Strategy is about making choices. The danger of not doing so, as pointed out so eloquently by Michael Porter, is being stuck in the middle. This is where we are now …
Sweden’s success shows the true cost of our arrogant, failed establishment
Allister Heath has written a scathing attack on the UK government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, published in the Daily Telegraph. Key points he makes are: Sweden got it largely …
Radical Uncertainty – John Kay and Mervyn King
This book, written by two economists, draws on biography, history, mathematics, economics and philosophy to explore successful and unsuccessful methods of dealing with an unknowable future. Economists and other business …
The impact of working from home.
There has been a lot of comment since the beginning of lockdown about the likelihood of the move away from office working, to a more flexible approach, becoming permanent. Some …
Schools must open
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/277/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/277/pub/277/page/63/article/58894 In this week’s Sunday Telegraph Julie Burchill wrote compellingly about the different views on how important it is for schools in the UK to reopen. The main points she …
Dysfunction starts with government
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/yes-michael-gove-there-is-dysfunction-in-government-it-starts-with-you-rlp8wkbxq?shareToken=008d92a7e0a6336fe016aac03a42420f Mathew Syed, whose book ‘Rebel Ideas’ I reviewed here recently, has an interesting piece in the Sunday Times this week. In a lecture last week Michael Gove argued that …
Lockdown could lead to another financial crisis
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/272/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/272/pub/272/page/111/article/54652 I totally agree with Mervyn King, previously Governor of the Bank of England, who taught me when I read Economics at Cambridge. In a piece by Liam Halligan …
The lockdown is widening the gap between rich and poor pupils
https://app.spectator.co.uk/2020/06/17/a-class-apart/content.html Lucy Kellaway is a British journalist who wrote for over 15 years for the Financial Times. She then trained to be a teacher and is co-founder of the …
Let’s never have another shutdown
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lets-never-have-another-shutdown-s0b6vng8b?shareToken=2e19c53b3684b4809d4a0df7fcfecca7 Luke Johnson, well known as a serial entrepreneur, including Pizza Express (hugely successful) and Patisserie Valerie (lees so), has a piece in the Sunday Times arguing the lockdown has …
Covid-19 could be the end of the office but the need to socialise remains.
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/245/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/245/pub/245/page/113/article/47023 Roger Bootle, the well-known economist, predicts that the crisis could spell the end of the office as we know it. On 10th March, shortly before the lockdown in the …