Entrepreneurial Statecraft Gets the Goods
It doesn’t mean that governments have no role to play—quite the contrary. But my overall impression is that we’ve witnessed a sharp reversal in who has the capacity to explore, discover, and deliver. In the past, only governments could break the constraints and pull it off at a large scale. Now it looks like governments (at least in the West) are s
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
The panel members saw themselves as above and apart from fearful, conflictual politics. Their politics was technocratic, dedicated to discovering right answers that were knowable and out there, and just needed to be analyzed and spreadsheeted into being. Their politics had borrowed from the business world the pleasantness and mutualism of the win-w
... See moreAnand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
These are just a few of the ways that the pure chemistry of ideas mutates into new compounds through exposure to the oxygen of real societies, patterns which mean that the originators of ideas can rarely know what will happen to them. Nor is there any easy way to situate imaginative ideas in time—to know whether they might bear fruit in a decade, a
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
For any business person, "Me too' won't do" feels right intuitively. Action, creation, risk-these lie at the root of invention. Business value does not start with bloodless analytics. Passion, monomania and domain mastery fuel invention and so are central. The compelling continuing contribution of founders demonstrates this. Planning rare
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