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Spark File 2017

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Updated: 19 Feb 2017

Themes to Explore:

  •  Skills Shelf Life Vs Learning Speed – How will people keep up with the pace of change?

“Ten out of eleven good-to-great CEOs came from inside the company, three of them by family inheritance. The comparison companies turned to outsiders with six times greater frequency—yet they failed to produce sustained great results.

– Good to Great by Jim Collins

  •  The Next Economy – What will people do?

“Many people are seeing the erosion of their economic futures. The labor market troubles of the young—which you can observe in many countries—are a harbinger of the new world of work to come. Lacking the right training means being shut out of opportunities like never before. 

At the same time, the very top earners, who often have advanced postsecondary degrees, are earning much more. Average is over is the catchphrase of our age, and it is likely to apply all the more to our future.”

“If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch. Ever more people are starting to fall on one side of the divide or the other. That’s why average is over.”

– Average is Over by Tyler Cowan

  • Jobs, Identies & Socities – How will people demonstrate worth?

Administration Strategy

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Notes From:

Is Trump Floundering, or Is Bannon Making Good on His ‘Revolution’? | Foreign Policy

Quotes:

Bannon and other like-minded ideologues in the Trump White House view disruption and polarization as means of pressing ahead with their agenda and rallying their core supporters.

when a story comes up which is not helpful, not favorable, or when he wants to get people disrupted … he throws a ball and everybody scrambles after it and neglects the story they should be following.

the hallmarks of a “shock event” designed to throw adversaries off guard and seize the initiative.

A successful shock event depends on speed and chaos because it requires knee-jerk reactions so that people divide along established lines

Bannon and his allies are trying to squeeze through a shrinking window of opportunity, moving quickly and decisively before the federal government’s bureaucracy can respond and before members of Congress or grass roots activists can coalesce to push back