<ul class="summary-list"><li>Trump administration officials were far more fearful of COVID-19 in private than they were letting on in public, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.</li><li>In a February 25 address to board members of the conservative Hoover Institution, economic advisor Larry Kudlow said the virus was "contained in the US, to date, but now we just don't know."</li><li>Earlier in the day, Kudlow told CNBC: "We have contained this... It's pretty close to airtight."</li><li>The comments were recorded in a memo by one attendee, soon making their way to investors on Wall Street.</li></ul>On television, Larry Kudlow was optimistic. "We have contained this," President Donald Trump's top economic advisor said of the coronavirus. "I won't say 'airtight,' but it's pretty close to airtight."But hours after his Feb. 25 <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/25/larry-kudlow-says-us-has-contained-the-coronavirus-and-the-economy-is-holding-up-nicely.html">appearance on CNBC</a>, Kudlow's private remarks to a right-wing think tank were far more circumspect, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-investors.html?referringSource=articleShare">The New York Times reported Wednesday</a>. The virus, he said, was "contained in the US, to date, but now we just don't know."The comments to the board of the Hoover Institution, which Kudlow confirmed to The Times, were recorded in a memo by William Callanan, a hedge fund consultant who noted with alarm that Kudlow and other US officials who spoke to the gathering, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, brought up COVID-19 "as a point of concern, totally unprovoked."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1232058127740174339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2020</a></blockquote>In an email to David Tepper, founder of the Appaloosa Management hedge fund, Callanan noted that the president's economic advisor had just "revised his statement about the virus being contained."His attached memo was forwarded throughout the firm, The Times reported, and from there to others on Wall Street.Investors, The Times noted, were already selling off stocks at the time. But they understood the significance of administration officials appearing to support their fears: "The president's aides appeared to be giving wealthy party donors an early warning of a potentially impactful contagion at a time when Mr. Trump was publicly insisting that the threat was nonexistent," The Times explained.Have a news tip? Email this reporter: <a href="mailto:cdavis@insider.com">cdavis@insider.com</a>

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<ul><li>The number of <keyword id="1268253" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Robinhood">Robinhood</keyword> investors holding <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/kodk-stock?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingestgest">Kodak</a> stock spiked as the company's shares soared as much as 2,189% over two days this week.</li><li>Shares of the camera company <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/kodak-stock-price-surges-765-million-government-drug-loan-2020-7-1029444079">tore higher on Tuesday and Wednesday</a> after it said it received a $765 million government loan to make drug ingredients.</li><li>Before the loan was announced, about 9,300 Robinhood investors held <keyword id="96132" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kodak">Kodak</keyword> shares, <a href="https://robintrack.net/symbol/KODK">according to Robintrack.net</a>. By Wednesday at noon, that number had surged above 72,000.</li><li><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/kodk-stock?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingestgest">Watch Kodak trade live here</a>.</li></ul>The number of Robinhood investors holding <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/kodk-stock?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingestgest">Kodak</a> stock grew nearly eightfold from Tuesday morning to Wednesday afternoon amid the company's extraordinary rally.The stock <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/kodak-stock-price-surges-765-million-government-drug-loan-2020-7-1029444079">leaped to as high as $59.98</a> on Wednesday, bringing its two-day surge to 2,189% at its peak. Kodak shares began tearing higher on Tuesday afternoon after the company said it received a $765 million government loan to make drug ingredients during the coronavirus pandemic. The <a href="https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/dfc-sign-letter-interest-investment-kodaks-expansion-pharmaceuticals">announcement</a> drove an influx of investor cash to the stock.Much of the new interest came from Robinhood investors. Retail trading has <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/retail-investors-quarter-of-stock-market-coronavirus-volatility-trading-citadel-2020-7-1029382035">represented a larger share of stock-market activity</a> in recent months as casual traders look to capitalize on virus-fueled volatility.Kodak is the latest stock to benefit from the wave of new investors. Before the Tuesday announcement of Kodak's loan, roughly 9,300 Robinhood traders held the stock, <a href="https://robintrack.net/symbol/KODK">according to Robintrack.net</a>. By noon on Wednesday, that number was above 72,000. Roughly half of the increase happened over just two hours on Wednesday.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stock-picks-sectors-to-buy-us-china-trade-war-gionnotto-2020-7">A market-research expert breaks down the 3 sectors and 4 stocks that are best to own as a new Cold War between the US and China heats up</a>No other stock came close to garnering the same attention on Robinhood through morning trading. The next-most-bought stock over the past 24 hours, Heat Biologics, saw just 6% of the activity that Kodak enjoyed over the same period.Similar buying sprees have taken place on Robinhood this year. After <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/htz-stock?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingestgest">Hertz</a> announced its bankruptcy in late May, retail traders flooded the stock with cash in hopes that it would miraculously avoid insolvency. The car-rental company rallied more than 900% over nine days, and the share of Robinhood investors holding Hertz shares nearly tripled.Kodak traded at $37.79 per share as of 1:15 p.m. ET, up 808% year-to-date.Now read more <keyword id="31671" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="markets">markets</keyword> coverage from Markets Insider and Business Insider:<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/amd-q2-earnings-stock-price-leaps-earnings-win-strong-guidance-2020-7-1029445905">AMD surges 12% after trouncing quarterly estimates and snagging market share from rivals</a><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tesla-stock-downgraded-bernstein-mind-boggling-rally-target-price-lowered-2020-7-1029440566">Bernstein downgrades Tesla and says the stock will tank 42% from its 'mind-boggling' valuation</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-invest-in-stocks-credit-commodities-for-economic-recovery-2020-7">3 Wall Street pros managing $12 billion in assets share their strategies for profiting from the economy's recovery — and explain why investors should be aggressively taking risks now</a>

