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  Business Volatility: three steps to surviving global change

  By Adam Tinworth

  Rapid and unpredictable changes in technology are turning business management into a rollercoaster - here's how to cling on, and enjoy the ride…

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  Uncertainty and the end of business as usual

  By Martin Recke

  Uncertainty has become the norm. That's the end of business as usual.

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  Systems, not products. Global, not American. Empathy, not disruption. The digital trends you cared about in 2019.

  By Adam Tinworth

  The NEXT blog posts from 2019 that caught your attention show a clear roadmap of where digital business is going and paint a fascinating picture of a digital world seeking to learn from its mistakes and reinvent itself.

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  Volatility and the carbon bubble

  By Martin Recke

  Our world is volatile, but is this a good thing or not? It depends. The next wave of volatility may well come from the burst of the carbon bubble.

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  Rehumanising digital and escaping dark design patterns: the NEXT blog posts that caught your attention in 2019

  By Adam Tinworth

  Only one of 2019's most read posts was written in that year. But the older posts that you were still finding valuable show a clear interest in reclaiming the humanity of the digital era.

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  Your NEXT great read: book recommendations for 2020

  By Adam Tinworth

  Four of the NEXT team recommend books to educate, entertain and challenge you in the year to come.

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  Consume better in 2020: The NEXT team’s digital media recommendations

  By Adam Tinworth

  Make your resolution for 2020 to consume better, more challenging and more insightful media. Here's some recommendations to get you going.

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  Stuff to read or listen to over the holidays

  By Martin Recke

  In case you get bored over the Christmas break, you may get back to this post and check out some books, newsletters, blogs or podcasts.

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  Trends 2020: Sustainability and the mid-life crisis of capitalism

  By Martin Recke

  Capitalism in its current shape lacks sustainability, first and foremost in the business sense. We are in the midst of a major reassessment of risk.

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  Trends 2020: fixing our mistakes, building better and with purpose

  By Adam Tinworth

  Amid the chaos and confusion of the end of the decade, can we find some positive, creative and sustainable ways forward into the new one?

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  On individualism and collectivism

  By Martin Recke

  The relation between individualism and collectivism is changing. The business world and the political sphere are adapting to this change in different ways.

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  Politics, polarisation and uncertainty — unpicking a complex problem

  By Adam Tinworth

  It's clear that we need to act on political manipulation of digital – but, unless we do it in a considered way, we could very easily make it worse.

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  Our last chance to avoid digital dystopia

  By Adam Tinworth

  Digital is slowly destroying our democracies. Can we act now to preserve digital freedoms and reconnect the body politic?

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  The parallel worlds of publishing

  By Martin Recke

  The book publishing industry is a parallel world in its own right. How fitting to publish a book about Parallelwelten.

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  Divide and rule: the dark side of parallel digital cultures

  By Adam Tinworth

  The internet can seduce us into like-minded bubbles of people like us. But isolate communities can be easily influenced, and turned down a darker path…

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  The real digital revolution

  By Martin Recke

  Democratising digital will require a real digital revolution: an ownership right on personal data.

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  Building a politics fit for innovation

  By Adam Tinworth

  If you believe in innovation as a cycle rather than as an event, it profoundly changes how you can plan for it. And getting that right might define which parts of the world prosper in the coming decades.

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  The parallel worlds of culture

  By Martin Recke

  Digital cultures are fundamentally different not only from mass culture of the 20th century, but also from each other. They'll probably develop a new kind of public sphere.

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  Purpose and profit are the twin hearts of sustainable business

  By Adam Tinworth

  Today's digital workers crave more than position and profit - they want purpose in their work. And building your strategy around business with purpose may just be a competitive advantage in the battle for talent.

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  Different types of innovation

  By Martin Recke

  There are different types of innovation, depending on the product lifecycle. But Apple remains the exception that proves the rule.

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  What’s the purpose of business?

  By Martin Recke

  In a world of overwhelming complexity, it isn't easy to find the purpose of business. We shouldn't veil our confusion.

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  The digital is inescapably political: it’s time to accept that

  By Adam Tinworth

  The digital evangelists of the 1990s saw cyberspace as a haven safe from the politics of the "real" world. They could not have been more wrong — and we're still paying for their mistake.

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  Democratising digital

  By Martin Recke

  We are in deep need of digital democracy. But it's not about digitising democracy, but democratising digital.

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