Want to know what influential young leaders are thinking about the problem of climate change?
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For each technological hurdle deemed insurmountable by the experts, I would spend just a few hours thinking about the problem from a variety of sources.
It would be nice, therefore, to believe that somewhere, the contemporary equivalent of a bored patent clerk is thinking about the problem, and that when he has thought hard enough, a new reality will emerge.
He has been thinking about the problem of learning for over three decades, starting with courses in problem solving that he taught at the University of California, Irvine, and then with artificial intelligence systems that Xerox built for the Army to better troubleshoot broken electronics.
Most entrepreneurs (myself included) are type A personalities who are always thinking about the next big thing or problem in their companies.
Open Innovation is a real force multiplier for AFRL. By opening this challenge up to the world through Innocentive, we were able to multiply the number of people thinking about this problem over 100-fold, and received a workable solution within a 60-day period.
And a little publicity and financial incentive gets some of the greatest untapped minds to start thinking about a problem they may have never thought they could solve, until now.
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To put it simply, thinking about the planet under pressure is still framed mainly in terms of problem-solving.
In thinking about leadership selection this way, however, they fundamentally misunderstand the problem they face in choosing a leader.
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And the problem is, if we're not thinking about ways to curve the inflation, then even if we put more money in, what that money is buying becomes less and less.
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But in thinking about a problem, it is unproductive to look critically only at policies while ignoring the stated end.
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