THEFT ON FOUR WHEELS: VOLKSWAGEN’S SUBSCRIPTION TO STUPIDITY
Last year I spent eight months inside Volkswagen in the UK. Not the glamorous EV showrooms you see in commercials, but the commercial vehicle wing—the…
Reimagining the EU: From EEC Roots to a More Transparent, People-Centered Union
The European Union (EU) was born out of a vision for unity and peace. However, many Europeans feel that the experiment has fallen short of…
The slippery slope of digital currency
The European Union (EU) is advancing toward the introduction of a digital euro, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) issued by the European Central Bank…
The Consultants of Swing
When Algorithms Outthink Your Strategy Team: The Spectacular Irrelevance of Today’s Management Consultancies and the elephant in the room that is the future: Imagination. The…
The Quiet Takeover
Ever feel like technology is moving so fast it’s hard to keep up? It’s not just your imagination. There’s a big, but subtle, shift happening…
From Listeners to Builders: Why Community Is the New Currency of Meaning
The Diary of a CEO reaches millions. It tops charts. It travels through earbuds and speakers across continents—from London to Los Angeles, Sydney to Dubai….
The Quality of Life Paradox: How Chasing GDP Growth Costs Us Our Humanity
Risking sounding like a broken record, I once again find myself starting by saying “recently I moved to Bulgaria from Sweden” – but bear with…
Navigating the Nuclear Abyss
The threat of nuclear war looms larger today than it has in decades, with global powers modernizing their arsenals, escalating rhetoric, and eroding the arms…
The Death of Wonder: How Innovation Events and Concert Halls Became Factories of Mediocrity
Once, There Was Awe There was a time when being invited as a keynote speaker felt like being called into the agora—when the invitation was…
The Great Simplification – The IKEA Problem Killing Business—And Apple’s (potential) $100 Billion Solution
It’s 9 PM on a Sunday. You’re the creative director at a boutique agency, and tomorrow you onboard three new hires. Tonight, you’re setting up…
Time to reskill, or sell up and move to southern Italy
As we approach yet another downward trending economic period, the potential for war (both of the hot and trade kinds) and our propensity to innovate…
Trump’s new tariffs salvo and the crossroads of parallel revolutions
We’ve been taught in school that first came the Agricultural Revolution, then the Industrial one, followed by the Digital, and now we talk about the…