The Last Word: Leadership alignment, behaviour, and talent matter far more than whether employees are merely experimenting with AI tools. For the past two years, the...
Tag - Reinvention
Stories of strategic transformation and bold new directions
Half of Europeans never use public transport. Freebies are an easy answer, but as some countries have found out, they don’t ease congestion. Eurostat published a...
The Last Word: The future belongs to those who fix what they once ignored, and build organisations that deliver innovation when it matters. For nearly two decades...
The Last Word: Leadership today requires courage to reinvent, to reimagine, and to retire assumptions before markets retire them for you. For the better part of the...
The darker side of digital nomadism. Our newfound ability to work from anywhere creates problems for nomads, locals, and policymakers alike. The laptop-toting, café...
The Last Word: We’re not entering the age of artificial intelligence. We’re re-entering the age of energy, this time with better marketing. Europe has spent much of...
What Italian espresso bars and their cheap coffee can teach businesses about keeping things simple: Do just one thing, and do it very well. Bardonecchia, an hour and a...
The case for institutionalising long-term thinking in government is growing, but the results of experiments carried out so far are mixed. The Welsh government’s...
The case for small, agile allies: Strategic realism for a paradigm of distributed deterrence, and the political opportunities it presents. There is a compelling and...
The Last Word: Work is no longer about location. Stop wasting time on debating where people work, and start deciding what human work is for. A few weeks ago, I listened...
The Last Word: Readiness beats past performance. It is still considered good management to hit your numbers. Revenue targets met, costs controlled, margins protected...
Europe throws billions at its defence sector. Ukraine’s kitchen-table innovators are already cashing in. Great news for Ukrainian housewives. The European Commission...
The Last Word: When predictability becomes the product. In a hall full of global executives in Beijing last week, the pitch was not what it used to be. No talk of...