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Teachers matter. Many people can remember that one great teacher who changed their lives. It’s time to refocus education into creating legions of great teachers to change legions of lives. And pay them more: ‘What do teachers make?’ Well, not that much money, but they do make a huge diffe.
As we move ever further over the threshold into the new normal of a Covid-19 world, we are awash in data. There are algorithms that work out what we like, fed every time we click on a website or “like” something on social media. Artificial intelligence knows more about us than we do ourselves; it knows more about our businesses.
Ultimately AI will lead to autonomous driving, autonomous shopping, perhaps even autonomous living or will it? There’s data available on everything. Masses and masses of it, expanding every day as we add smart devices to our lives, tracking heartbeats and steps and even our pulse oxygen levels.
After four years under the assault of Trumpian exceptionalism, the last thing the world needs is more supermen. It needs Madiba’s higher ideal of collective humanity.
Covid-enforced rules of engagement have given us all rare glimpses into other people’s lives that otherwise would have been unlikely. This week I was fortunate to spend a pleasurable hour on Zoom in the company of characterful world-leading futurist Faith Popcorn and the highly personable Dean Jon Foster-Pedley, director of the Henley Business School Africa.
The conversation focused on happiness and kindness, which Popcorn – whose strategies have underpinned many game-changing innovations for businesses over four decades – has identified as an essential attribute for brands to project. The alternative: customers will turn to those who show they genuinely care about the world and others, said the expert who has been described as the Nostradamus of marketing.