This all started with some uninteresting and unoriginal pondering on how we are all getting angrier with each other and how social media is taking much of the blame. I know our underlying political and social schisms have a lot to do with it, along with social media’s power to orchestrate and manipulate opinion. I… Read More
Carillion, complexity and the dawn of the robot CEO?

I don’t follow all the ins and outs (mainly outs, I guess) of the outsourcing trend, but for me, as for many people, the collapse of Carillion gave pause for thought. I was particularly taken by Matthew Vincent’s excellent FT article on why Carillion went into liquidation rather than administration , partly because I actually understood most… Read More