From the monthly archives: July 2010
Those of you who are regular readers of my blog will be familiar with my view that the real impact of any recession is felt when the economists call the recession over. It’s only after a recession is technically closed that the real driving forces of change (I’m talking primarily political and socio-demographic drivers here) [...]
Arguably two books, published over the last twenty years, have made a profound impact on the way that business leaders see the future world. One is Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man[1] arguing that western-based liberal democracy will spread across the globe. The other is Friedman’s The World is Flat [2] making [...]
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