The death of the Industrial Strategy Council is a positive step Last week, the UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, announced the dissolution of his department’s Industrial Strategy Council — a group of business leaders the government would tap for advice and ask to monitor its performance. The news was greeted with some dismay by…

Any explanation of trust that doesn’t explain Amazon or the Queen is not to be trusted — Trust is the social capital that allows civil society to function. Countries with high aggregate levels of trust trade more, embrace innovation more easily and require less regulation. …

I went on my first march back in 1992. I took the day off school to protest on behalf of Britain’s coal miners, whose pits faced another round of closures. I didn’t know anything about coal mining. I had never been anywhere near the pits or the villages that relied…

Our polarised political climate is partly the result of where we choose to live and who we choose to live with. Flight from major cities would burst bubbles that have been growing for decades San Francisco real estate marketplace Zillow reports that new listings are up nearly 100% as Bay…

Social networking technology will have the same polarising effects on company culture as it has had on the outside world As I write, Microsoft is embroiled in a public controversy that began as an internal argument about the company’s diversity strategy and which quickly found its way onto news media…

This article was written for the TBD Conference, taking place on December 6th at Here/East in London. We can fix politics from within We can all play a part in reversing the political and social polarisation that is making compromise, consensus and collaboration impossible. …

This is an edited version of the speech I gave at the launch of MHP’s Guide to The Networked Age, a response to a world of growing polarisation and tribalism, developed with Dr Tali Sharot and her team at The Affective Brain Lab: We are not here to wring our…

In an age when individuals can impact businesses as powerful as Starbucks, Disney or the Daily Mail, the importance of influencers is obvious. But if your first question is then ‘who are the influencers I need to worry about next?’ your approach to issues management is wrong. …

Like many professional experts, fund managers face a constant battle to convince people that they have what it takes to outperform the market. …