To innovate, think like Robespierre, Socrates and the Bolsheviks

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Short List: Barn raising, popularised in the 19th century and still popular with the Amish, has been cited by the Harvard Business Review as this season's must-have idea for innovators. What else from the ash heap of history could point the way to the future? 

18th August 2016
By Larry Ryan


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What phrenology can tell us about Design Thinking

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Why the levellers were the original Disrupters

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Take inspiration for Systems Change by examining the fall of Tzarist Russia

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How the meta fiction of Tristram Shandy gave us Pokemon Go

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What cities in the post-Brexit era could learn from a 14th-century trading bloc

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Socrates was the Elon Musk of classical Athens

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To Scale Up, act like a Viking ship

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Big Data explained by the Census of Quirinius

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To create a Theory of Change, think like Robespierre


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