Ideas Aren’t Getting Harder to Find
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The CEO’s role as chief storyteller
by Blair Epstein (10 mins)
Summary: The article explains that in an age of disruption, CEOs must become their organizations’ “chief storytellers.” Their personal narrative—through words, actions, and visibility—shapes how stakeholders perceive the company and its direction. McKinsey identifies three key roles: setting the organizational tone, embodying culture and values, and leading decisively in critical moments to build trust and drive growth.
Ideal for: Current and aspiring CEOs, founders, and senior executives who want to strengthen their leadership communication, build stakeholder trust, and create cohesive organizational narratives that align culture, purpose, and performance.
Why It’s Worth Your Time: It offers a practical framework for how CEOs can transform communication into a strategic leadership tool—illustrating how effective storytelling, culture-building, and timely decision-making can enhance reputation, stakeholder engagement, and long-term business resilience.
Ideas Aren’t Getting Harder to Find
by Karthik Tadepalli (23 mins)
Summary: The article argues that the slowdown in productivity growth is not due to a decline in innovation or a shortage of ideas, but rather because markets have become less effective at commercializing and rewarding them. While research continues to generate valuable and even increasing numbers of breakthrough technologies, structural inefficiencies prevent these innovations from translating into economic growth.
Ideal for: Economists, policymakers, and progress-studies enthusiasts seeking to understand why economic growth has stagnated despite ongoing technological progress — and who want to explore how market dynamics, competition, and firm behavior influence innovation outcomes.
Why It’s Worth Your Time: The piece reframes the productivity slowdown debate, shifting attention from the myth that “ideas are harder to find” to the real challenge of weak market mechanisms. It highlights that fixing allocative efficiency — ensuring that innovative firms can thrive — may be key to reigniting growth and fully realizing the potential of modern innovation.
Why is knowledge getting so expensive?
by Jeffrey Edmunds (16 mins)
Summary: Jeffrey Edmunds explains how libraries are losing control of knowledge due to the shift from owning physical books to licensing ebooks. Publishers dominate the digital market, revoking access, inflating prices, and restricting transparency — even though the academic work they sell is largely publicly funded.
Ideal for: Students, educators, librarians, and policymakers concerned with the accessibility, affordability, and ethics of knowledge distribution in the digital age.
Why It’s Worth Your Time: The talk exposes the systemic flaws in scholarly publishing and highlights the promise of open access and open educational resources (OER) as sustainable, democratic solutions to make knowledge freely available to all.
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Really enjoyed this week’s collection. What stood out to me is how all three pieces—storytelling in leadership, innovation bottlenecks, and the rising cost of knowledge—point to the same underlying theme: ideas themselves aren’t the problem; our systems for amplifying, distributing, and rewarding them are.
Whether it's a CEO shaping culture through narrative, markets failing to allocate innovation efficiently, or publishers restricting access to publicly funded knowledge, the real leverage seems to be in improving the infrastructure around ideas, not generating more of them.