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Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

As I participated, one theme seemed omnipresent — that while events are unfolding in the world at an accelerating pace, increasingly complex institutions are less and less able to deal with them. The presentation to 50 people was followed by a discussion of antidotes to the dangerous trends they showed.

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How Our Economy Was Overrun by Monsters and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

Throw in a broken education system that's not just unaffordable, but slightly pointless, a frightening tax bill for their parents and grandparents' profligacy, and a global youth unemployment crisis , and it becomes clear why economists are increasingly dubbing today's young a " lost generation.".