More than 63,000 Robinhood traders piled into Kodak shares during its 2,100% rally

<ul class="summary-list"><li>I found my grandparents' love letters when cleaning out their house.</li><li>Reading them gave me insight into what dating was like 100 years ago.</li></ul>When my 89-year-old grandmother moved out of her home, I was tasked with going through her personal belongings. I didn't know where to start. Her house was small and tidy, but she had no use for <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/minimalist-lifestyle-can-optimize-creativity-2019-2">minimalism</a> like I did. She'd kept everything.I began in her bedroom. The dresser was overflowing with scarves, jewelry, and empty perfume bottles. It took me all day to go through six drawers. But tucked away securely in a string-wrapped envelope was a stack of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ben-affleck-jennifer-lopez-this-is-me-now-songwriters-2024-2">love letters</a> my grandfather wrote to her when they were dating. These treasured notes from the 1920s were fragile and falling apart — and a time capsule of what dating was like 100 years ago.<h2>I read all the letters with my grandmother's blessing</h2>Watching my own two kids navigate <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dating-in-30s-vs-20s-different-2024-1">dating in their 20s</a>, my grandparents would be amazed at their constant access to one another and ability to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/see-husband-location-tracking-obsession-divorce-2024-3">track each other's location</a>. But there's something to be said for opening a letter in the mail and seeing a loved one's handwriting. For perspective, my grown kids raised in the digital age don't know how to address an envelope.Judging from the letters I read (with my grandmother's blessing), they wrote to each other daily, hustling to get to the Post office in time to make the next day's mail. My grandfather mentions a time he "made five trips to the Post office for that one letter," today's equivalent of picking up our phone every five minutes to check for a text.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/apple-watch-facetime">FaceTime</a> would've been inconceivable, and phone calls were expensive. Since they lived 30 miles apart — she in San Marcos, Texas, and he in Austin (which in one letter he predicted "will be a city someday"), seeing each other was a challenge. It involved long bus rides or, when he was employed as a steel worker in Fort Worth, transfers and a train ride on the Texas Special through Waco.One Sunday night, my grandfather missed the bus <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-austin-mover-single-millennial-renters-making-76000-a-year-2024-2">back to Austin</a> — Uber would have been a dream come true — and spent a restless night in a cold horse stall. He was late for work the next day, but his boss let it slide because he could tell "this man is in love."<h2>I learned about history and what their lives were like</h2>Postmarked 1923 and 1924, most began with an endearment like "My dearest little dear" or simply, "My dear Alice." This cache of letters not only allowed me a glimpse into their young lives but was a much more engrossing account of history than any book I'd ever read. He wrote of strikes, fear of unemployment, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-1920s-100-years-ago-2020">prohibition</a>, and how much he missed her.Some facets of life in the 1920s are relatable today. He always asked her for pictures ("in the black dress you showed me" or "in your new swimsuit") and finally bought her a Kodak camera so she could take photos of herself. He sent off for a Sears Roebuck catalog so he could mail-order medicine. And he eventually found a place for them to live once they were married near a Piggly Wiggly grocer "so we won't have to tote the groceries far."<div type="image" title="The author with her grandparents" height="2540" width="3627" msid="109274629" hostid="261" sizebytes="326146"></div>As <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/i-liked-being-an-only-child-as-adult-hate-it-2022-8">an only child</a>, I'm struck by the privilege of seeing this intimate side of my heritage. I know how it ended — my grandparents sitting at their Formica kitchen table, watching the hummingbirds and sharing the daily newspaper — but what a gift to see how it began.Life may be easier now, but it was simpler then. I saved notes my husband wrote me when we were dating, but my kids and their friends don't communicate this way anymore. Love letters, written in cursive and sealed with a kiss, may truly be a relic of the past.

