Adaptable Quote by Henry Mintzberg

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“When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.”

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The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.

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