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The iron law of business-as-usual: What is it and can we escape it?

Nicholas Gruen
December 17, 2020June 12, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfrDNgDL1Dk Here's a presentation to the annual Communities in Control conference run by the amazing outfit Our Community established in the 1990s by Denis Moriarty...

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