Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce (a TED Talk)

Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce – Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce – and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness. Detective of fads and emerging subcultures, chronicler of jobs-you-never-knew-existed, Malcolm Gladwell’s work is toppling the popular understanding of bias, crime,…

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Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story (a TED Talk)

Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story – Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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Ken Robinson says Schools Kill Creativity (a TED Talk)

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity – Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.  Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple…

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Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Thinking in Systems: A Primer – by Donella H. Meadows In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth–the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet– Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in…

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow – by Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields –…

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Returning To Our Core Competencies

We are excited to be returning to our core competencies – helping leaders and their organizations prepare for change and uncertainty (and we’re talking about much more than risk mitigation) – and then helping them manage the parts they can control, and navigate the parts they can’t. This can start by getting clear about the…

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