Coming: History’s Longest Unemployment Line?

Coming: History’s Longest Unemployment Line?

Given the ris­ing fear of tech­nol­o­gy replac­ing work­ers, I shared my thoughts on “The Future of Human Work Is Imag­i­na­tion, Cre­ativ­i­ty, and Strat­e­gy” [link] as a recent post for Har­vard Busi­ness Review (@HarvardBiz). I not­ed that many have...
The Future of Driving Is Electric

The Future of Driving Is Electric

Peter Valdes-Dape­na (@peterdrives) report­ed yes­ter­day that the end is com­ing for petrol-pow­ered ver­hi­cles. “A num­ber of coun­tries around the world are look­ing to move away from fuel-burn­ing auto­mo­biles. India, France, Britain and Nor­way all want to...
Are humans really necessary?

Are humans really necessary?

It was two days of great minds exchang­ing thoughts about sus­tain­able lead­er­ship, man­age­ment, inno­va­tion — and tech­nol­o­gy. It hap­pened in War­saw on 26 – 27 April, and I was both a keynote speak­er and one of 61 peo­ple on six pan­els dis­cussing...

Mangled By Attention Spangles

Many today do not have an extensive attention span. Instead, they have “attention spangles”. Their attention span is as small as a sequin, sometimes glittering with brilliance but, in the main, only a brief reflection of someone else’s intellectual...

Turning Entrepreneurship Upside Down

Newton Campos, a good friend who lives in São Paulo, Brazil, is one of those rare people who is at home in both the business world and academe. He’s executive vice-director of the Private Equity and Venture Capital Research Center at FGV-SP — and...

Intimidated? Terrified? Prepared?

You can get there from here. I’m speaking of the future, which many managers and leaders I meet seem to consider far more of a threat than an opportunity. There’s a reason for that. Any athlete, artist, health provider, politician or scientist who —...