Governments in rich countries are pushing up the cost of hiring despite possible alternatives for raising revenue not being in short supply. In December 2025 Rainer...
Tag - Reinvention
Stories of strategic transformation and bold new directions
The Last Word: AI’s next battle is not the model, but the organisation. From ‘What can the model do?’ to ‘What can the organisation absorb?’ For the past few years...
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...
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...