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3 ways to plan for the (very) long term

Futurist Ari Wallach helps leaders more consciously and ethically shape tomorrow. In this futuristically-inclined TED talk, he prompts us to move beyond making decisions based on short-term goals and gains — an approach that makes the future more uncertain and less safe. In doing so, we are urged to instead ask the question: How can we learn to think about and plan for a better future in the long term? To help us answer this question, he shares three tactics for thinking beyond the immediate…

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