William Sieghart, who founded the Forward prizes in 1991, said the writers on the shortlists "bring news that stays news, in fresh and startling language", and that their voices "remind readers that, in an age of shortened attention spans, good poetry can communicate insights and visions with a power other art forms can only envy".
Out-of-the-Box: Brigitte Frank is an independent management consultant for SMEs... Alex Adamopoulos Chief Executive Officer, Emergn Limited will be moderating the September 7th conference in Zurich to communicate insights, encourage collaboration and create value around the important topics to be discussed.
The Social and Economic Update was created as a way to share recent publications and communicate insights and lessons learned from colleagues across the organization.
This includes the need to reshape large amounts of data, organize data beyond the flat table format, perform natural language processing on unstructed text or create visualizations of multidimensional data as a means of communicating insights.
As research continues in these fields, directing our efforts toward communicating insights, creating interdisciplinary teams that use citizen science to tackle wicked problems, and improving coordination among investments in citizen science are actions likely to have the greatest impact.
But given the complexity of the problems under investigation, communicating insights from research to a broader public will always present a challenge.
And it's a two way street: leadership needs to show more curiosity and care about understanding their patrons' behavior and those on the front lines need to be more concise in communicating insights about how patrons' behavior is changing.
They were meant to communicate the insight that interrupting the ceaseless round of striving requires a surprisingly strenuous act of will, one that has to be bolstered by habit as well as by social sanction.
More sophisticated approaches are needed, focused on communicating insight into personal risks and on modifying social norms.
If they learn lessons, experience emotions, gain insights into questions larger than themselves and communicate those insights to an audience, it has a much greater effect on that audience than any political diatribe, no matter how brilliant.
