Articles Worth a Look

The end of Pax Britannica

Britain used to be the world’s great power and it’s currency the world’s currency. What happened? Graeme Thompson explains it in this article he published on Engelsberg Ideas. Here’s the link. He says at the beginning, ” A mercantilist, multipolar geopolitical system appears to be emerging from within the liberal world order, destined to replace

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“Disruptive Change- When Trying Harder is Part of the Problem.”

Harvard Business Review, May 2002. Interestingly enough, trying harder is a problem when the business environment changes because of the tendency to do more of the same thing you’ve always done. Typically, those things are not the right things to do anymore. As I’ve written, this corresponds to my own experience doing turnaround work. You

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