I read my grandparents' love letters from the 1920s. It was a gift to see how their relationship began.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Khloé Kardashian called her 30s "the worst decade ever" in an Instagram story video Saturday.</li><li>She made the declaration while showing fans some of her 39th birthday gifts. </li></ul>Just days after her 39th birthday, <a href="https://www.insider.com/kris-jenner-fast-food-kim-kardashian-khloe-in-n-out-2023-6">Khloé Kardashian</a> shared that her 30s were "the worst decade ever" on her Instagram stories Saturday.Kardashian, who celebrated her birthday on June 27, made the revelation in a video displaying some of her birthday gifts.<div type="image" title="A screenshot from Khloé Kardashian's Instagram story." height="1056" width="592" msid="101437935" hostid="261" sizebytes="35908"></div>"I don't love showing all my gifts because I think it's sort of obnoxious, but this one was too funny," Kardashian said at the start of her story. "I hate being in my 30s. I think it's the worst decade ever, and I cannot wait to be in my 40s."She also showed fans a card she received with the number 39, an illustration of a middle finger, some sparkly claw clips, pens, and a blinged-out passport cover.One clip was bedazzled with the word "bunny," which Kardashian says is a nickname given to her by Kris Jenner.According to her previous story, the gifts were from Alexa Brenman, a director at Kardashian Jenner Communications, <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=b355db118b5214a2527b7f6a381431415d86b11d47dee4d9011ace1e56a2c934&amp;postID=64a187e022f2a96c74386fb3&amp;site=in&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Falexa-brenman-okyle-37844349%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per her LinkedIn page</a>. <div type="image" title="A screenshot from Khloé Kardashian's Instagram story." height="1050" width="584" msid="101437936" hostid="261" sizebytes="48048"></div>"Alexa you are too funny!" Kardashian wrote on a photo of the gifts. Kardashian's 3os have played out in front of reality TV cameras on both her E! reality series, <a href="https://www.insider.com/keeping-up-with-the-kardashians-facts-2018-2">"Keeping Up with the Kardashians,"</a> and the family's Hulu show, "The Kardashians."Cameras have followed her family for almost two decades, including her divorce from ex-Laker Lamar Odom and her on-and-off relationship with <a href="https://www.insider.com/timeline-khloe-kardashian-tristan-thompson-relationship-2019-7">Tristan Thompson</a>, with whom she shares two children: True, 5, and Tatum, 11 months. In a previous story Saturday, Kardashian also showed a group of gifts she received from Terrell Watson, an assistant at Kardashian Jenner Communications, <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=f6a7919120252a336fb7b7bb1f6716466eab3daf60f9a403e1a4c5d84075a802&amp;postID=64a187e022f2a96c74386fb3&amp;site=in&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fterrell-watson%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per LinkedIn.</a><div type="image" title="A screenshot from Khloé Kardashian's Instagram story." height="1060" width="594" msid="101437937" hostid="261" sizebytes="42854"></div>Watson, who Kardashian called "the cutest" in her story, gave the reality star a T-shirt with a photo of her <a href="https://www.insider.com/kris-jenner-framed-khloe-kardashian-mugshot-dui-2022-10"> 2007 DUI mugshot,</a> a Kodak camera, and some film.In a follow-up snap on her story, Kardashian gushed over a colorful bouquet sent to her by Kourtney Kardashian's ex, Scott Disick.<div type="image" title="Khloé Kardashian's Instagram story." height="1046" width="594" msid="101437938" hostid="261" sizebytes="73528"></div>"I love you @letthelordbewithyou More than you know," Kardashian captioned the photo.

