by JAK | Feb 7, 2012 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
As promised I finished reading Jeffrey Sachs – “The Price of Civilization” – Economics and Ethics After the Fall. The book was an easy read but at the end of it left me feeling somewhat underwhelmed. Rebooting the US economic and political...
by JAK | Dec 21, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures
With Christmas coming up time to hit the beach with a book (Southern hemisphere here). We have been through a precarious business year where our faith in the vagaries of the “free market” should have been very considerably challenged although I personally...
by JAK | Feb 25, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures
A few weeks ago the World Economic Forum took place in Davos. NZ has a Jobs Summit this Friday 27th Feb Stewart Wallis from Nef (the new economics foundation) was there (Davos) and made these observations. “People are clearly prepared to listen to ideas that...
by JAK | Nov 20, 2008 | big ideas, general business
One of my late grandmothers lived through the 1929 Depression in New Zealand and that stayed with her all her life. She lived for 90+ years but the memories of those times were never far away and it always seemed like a pivotal moment which shaped a generation...
by JAK | Oct 15, 2008 | big ideas
Following on from the NZ Institute / NZX draft document from Economy on the edge: Swan dive or belly flop? Or as another Jason commented – How can we take this to the next level? A draft strategy for coming out of the crisis stronger -Download Full Document here...
