Gronkski

Say Gonski, think education.
Actually it’s a bloke, some wrinkly old school dude in the Australian corporate world, former lawyer (what else).
A self proclaimed genius and oracle it seems.
By happenchance I just managed to see a video of him talking about innovation.
Oh my god, it is awful.
He says that Australians have an ‘institutionalised’ fear of failure, which is why we aren’t innovative as a nation.
His evidence is a couple of anecdotes of very poor quality.
Obviously he never studies logic or any school of rational thinking at uni.
The truth is that collectively we are just a little too comfortable to be innovative.
And we focus all of our gambling genes on shit like the horses, the dogs, the footy and the lottery.
In other words, our collective and individual greed and stupidity are well misdirected,
There is no fix for this because these are lifelong habits that are virtually impossible to unlearn.
The best solution is to get everyone to move onto the next buzzword after “innovation” – “agile” seems like a good pick.
Means nothing and is sort of techie, it being a word used by software types.
However, I wonder if the Gronk might have stumbled onto something?
If (if!) it exists, is our fear of risk related to our love of rent seeking?
Hard to prove otherwise I would guess. Its the unknowable, unless you are a journo, a rent seeker (of the higher grade), or a politician.