Khloé Kardashian calls her 30s 'the worst decade ever' and showed fans her bedazzled birthday gifts on Instagram

<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/57576863.cms" /> Growing up in an India that has just opened up its liberalization of policies, <keyword id="96132" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Kodak">Kodak</keyword> was a household dream. Urban Indians who are fond of traveling would own a Kodak camera to make their experiences memorable. Undoubtedly a big brand in photography and camera, Kodak had taken a backseat recently with too many photography pages popping up through the social media in India. While Kodak has always maintained its lead in the B2B market, the B2C market in India was waiting for more surprises in the product line. And it has actually turned out true. And the surprise from Kodak is totally wild. While you were thinking of lens, cameras and something related, Kodak has just come out with its wide range of LED TVs. 
 The new head-turner in the field of personal gadgets, LED TVs is of utmost importance. Be it <keyword id="128682" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Netflix">Netflix</keyword> and Chill or playing your favourite game of PlayStation, the new India desperately needs a TV. And what better than state of art technology combined with sleek look and of course at a budget price? It seems, Kodak having played it like <keyword id="4277091" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="rahul-dravide">Rahul Dravide</keyword> (slow and steady) have understood the Indian market better than anybody else. 
 Kodak has tied up with <keyword id="4277092" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="super-plastronics-ltd">Super Plastronics Ltd</keyword> for production and marketing of Kodak TVs in India. Kodak's smart TVs are available online and a 50 inch costs Rs 39,000, which is way less than other able competitors. 
 
If data is to be believed, India is expected to become the fifth largest consumer durables market on a global level by 2025. The consumer durables industry is projected to double at 14.8% CAGR to reach approximately USD 12.5 billion in FY15 from USD 6.3 billion in FY10. The improving living standards have made the need for electronics consumer durables a must in the Indian household. The changing environmental dynamics, urbanization and rising income levels are driving the growth of this segment that was once inhibited by the high price point. The Indian television market is shifting from the traditional cathode ray tube (<keyword id="431185" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="CRT">CRT</keyword>) technology to LED, LCD and Plasma televisions. Some leading players have officially stopped the production of CRT televisions and are now concentrating on LED TV’s. 
 Avneet Singh <keyword id="18683" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="marwah">Marwah</keyword>, CEO/Director, Super Plastronics Pvt. Ltd (SPPL) spoke exclusively to <keyword id="824043" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Business-Insider">Business Insider</keyword> and shared the inside stories. 
 
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CRT MUKT Bharat 
“We also plan to initiate a social awareness program by the name of CRT MUKT Bharat. The CRT market is valued at almost 1/3rd of the LED market in India and the price gap between the two is considerable. With the rural population looking to upgrade themselves, we see a greater demand from rural areas as well. Experts say although sales of LCD and LED TV sets have grown 28 per cent annually in the last five years, flat panel TVs are yet to replace CRTs completely,” Marwah told Business Insider. 
 
Why Budget TVs? 
“We believe in paying for what you get, hence our televisions are priced according to the technology provided therein. Moreover, we chose to keep the price a budget one as we look to approach the masses and make our television available to all,” said Marwah. 
 
Future products 
Kodak plans to introduce 55 and 65 inch smart televisions in the coming year as well televisions with 4K technology.

