

Europe doesn’t have a money problem. Europe has a unicorn leadership problem.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves. Europe pours billions into innovation, produces weighty reports on competitiveness and opens one start-up hub after another. And yet our best talent leaves for the United States. Our most promising scale-ups get snapped up by American buyers. We keep playing catch-up in AI, defence tech and biotech. The question is not whether we have a problem. The question is whether we are prepared to be honest about what that problem actually is.The diagnosis
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The forgotten art of the leader who actually thinks
Mark Carney , the Prime Minister of Canada, wrote his much-discussed speech for the latest WEF gathering in Davos himself. That’s news, sadly enough… Stephen Bush of the Financial Times recently devoted a column to it. His observation: the Canadian Prime Minister turns out to be better not only at central banking, campaigning and ice hockey than Bush himself, he can also write. Annoying. But Bush makes a more fundamental point. A point I see confirmed time and again in m
Feb 20









