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Don’t pine for a POST-C-19 world. We’re never going back to “normal”. So now what?

Don’t pine for a POST-C-19 world. We’re never going back to “normal”. So now what?

May 13, 2020 | Anticipation, COVID-19, Mega Trends, Perpendicular Thinking, Social Commentary, Strategy, Thinking Tools

Photo by Alok Sharma on Unsplash We live in the world C-19 has permanently changed. We need to pivot now from a crisis mindset to a coexistence one. Next, we’ll need to figure out how to capitalize on it. In early March (after SXSW was canceled, before the NBA shut...
The Coronapocalypse is a failure of competence, but also of capitalism

The Coronapocalypse is a failure of competence, but also of capitalism

Mar 31, 2020 | Anticipation, Mega Trends, Modern Life, News, Perpendicular Thinking, Social Commentary, Strategy, Thinking Tools

Photo by Joshua Brown on Unsplash Are you surprised that the whole US economic system has essentially collapsed in a matter of weeks? I am. This is an enormously disruptive shock, to be fair. But the speed with which the health of the American economy has gone from...
Relinquish one of your – or your company’s – most long-standing ideas

Relinquish one of your – or your company’s – most long-standing ideas

Jan 25, 2020 | Acceleration, Perpendicular Thinking, Thinking Tools

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash If there was a holy trinity of crucial 21st-century skills, I would personally nominate the following: lifelong learning, stillness (of mind as well as of body) and contrarian (or least critical) thinking. The first one is obvious and...
The Perils of Being Stuck in a Pleasant Present: 7 Strategies for overcoming Status Quo Bias

The Perils of Being Stuck in a Pleasant Present: 7 Strategies for overcoming Status Quo Bias

Apr 21, 2019 | Perpendicular Thinking, Reinvention, Routines, Strategy, Thinking Tools

“If you are considering a change, you are past the point where you should have made it.” Tyler Cowen, Economist When was the last time you did something for the first time? When was the last time you took a risk, or even diverged from your usual routine? Don’t feel...

Summer Vacations, QWERTY Keyboards and the Power of Perpendicular Thinking

Jul 24, 2018 | Perpendicular Thinking, Thinking Tools

Have you ever wondered why we take summer vacations? The practice is a relic of the agrarian economy and was meant to allow farmers’ children (a critical part of the workforce at the time) to pitch in during harvest season. Small family farming began to recede...

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