Kodak is all set to disrupt the consumer durable market in India. Here's how

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54ef7e7aecad04196486bcc7-1200-1500/homemakers pb c.jpg" border="0" alt="brit morin">Chris AndreThe cover of "Homemakers," Brit Morin's new book.</img></div></div></div>In the introduction to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Homemakers-Domestic-Handbook-Digital-Generation/dp/0062332503">her new book, "Homemakers,"</a> Brit Morin says she never expected to be undertaking such a big writing project."After all, I come from the digital generation. You know, the generation that prefers Instagram to Kodak cameras and can't focus on anything for longer than two minutes. The generation of which 72% downloaded at least one app in the past week," she writes."Yes, that generation." As a former employee of both Apple and Google, Morin is thoroughly entrenched in the tech world of Silicon Valley. Her husband, Dave Morin, is a former Facebook employee and the founder of social networking app Path. Brit's personal brand, however, is best defined as a blend between the digital and analog worlds.She's the founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.brit.co/">Brit + Co.</a>, a DIY content and ecommerce site that's <a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brit">scored $7.6 million</a> in funding from Index Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Marissa Meyer, and Oak Investment Partners. Brit + Co. features fun articles, recipes, tutorials and even online classes that teach skills like knitting, hand-lettering, and 3D printing.Her book, which was published by HarperCollins' William Morrow Paperbacks imprint and officially hits shelves Tuesday, has more of the same content, with each chapter addressing a different room in the home. "So for example, you take the kitchen. I look at what has happened over the past decade - the way we cook, the way we entertain, and how that has evolved with technology," Morin told Business Insider. She added that home automation and the Internet of Things will have an enormous effect on people's definition of home. "I'm not sure people fully realize how advanced our homes are becoming," she said. "This is the new reality as of today, and it's only going to advance more."After Morin left her product marketing job at Google in 2011, she joined TechShop, a studio in San Francisco where you can pay a monthly fee for access to 3D printers, woodworking equipment, silk screening machines, and laser cutters. "I started taking classes and got obsessed. I loved that all you needed to know was how to design it online, then send it to print," she said. "It's exciting to see the intersection of creativity and technology play out in real life."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54edf8c869bedd303b6d7e15-905-679/techshop-1.jpg" border="0" alt="techshop"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/9X8pPr">svacher / Flickr</a></img></div></div></div>Morin had officially joined the Maker movement, a name given to the use of new technology to create and build things. "The Maker movement is really just a new definition for a cultural shift that has been happening for decades," Morin said. "I like to use this example. At first people thought it was cheating to use cake mix instead of baking from scratch, but sales were soaring, so there was obviously demand for it. It was the same with the microwave, icebox, and the iPhone."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_left"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54f0e7a469bedd4f6ed7a420-1200-2000/kitchen_brit_201_b-1.jpg" border="0" alt="brit morin">Chris Andre</img></div></div></div>Most projects in her book - tassel garlands, patterned tea towels, swirled cakes - aren't too time-intensive.But with others, like a gadget-charging nightstand that requires using a charging mat and router, Morin shows off some of her Maker skills.That combination of craftiness and tech has led some people dub her the "Martha Stewart of Silicon Valley." She says she's flattered by the comparison."It's definitely a huge compliment," Morin said. "She's really nice."While brainstorming a title for her book, Morin found that some considered the word "homemaker" a derogatory term. She says that's because the term has carried a different meaning for previous generations of women, some more positive than others."Our grandmothers' generation was kind of forced to stay home and be a homemaker. For our mothers' generation, women were leaving the home and working," Morin said. "Now women have the choice, and it's OK to do both, and they want to do both."Morin knows firsthand just how difficult that can be. She had her first child, a boy named Ansel, in October. "I do prescribe to outsourcing certain services. I don't go grocery shopping - I use Blue Apron and Foraged for ingredients," she said. "I love having free afternoons to paint or 3D print. 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Brit Morin, the Martha Stewart of Silicon Valley, explains what it means to be a homemaker in the digital age

