May 16, 2012
People get awfully excited about quotas. So do countries. After Norway's lead in 2008, gender quotas on corporate boards have been rolling out in a whole series of countries: Spain, then France, the Netherlands, even Italy voted them in. EU Commissioner Viviane Reding is pushing hard, and if she has her say, and if companies continue to make so little progress unassisted, quotas are likely...
May 4, 2012
After more than 18 months, a dozen and a half summits, multiple rounds of austerity, a trillion dollars of liquidity, and now elections in Greece and France that threaten to overturn the fragile policy consensus in Europe, the Euro-crisis rumbles on. How it could end, badly, with a bank run through the European bond market or the collapse of confidence around Greece, Spain or Italy, is well understood. What is less well understood is how to resolve it.
Eurobonds, fiscal treaties,...
April 24, 2012
Is every democracy destined for the problems of Greece?
In writing Passion & Purpose, my coauthors and I heard a lot about the traits and aspirations of the next generation of leaders. But we also heard a great deal about their concerns. A key anxiety is debt. Not just...
March 13, 2012
While writing our book Jugaad Innovation, we've come across many innovators in the U.S. who are using the jugaad mindset — a frugal, flexible, and feisty approach to take on the country's major socioeconomic issues. Not surprisingly, a significant number of the innovators we met were Millennials, many of whom are cynical about large corporations. According to The Affluence...
