Category : big-ideas

Another year of Zoom meetings: Have they helped or harmed?
Another year of Zoom meetings: Have they helped or harmed?

We now have a wonderful opportunity to expand thoughtful deliberations on global problems, and accelerate the process of collective learning, using the internet, Zoom, and other platforms. And together find solutions that make the whole system healthy

The games we play with each other
The games we play with each other

Solutions for problems such as climate change are unlikely to come from experts who rely on numbers, and from economists who rely on self-interest and the invisible hand for progress. This is part of a zero sum, competitive, narrative. But nature is complex and insists on cooperation

A Letter from London

The dark side of the China Story
The dark side of the China Story

From his perch in The City, a leading strategic analyst who prefers the pen name Samuel Pepys, looks at what’s shifting at the intersection of business, markets, economy and society. In this letter: a global supply crunch; an imploding credit-driven economic model; a new economic playbook