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/554b9cf06bb3f77641881fc6-1200-924/sara-blakely-24.jpg?maxX=600" border="0" alt="Sara Blakely" width="600">Fernando Leon/Getty ImagesSara Blakely, founder of Spanx.</img></div></div>Much can change in five years.In the last half-decade, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions have crumbled nations and bankrupted major financial institutions.The gale winds of creative destruction toppled iconic brands and created new ones.Uber became the world's largest taxi company without owning a single vehicle, and Alibaba became the largest retailer without owning inventory.As the pace of change continues to accelerate, leaders must play the long game to succeed in 2020 and beyond. This means thinking long term, focusing on customer needs and embracing new models. All good advice, but incremental improvements and hard work alone won't cut it.The most successful leaders envision a bold future and then make it happen. Real leaders are not just along for the ride - they shape the future by thinking big.On a practical level, our research with 30,000 executives around the world reveals the foundation for 2020 leadership lies in strengthening six fundamental behaviors that are essential to being truly strategic.Successful leaders know how to:<h3>1. Anticipate by seeing sooner and scanning wider.</h3>Leaders must constantly prepare for what's coming next to get ahead of change. Most people recognize the value in looking ahead; however, those who anticipate well also look sideways to the periphery where disruption often begins.Just consider how the intersection of new technologies gave rise to Amazon, Uber and 3D Systems before they became mainstream. In the future, leaders will be challenged to not just recognize these forces - think 3D printing, robotics, infinite computing and genomics - but also to leverage them in innovative ways to disrupt and transform industries.<h3>2. Challenge the status quo.</h3>Complacency is a surefire way to lose the long game; the status quo is dead-end street. Long-term oriented leaders constantly question the assumptions of their business model and reinvent themselves as a result. Create internal groups like the "Pixar Braintrust" where diverse teams candidly criticize projects on a regular basis.As co-founder of Pixar, Ed Catmull says, "Put smart, passionate people in a room together, charge them with identifying and solving problems, and encourage them to be candid."In 2020, the need to challenge deeply will be heightened due to greater difficulty differentiating oneself in a more connected, competitive world. You will be competing against the global best, not just the local elite.<h3>3. Interpret and connect the dots.</h3>A growing demand for data scientists, fueled by the buzz around big data and the value of algorithms, will make savvy analytics merely table stakes for 2020. With new apps and technologies collecting a deluge of information, leaders must be adept at digging beneath the surface, amplifying anomalies and finding hidden connections to gain fresh insights.DuPont's CEO, Charles Holliday, for example, connected multiple seemingly random data points, such as DuPont hotel reservation rates, auto production schedules and behaviors of his Japanese customers, to see the imminent financial crisis of 2008 well before his peers. Similarly, Target used data mining to turn expecting mothers into a very loyal customer segment.<div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/554ba5bf6bb3f7d47079244b-1200-924/101953793.jpg" border="0" alt="charles holliday" width="800">Alex Wong/Getty ImagesCharles Holliday, former chairman of DuPont.</img></div></div><h3>4. Decide and take courageous action.</h3>Given the complexity of information as we head toward 2020, leaders must analyze multiple paths forward - and then spring into action without being paralyzed. GoPro founder Nick Woodman created a convenient waterproof camera for surfers after trying a makeshift model for his own use.It consisted of a Kodak camera tied to his wrist with a broken surfboard leash. After exploring numerous ways to realize his vision, he spent 18-hour days working on his prototype, and today is a leading force in the camera market.<h3>5. Align people around innovative ideas.</h3>Pixar's "morning after" debrief meeting, as well as Amazon's "two pizza rule" for ensuring manageable team size are designed to focus teams on idea generation and relentless product improvement. The premise is that both alignment and innovation come from creative tension and cross-fertilization, with no holds barred.This approach will be ever more important as leaders need to embrace diverse perspectives and bridge differences to find the best solutions. As Hala Moddelmog, former president of Arby's Restaurant Group, says, "You really don't need another you."<h3>6. Learn by experimenting and turning failure into opportunity.</h3>Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, loved that her father would often ask, "What have you failed at this week?" Learning early on that the essence of failure is not trying, rather than a bad outcome, she developed the perseverance to build a billion-dollar empire.This is the core of Google's moonshots designed to pursue radical future breakthroughs. Although few will succeed, leaders have to embrace experimentation to promote transformation. Evolving the Agile Methodology beyond software development, Google X learns from successes and failures to determine how to adjust and where to make big bets through rapid and rigorous feedback cycles.The year 2020 will be here sooner and be far more different than we think. Strategic leaders can't predict the future, but they can shape it and prepare to seize the boundless possibilities that lie ahead. The skills, values and mindsets reflected in the above six building blocks are what it will take for leaders to win in 2020 and beyond.The concepts and examples in this article were adapted from "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Long-Game-Strategic-Leaders/dp/161039447X">Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future</a>" by Steven Krupp and Paul J.H. Schoemaker (PublicAffairs, 2014).Steven Krupp is senior managing partner, Paul J.H. Schoemaker is founder and executive chairman, and Franklin Shen is a senior consultant at <a href="http://www.DecisionStrat.com.">Decision Strategies International</a>, a consulting and training firm specializing in leadership development and strategy formulation located in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-burpee-full-body-workout-2015-3">This simple exercise will work out every muscle in your body</a></h3> <div> <div> <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="lyeGY3dDqIOrfWUeyzqcSzvAuvKi9t3n" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> <script> if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; } RunFunctions.push(function() { var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'lyeGY3dDqIOrfWUeyzqcSzvAuvKi9t3n',{ autoplay: 'false' }); }); </script> <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div> </div> <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script> </div>

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