¶ … Fashion Reflection on waves of innovation and predicting the future

The article delves into the concept of possibility of predicting what future trends would look like and the different methods or approaches that could be used to arrive at the conclusion of a possible future trend. The writer displays thorough understanding of the trends and fashions over the different historical period and the factors that relate to the changes. The article outlines the different historical interventions from the 1850s that contributed to the shaping of trends and fashions globally.

With the eloquent discussion of the various waves of fashion and trends, the writer convinces the readers that it is possible to use such past facts to predict a possibility of some given trend in the future. One outstanding aspect of the article and the way it discusses the trends is that it does not shy away from all forms of approaches to his subject, both scientific and non-scientific means of predicting the future. The writer was also keen to demonstrate how the different waves of trends and fashions affected each other and even how some overlapped and also gave preambles to the next trend.

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I also learned that technology has been central to trends over the years, a factor that is perpetuated even in the present times.
Reflection on Fads and Fashion

The author analyses the various types of management approaches that are commonly used in running organization in the contemporary society. He first points out that fads and fashions just have symbolic appeal but nothing practical in their application. Of significance here is the fact that the author goes through the many types of strongly adored management approaches and discusses them with a critical perspective.

The author captured my attention by the fact that he first outlines the tenets of the particular approach, then shows how it is often implemented then turns around to buffet the universally held beliefs on the theories and even goes ahead to give examples of organizations or managers that have used them and failed. This opened up my eyes to the fact that these…