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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

Summers, meanwhile, is the second most powerful economic official in the U.S. The other big idea in the 1988 article was chaos theory. Thaler and Shiller are now among the most prominent economists on earth, best-selling authors, and regular betting favorites for (albeit not yet actual winners of) the economics Nobel.

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How to Unleash Possibility in 2015

Management Craft

In addition, I have included an edited version of my essay, “The Butterfly Effect”, which I humbly believe has the power to transform lives (not because of my writing, but because of the butterfly effect itself). Which is more powerful - physical or mental barriers? Within chaos hides possibility…. You can start right now.

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How to Unleash Possibility in 2015

Management Craft

In addition, I have included an edited version of my essay, “The Butterfly Effect”, which I humbly believe has the power to transform lives (not because of my writing, but because of the butterfly effect itself). Which is more powerful - physical or mental barriers? Within chaos hides possibility…. You can start right now.

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The Wickedness Behind Most 21st-Century Leadership Failures

Harvard Business Review

However, systems thinking, chaos theory, power laws, and the like are not enough. When our standard intuitions meet modern-day complexity, a brain-world gap arises. Closing this brain-world gap depends, in part, on exploiting the insights of complexity science.