Without it flexibility of thinking can become diffused and the results look like a fish out of water, flopping around on a dock.

FORBES: 4 Things That Set Great Companies Apart from the Crowd

They recognize that constantly shifting markets, with global competitors, requires the flexibility to apply novel thinking and test new solutions constantly.

FORBES: Beware Best Practices, They Can Kill Productivity, Innovation and Growth - Adopt Facebook, Linked-in, Twitter

The details will vary from company to company, but every business needs to spend some time thinking about how to achieve greater flexibility in their strategy and operations.

FORBES: Uncertainty and Risk Management: What to Do About Black Swans?

We need high schools that produce in students the kind of skills necessary for the modern economy: flexibility, creativity, social intelligence, lateral thinking, entrepreneurial spirit.

FORBES: Why a Child's Character May Determine Their Success

Rahim Kanani: Looking ahead 5, 10, 20 years, will corporations ultimately become the new hubs of innovation, or are we overestimating the flexibility of businesses to adapt to this new way of thinking and doing?

FORBES: 'Business Model Innovation is the Fastest Path to Greatness'

The complexity and interrelatedness of these problems required more than just new strategies: it requires new paradigms of understanding the situation, thinking holistically about ecosystems and interacting parts, and above all, how to create models with enough flexibility to evolve.

FORBES: 3 Messages from BRAC's Frugal Innovation Forum for the Skoll World Forum