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2016

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Jana Eggers: Bringing A Needed Human Touch to AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) will allow us to do things we haven’t done before, but Nara Logics CEO Jana Eggers cautions against seeing AI as a mysterious or subversive force.
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Dave Gray: Drawing Reality, Picturing A Future
Dave Gray draws in order to understand the world. "When you draw, you are taking in the things that you see and translating them into something you can express with a gesture.”
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Liza Donnelly: Live-Drawing What She Sees In The World
Cartoonist Liza Donnelly aims for the “affectionate poke” more than the straight joke. Her feminist cartoons are “scenes of men and women talking, on the ground floor, where we get at problems.”
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Christine Goodwin: Solve The Real Problems In The World
Christine Goodwin says startup founders are modern-day frontiersmen. “The adrenalin doesn’t come from the fact that it’s chaotic,” she says, “but from what’s in there — real problems that need attention.”
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John Hagel: The Age Of The Trusted Advisor
Nurturing solid support networks is fundamental to what will matter in the economic and social scene taking shape around us, John Hagel says. Trust is critical in the relationship-based economy we are moving toward.
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Todd Khozein: Complex Problems Need Complex Networks
Everything moves toward harmony, says Todd Khozein, who helps clients address complex social and environmental problems through collaboration. The solitary genius who will save us with an a-ha moment is a myth.
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Coss Marte: Translating ‘Hustle’ To ‘Work’
Coss Marte’s philosophy: Work with what you have and build on it, even if what you have to work with includes a stint in prison.
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Richard K. Miller: Educating ‘Engineer Innovators’
An engineer is a person who envisions what has never been and does whatever it takes to make it happen, says Richard K. Miller, president of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
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Dr. Kavita Patel: Chronic Loneliness Is Killing Us
In a medical culture that privileges some diseases over others, “regular bread and butter medicine” gets little attention. The doctor and the patient lose sight of one another., says Dr. Kavita Patel.
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Celine Schillinger: We Can Be Activists Within Our Corporations
When Celine Schillinger speaks of employee engagement, she does not mean temporary spurts of fun orchestrated by management. But, she says, engagement for the sake of engagement just keeps people happy so that they don’t claim power.
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Darden Smith: Love Wins (Encore)
Taking the audience seriously is good business, says songwriter Darden Smith. “I want you to take my music home with you. I want you to come back." That give-and-take, he says, is what makes positive change in the world.
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Ross Szabo: Taking Care Of Our Mental Health
The standard ingredients for good physical health — rest, diet, and exercise — are also vital starting points for good mental health, says Ross Szabo. He urges people to be responsible for their own mental health.
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Bill Taylor: Making The Ordinary Extraordinary
In his book 'Simply Brilliant', Bill Taylor says he found and wrote about "long-established incumbent organizations that are able to rethink and renew their industries in ways that we wouldn’t normally expect.”
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Whitney Johnson: ‘Disrupt Yourself’
The consultant's 'S-curve' can be used as a structure to understand and navigate personal disruption, says Whitney Johnson.
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Irwin Kula: How Can Religion Make Us Better Humans?
Rabbi Irwin Kula has been on the vanguard of disruptive innovation since it became the mantra of the post-dot.com reality. He sees disruptive innovation as a necessary force in what he calls this ‘next epic’ of religion.
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Kalimah Priforce: Coding Is Just A Problem-Solving Tool
Hacking isn't just something that happens when you're in front of your computer. It happens all around your life.
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Natalie Nixon: Chaos And Order Exist In Harmony
Natalie Nixon is a proponent of chaordic systems thinking, the idea that chaos and order (or, randomness and structure) can exist in harmony.
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Dava Newman: Who Wants To Go To Mars?
NASA deputy administrator Dava Newman has been engrossed in massive planning for the administration’s next giant leap: the Journey to Mars.
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Andrew Hessel: When Biology Goes Digital
“The thing that has fascinated me for most of my life is that we’re just starting to understand and manipulate living things,” says Andrew Hessel.
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Amy Whitaker: The Design Of Business
Amy Whitaker describes herself as a human Venn diagram, a person of many intersecting circles. Whitaker is an MBA with an MFA, a self-proclaimed jack-of-all trades who teaches business to artists and art to business people.
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Roberto Rivera: From Dope Dealer To Hope Dealer
If our kids today can realize their link in the chain of the hip-hop tradition, it’s not so farfetched that they might create the next Facebook.
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Gregory Downing: Pushing The Boundaries Of Healthcare
Gregory Downing's early experience in the intimate setting of a rural doctor’s office keeps him ever mindful of the goal of medical innovation — to bring people together to provide the best primary care for their neighbors.
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Shaun Modi: Designing For Seamless Human Connections
The mind of the designer is mildly restless, Shaun Modi suggests.
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Harvey Seifter: The Fluid Relationship Between Art And Science
Art holds the disciplines together and keeps us attuned to shifts in reality. Artists have a head start on the transformation of the world.
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Joseph Coughlin: Inventing The Future Of Aging
Most people have an extremely limited concept of aged people, Joseph Coughlin says. They're wrong.
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Matt Cottam: Designing For The Preferable Future
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Kelley Black: Heart of Innovation
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Brandon Barnett: Finding The Pattern In The Change
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Penny Baldwin: Dive In To New Challenges
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Kare Anderson: Be The Glue That Holds Others Together
Writer Kare Anderson firmly believes that learning to connect and collaborate more effectively can not only help us succeed, but can also foster collaborations that create opportunities to serve the greater good.
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Stowe Boyd: How ‘Isms’ Keep Us From Transforming How We Work
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