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In this chapter, Ghez explains how the change-maker game works. A future front page of a famous daily talks about the person of the year who transformed the world in a dramatic and unprecedented way. The game’s objective is to think about the identity of this person, about what that person is doing and where, with what skills and personal qualities. This game is an important exercise in mental gymnastics for architects of change: It helps them determine whether their targets and objectives are on par with the changes that the business environment is going through, and, even more importantly, if their skill set is still likely to help them make a difference tomorrow.
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The language is drawn from British economist John Maynard Keynes’ 1945 speech to British policymakers about the attitude they should adopt as they negotiated the global financial architecture with American officials after the end of World War II. See: “How Keynes Would Negotiate Brexit,” The Economist, August 15, 2018, https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/08/15/how-keynes-would-negotiate-brexit.
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“The Future of Jobs Report 2018” (Geneva, Switzerland: World Economic Forum, September 17, 2018), https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2018/.
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Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Updated, Expanded (New York: Picador, 2007).
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Thomas L. Friedman, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016).
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As Friedman once put it in a radio show, empowering people means “enabling individuals to complete, connect and collaborate so much faster, farther cheaper and deeper.”
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Daniela Papi Thornton, “Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship,” (TEDx Talk, July 6, 2017), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdrfMqBRfEQ.
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Ghez, J. (2019). Case Study: The Change-Maker Game. In: Architects of Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20684-0_4
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