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How to Design Your Life

Your course, Design Your Life, helps MBA students do just that, with a focus on their careers. Which aspects of this are related to innovation?

Many of them are, but to understand this, one has to develop ‘innovation literacy’. Innovation literacy is the knowledge and competence required to bring something new and useful into existence, and it is a skillset that can benefit us in just about every aspect of life. There are two key parts to it: conceptualizing the thing you want to accomplish or create, and then taking effective actions to bring it to life. This can play out at the level of the individual, a team, an organization or at a societal level.

Of course, professional designers have been conceptualizing things and bringing them to life for a very long time. However, even they

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