

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
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Panic Is Not a Strategy.
Why Leaders Who Can Make Sense of Chaos Matter More Than Ever. The news is flying at us, but what’s really happening?On Monday evening, 19 January, Beatrice de Graaf and Mart de Kruif appeared on Eva Jinek’ s programme. Whilst viewers were being bombarded with news reports about Greenland, Venezuela and European threats, the historian and the general did what leaders ought to do: they helped us see what was actually happening. No panic. No easy conclusions. Simply: perspec
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