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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths. Saturation is reached at 90%+.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

However, even these commodity offerings can find ways to innovate and survive. As with all such innovations, a global standards war is under way. When we buy an insurance policy at an individual household level or for a large, complex business or project, the only items that seal the deal are some papers with promissory statements.