PALI LEHOHLA | Steel your nerves: ignore long-term scenarios at your peril, SA
What are the lessons for South Africa in the light of ArcelorMittal shutting down its operations?
13 January 2025 - 04:30
Understanding why scenarios matter for nations is a fundamental necessity. South Africans have ignored them to our peril! Scenarios provide crucial railguards in systems thinking and design. They are non-threatening mental acrobatics that approximate different futures and benefit from walking the distance into that future and dreaming of all options and possibilities. They are fundamental to a national development plan...
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