Good News from the Base of the Pyramid
“Sustainability makes good business sense, and we’re all on the same team at the end of the day. That’s the truth about the human condition” – Paul Polman …
“Sustainability makes good business sense, and we’re all on the same team at the end of the day. That’s the truth about the human condition” – Paul Polman …
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself” – Henry Ford In 2010, my career took me to the Middle East, and I lived …
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” – attributed to Peter Drucker A 2021 Freakonomics podcast by Stephen Dubner quotes Vikas Mehrotra, a finance professor at the University of Alberta on the “Cobra …
“I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: ‘Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right’” – Vince …
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” – Mary Shelley A post of mine from 2020 related the unfortunate story of the Vasa, a large and expensive …
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” – Henry Ford In the foreword to my first book, I described an interview in Houston that led …
“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” – Voltaire Inevitably, while writing this blog, I have a coffee in front of me. Over the last few years, in the …
“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses” – George Washington Carver Several years ago, while based in Texas, I was …
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller Because innovation it’s not just about having a great idea – because it …
“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to …