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Professor of innovation, design, and management. Lives in Copenhagen. Author and speaker, consumer of comedy and comics.

Fascinating review of a new book on the whole “cultural marxism”-conspiracy theory. I’ve long thought that people who use the term are idiots, but I did not know the whole convoluted story!

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/mcmanus-woods-cultural-marxism-adorno-marcuse-aja

The Serpent in the Garden | Commonweal Magazine

Why do conservatives blame ‘cultural Marxism’ for nearly everything?

It came out yesterday, but just to let people know: CCC issue 30, on zugzwang in innovation and strategy, out now!

https://alfrehn.substack.com/p/30-zugzwang-in-innovation-and-strategy

#30 – Zugzwang in Innovation and Strategy, or, When Every Move Is a Bad Move

Intro “Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.”

Creative Class Contrarian

So, it's time again for some Creative Class Contrarian goodness, and this week is it a rumble with the stage-gate model. #innovation #innovationmanagement

https://alfrehn.substack.com/p/29-the-5-minute-innovator-the-stage

#29 – The 5-Minute Innovator: The Stage-Gate Model

This is part of a series, “The 5-Minute Innovator”, which describes concepts and theories in the field of innovation without jargon and in no more than 1200 words, which you can read in five minutes without being a speed-reader.

Creative Class Contrarian

Wrote an essay on Goldilocks Zones and Goldilocks Curses in urbanism and innovation, and put it out on CCC.

https://alfrehn.substack.com/p/on-goldilocks-dynamics-in-urbanism

On Goldilocks Dynamics in Urbanism and Innovation

For those of you who follow this newsletter closely, today might seem something of an aberration.

Creative Class Contrarian
So, this is continued from my previous one, again just for testing purposes. #2
This is another test post, so apologies if it bothers you. Trying to see whether this app, Croissant, really can create threads elegantly and so on. #1
Testing out Croissant, to see whether I might become more adept at updating on here…

A bit of a surprise, but not an unpleasant one! ResumoCast, which is the biggest business book summary podcast in Brazil, did a podcast on my book Innovation for the Fatigued. It's in Brazilian Portuguese, so I can't really say much about it, but nice to see!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRNkSAY8kwo

T3#039 A fadiga da inovação | Alf Rehn

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"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit […] and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit."
Not often I get to say this, but: OK, I'm off to Greenland!