McGuinness Institute Events
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March 2020
TalentNZ: Creating a place where talent wants to live speaking tour
In March 2020 we will be travelling New Zealand with some of the TalentNZ interviewees, discussing ideas on how we might move towards a talent-based economy. Our aim is to contribute to a conversation about how New Zealand might grow, attract, retain and connect talent – four themes that are apparent throughout the TalentNZ Journal. The primary aim of the tour is to facilitate informal meetings between city councils and some of the 30 interviewees with a view to discuss how their city might grow, attract, retain and connect talent.
In addition, we hope to work with universities and other interested organisations in running a public event that enables a wider discussion on talent. Working on the unique needs and characteristics of each community, we hope that this wider discussion might act as an impetus for the sharing of ideas and people that can take those ideas and make them happen – delivering a talent-based economy.
If you would like to join us or help organise a speaking event or TalentNZ drinks please join the TalentNZ network.
Mid-2020
AntifragileNZ: Designing our future through film
The Institute has begun planning its fifth workshop AntifragileNZ, where young New Zealanders will create videos and animations that explore New Zealand’s long-term future. The Institute’s goal is to ensure that the public is better informed about how to make New Zealand ‘antifragile’, so that we can not only withstand but benefit from shocks and uncertainties. As Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains in his book Antifragile, ‘Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better’.
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Other Events of Interest
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