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Scenario Planning: An Approach for Turbulent Times
Traditional strategic planning assumes a high level of agency by the organization doing the planning. In these times, no organization can assume such agency. Scenario planning is an approach that helps leaders identify potential futures, develop robust strategies, and build adaptability into your organization.
Growing Up: How Young People Find Their Way
The United States needs - but lacks - a cohesive set of policies that will enable all young people to grow up and thrive as adults. Here’s what it will take to enable a healthy transition to adulthood for all.
Building Up: How Infrastructure Funding Translates to Jobs and Opportunity
I’ve identified, from state case studies, what Structures for Success are needed to translate infrastructure funding into jobs. Unfortunately, no state is bringing all of these pieces together.
Leisure Is the Rule, Work Is the Exception
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity is one of those books that demands constant pauses for underlining and (in my case) exclamation points in the margins. There are so many lessons to draw from the book, but one provocative thread is around our assumption about how much work our ancestors performed.
This Holiday, Consider: Americans Are Drunk on Work
"Americans have a kind of insane relationship with time, in which we are in a sense being used by time and trapped by it."
Why We Need Subsidized Jobs for Young People
There are two big areas of need in our recovery efforts: subsidized employment and opportunities to serve.