After Milton Friedman famously proposed that the sole purpose of business enterprises should be to maximise shareholder value in an article in the New York…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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A few days before the so-called Pestminster scandal began to bubble up, a picture of a famous piece of embroidery appeared on Sarah’s Facebook account….
That’s a big number. Probably too big for anyone to comprehend. It’s more than three times global GDP. And it’s the amount of outstanding global…
This post first appeared as a column in Town & Country Planning magazine… When I bought my house a few years ago, on the edge…
The news yesterday that the doom-laden trade dispute, between the giant American planemaker Boeing and its small Canadian rival Bombardier, may have been resolved only…
Electric cars – in fact electric everything – is pushed by the environmental movement as one vital part of the solution to climate change. True,…
The 2017 Conservative Party general election manifesto was a departure in many ways from the Thatcherism that had been the party’s outward ideological core for the…
Business scandals keep coming thick and fast. The banks, BHS and the disappearing pensions, mis-selling of mortgages and other financial products, the VW deliberate cheating…
It is almost ten years since the publication of one of my best books (I have to say this myself!). It was called Toward the Setting…
I am sitting in a conference listening to a presentation by Luc Tissot, the current CEO of the Tissot watch company in Switzerland. He points…
Don’t let’s carp about the way that government has developed in the UK – there is no doubt that, in two ways in particular, they…
They all wanted a change from what they were doing. They wanted to be more useful. “I’d like to leave something better behind me than…