Business

Strategic Foresight & Pandemic Planning

Kristel Van der Elst has agreat post on the MIT Technology Review about using strategic foresight to plan for uncertain times. A handy skill in the pandemic we now find ourselves. She lays out a sequence of stels aimed at identifying as many explicit scenarios and opportunites as possible and taking the emotion out of planning for them.

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Book Review: Supercrash by Darryl Cunningham

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This week I read the riveting & eye-opening Supercrash. Using the medium of comic strips, the author deftly delivers the outrageous facts and context behind the 2008 financial crash, it's beginnings in the theories and influence of Ayn Rand and her objectivists, and the systematic hijacking of the economic and political world since. Most presciently, the division between left and right wing is brilliantly explained, using succinct captions and poignant illustrations. A must-read explainer for the world we find ourselves in today.

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Podcast of the Week: That Great Business Show

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Irish readers may remember the great radio show on TodayFM called The Sunday Business Show that was hosted by Conal Ó Móráin that sadly went off air in 2018. Well, Conal is back with a new podcast and a new co-host, former Irish rugby player and investor Jamie Heaslip. Check out That Great Business Show on www.thatgreatbusinessshow.com.

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Cultivating Diversity & Inclusion At Work

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Jennifer Kim lists 50+ fantastic ideas for cultivating diversity and inclusion at work.

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The Plastic Recycling Lie

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"It's pure manipulation of the consumer"NPR's Planet Money expose on how big oil misled the public into believing plastic would be recycled.

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Environment

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The $88Tn World Economy

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Howmuch.net created this fascinating chart that visualises the entire $88 Trillion world economy based on country GDP figures.

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Data Vis

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Tackling Systemic Problems

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Seth Godin published a great blog post this week on how to tackle systemic problems. The answer? By committing to the long, persistent road to altering the status quo. This advice reminds me of the old quote about how to eat an elephant, one bite at a time. An important lesson pointed out by Seth in his post is that short-term urgency cannot be allowed to overtake long-term sustained effort in the quest for system change.

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Modern Product Specs

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Product Dave over on Product Coalition published a great step by step guide on how to make modern product specifications. The guide covers making wireframes, to feature identification with the team, through to wiki docs and high fidelity prototypes.

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Web Dev

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Rebooting Capitalism

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The Digital-Life-Deisgn (DLD) Conference recently interviewed economist Mariana Mazzucato about the concept of Rebooting Capitalism. Mariana spoke about how mission driven economies and strategies, which structured value and equity dissemination, is the way forward for a constructive capitalist society that benefits its citizens and the planet.