Great Disruption or Big Shift? – You Decide
I have long been a fan of Thomas Friedman – his books ‘The World is Flat’ (2005) and ‘Hot Flat and Crowded’ (2008) both provided superb insight into what was actually happening to drive change in the world. And his latest book ‘That Used to be Us: What went wrong with America’ (2011) is similarly riveting reading. I will write further on this in due course. However it was an article he wrote in the International herald Tribune this week that really caught my eye – great reading on the world today. Enjoy…
So What’s Changed?
Two weeks ago I was in the UK facilitating a strategic review session. The client is an organisation in the financial services market and I began by asking the the simple question: ‘So what has changed over the last 6 months?’ To my shock, the answer from around the room was “Not much…’
On throwing around some thoughts into what I thought was change with regards to the global financial markets, the discussion delved deeper and the response slowly shifted to ‘Well…I guess things are changing…’
Don’t always trust the Experts…
We make important decisions every day – and we often rely on experts to help us decide. But, says economist Noreena Hertz, relying too much on experts can be limiting and even dangerous. She calls for us to start democratizing expertise – to listen not only to “surgeons and CEOs, but also to shop staff.”
How Climate Change will Affect the Insurance Industry
The news is frequently racked with catastrophic stories about one natural disaster after the next. In recent months we have seen a Tsunami flood Japan, the ‘worst hurricane in the world’ sweep across America and several earthquakes in Argentina as well as China. The natural world has devastated man made constructions, cities and countries in swift succession, and will only continue to do so as climate change evolves. But the question that many people are asking is who will foot the bill?
3 Undeniable Strategic Realities
The three undeniable strategic realities for successful strategic development and approach.
Beware of the Online ‘Filter Bubbles’
In this TED Talk, Eli Pariser argues that citizens of the web need to be careful about getting trapped in a ‘filter bubble’. Explaining how the tailoring of online services to personal tastes will reduce exposure to information that challenges and broadens our worldview, Pariser warns how this could potentially be bad for us as well as democracy.
Hard Work vs Long Work
An insightful article by Seth Godin on the difference between Hard Work and Long Work.
Is your degree and education or a brand?
An interesting post by Seth Godin on student debt in the USA. It is crazy to think that there is more debt on university loans that credit cards, particularly if you connect the dots on the US financial statistics…
David Brooks: The social animal
Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences — insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can’t hope to understand humans as separate individuals making choices based on their conscious awareness.
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