Dan Pink is a mas­ter of cre­ative swip­ing, which is MBA-speak for “he steals other peo­ples’ ideas.” Which isn’t to say he’s not a clever chap. And we cer­tainly guys like him, crafty writ­ers who aren’t put off by research, who weave the lat­est ideas into pithy, punchy, com­pelling nar­ra­tives. Cer­tainly, for every artic­u­late Dan […]

The new prob­lems of the world require fresh approaches. They require our inge­nu­ity and our care­ful, cre­ative con­sid­er­a­tion. You and I know this, but still most of us don’t often get mean­ing­fully involved. Why is this? I think there is a col­lec­tive feel­ing that these prob­lems are too big for any of us to make […]

Today’s grad­u­ates face a new breed of chal­lenges as they enter the work­force. They will con­front messier, intractable prob­lems such as cli­mate change, global ter­ror­ism, antibi­otic resis­tant dis­eases and per­sis­tent mar­ket weak­ness. The same tech­nolo­gies that empow­ered them as learn­ers at the same time also mul­ti­plied the poten­tial for global havoc. And this has changed the definition […]

When I started my bet­ter liv­ing project it wasn’t really about qual­ity of life at all. It was more about fac­ing the ques­tion: “what kind of life is best for a per­son liv­ing in our times?” It was as much about being respon­si­ble as any­thing else. I was wor­ried espe­cially about intractable prob­lems like global […]

Hans Rosling and Design that Mat­ters offer two com­pelling exam­ples of prac­ti­cal design mak­ing a tan­gi­ble dif­fer­ence in Inter­na­tional Development.