The first thirty-five years of CEE capitalism were about creating wealth. The next thirty-five will reveal whether we can perpetuate it. Central and Eastern Europe has...
Tag - Future of Work
How workplaces, talent, and careers are evolving
The taxi trade rarely answers ride-hailing with a better cab. Where it can, it answers with the statute book, and calls it fair competition. There are plenty of things...
Firms that document every role and keep the notes current gain resilience. Nobody, up to and including the chief, should be irreplaceable. Warren Buffett told...
Post-Brexit, millions of young Europeans want an English-taught degree. Central and Eastern Europe’s universities have an opportunity. In the often fierce but...
Nadya Zhexembayeva began discussing the need for Chief Reinvention Officers in 2015. A decade on, reinvention is more relevant than ever. Nadya Zhexembayeva was 14 when...
Immigrants increasingly back the parties that would have kept them out. The latest arrivals, it seems, are keenest to pull up the ladder. Backed by the hard-right...
As online users increasingly put questions to AI, not Google, publishers and businesses built on referral traffic are paying the dearest. Google became a...
A struggling firm reaches for artificial intelligence as it once reached for innovation. Neither saves a business the sums no longer favour. Lip-Bu Tan took charge of...
A record shortage of truck drivers is now throttling the world’s trade, and this time it will not fix itself when the economy turns. Umberto de Pretto, who runs...
The Last Word: One more client might buy some time, one more initiative may create some new energy, but neither is enough to save a company. Ask IT companies what is...
The Western Balkans IT sector has turned a difficult history into a key selling point, and clients are increasingly willing to pay for it. Three World Bank economists...
Britain promised to ban unpaid internships and has just thought better of it. The evidence says free labour buys almost no advantage at all. Jonathan Reynolds, then...
Fewer Europeans are eating out and margins are thin. Their way back runs through theatre, delivery and a smaller, cheaper table than before. Guido Zöllick got his tax...