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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Swine flu, the crisis, and black swans
Twenty-five centuries ago, the Greek dramatist Euripides remarked: “The expected does not happen, it’s the unexpected which comes to pass”. This is indeed often the case, both in the economic and social realm. All of a sudden, unexpected events occur which radically change our outlook and leave profound consequences. Continue reading
Posted in Change, Strategy
Tagged Future, Google, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patterns, Penicillin, Post-it, Viagra, World Bank
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James Bond’s boss and transparency in organizations
Sir John Sawers is the UK’s Permanent Representative at the UN. If we feel so inclined, we can easily find out quite a lot about him: we can view photos of him in bathing trunks, photos with his mother, with the girlfriends of his sons, and consult his own private address. All of this information has not been disclosed by some “dangerous” foreign spy network but by Facebook. Continue reading
