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On the German love of predictability

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Jörg Luyken
Mar 08, 2023
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Dear Reader,

There is a word in German that, for the life of me, I can’t find any real equivalent for in English. Planungssicherheit is easy enough to translate - it means “planning certainty.” But it doesn’t seem to actually be used in English beyond in some industry magazines.

Not so in German. Planungssicherheit is a w…

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