By 
Mark Modesti
 | 
TED Institute Talk

The argument for trouble

In ten years, 40% of today's Fortune 500 companies on the S&P will be gone. Why? Mark Modesti argues it's because they fail to embrace trouble. A professional troublemaker and Customer Solutions Executive, Modesti uses examples from business, his personal life, and Abraham Lincoln to show why we need to embrace the trouble we ache to escape – before it hunts us down.

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