When the terms are “evolve or perish,” not being creative is no longer an option.  Vijay Vaitheeswaran, global correspondent for The Economist, says that members of the middle class must think of themselves as ordinary entrepreneurs.   Blazing one’s own educational and career path must become par for the course…

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The big dot here to connect…?

If this is true, then none other than artists are the ones holding the keys to survival.  Artists’ individual and collective abilities to navigate creative destruction and approach each day’s unrepeatable problems, framing projects that can solve them with fresh thinking, represent the leadership-by-example that is most critically needed in today’s world.

Let’s place a higher value on it.