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Think Like An Artist
What can business leaders learn form artists? Be more flexible, don’t try to plan everything in advance – in times of rapid change, this is unlikely to work anyway.
“We need, in facing an unpredictable future, unpredictable minds” that are “comfortable with navigating ambiguity, uncertainty”, British author Margaret Heffernan argues in her DLD Munich 2020 talk. After all, she says, we are “more than data, more than numbers, and we have freedom – if we remember to use it.”
Margaret Heffernan
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Dr. Margaret Heffernan is a former BBC producer, entrepreneur and author, most recently of Uncharted: How to map the future. She is Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute’s Responsible Leadership Programme and, through Merryck & Co., mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organizations.
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