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What if culture is the solution: Big Pictures 005
A culture that is stuck in the present is one that can’t solve big problems. If you want to plan for the future, if you want to handle big social and political challenges, you have to decouple yourself from day-to-day crises, to look back at history, to learn from it, to see trendlines. You have to be usefully detached from the moment.
Clive Thompson • Social media is keeping us stuck in the moment
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And in the modern workscape we desperately need people with the ability to see big picture solutions. That’s where being a polymath has certain advantages.
Harvard Business Review • In Defense of Polymaths
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“details are best cared for when they can be thought about holistically from a macro point of view. large organizations, by design, don’t allow for that.” (Brandon Jacoby)
Anthony Hobday • Blog
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Conceptualization: the capacity to see larger systems and forces at play and to construct public, testable ways of expressing these views.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Collectively, we also need pictures of societal futures that go beyond today’s status quo. They complement but do not replace the necessary work of activism that fights against the injustices of the present. We also need new answers to new problems—the vulnerabilities caused by a more connected world, or by potentially lethal artificial intelligenc
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
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