As most of you know, I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of the business world from less than conventional angles. One of the most popular arguments that I hear supporting the mainstream view that the world is moving in one stoppable direction – the creation of […]
An Admission and Pandora’s Box Earlier this month, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, called for looser deficit reduction deadlines for Greece and issued a cautionary note regarding the relentless pursuit of ‘austerity’ policies. However, what will prove to be the historically most important point she […]
The news is understandably full of the continuing saga of the ‘Euro Crisis’, focusing on Greece and whether or not we face a ‘Grexit’ (isn’t it amusing how these new words appear in times of crisis) and more economic contagion. This is an important debate, but we must not see […]
Nothing like an attention grabbing headline. But there is a very serious issue here. In today’s FT, Gideon Rachman puts forward a very good argument as to why there is no alternative but austerity for Europe, see No Alternative to Austerity. Rachman paints a picture of the vice that now grips Europe, and it […]
Get a group of people in a room and ask them what the drivers of change are – the forces that could reshape the world we live in. I would hazard a guess that the list of change drivers that we would generate would be headed up by: Climate change […]