Humanity needs the kind of hard-core, heavy, physical infrastructure that GE sells, and we badly need clean infrastructure in particular. billion people.